00:00What do you think of politicians?
00:06You mean the politicians down there, all of them?
00:12That's what I think of them.
00:13They are the common man and the common man is the politician.
00:18I do not think of politicians as a separate category.
00:22Shri Krishna is a politician, is he not?
00:24When he goes to Duryodhan, is he not going as a political ambassador of goodwill and peace?
00:31So politics can be wonderful.
00:33And at the same time, there is Shakuni.
00:35Shakuni too is a politician.
00:36So what do I say of the politician?
00:38Each of us is playing politics.
00:41Where there is no self-knowledge, all politics becomes dry and deprived of love.
00:49And politics could be sublime.
00:51Politics could go even beyond statesmanship.
00:54Rajajanak in Ashtavakr Gita continues to run the affairs of his state even after conversing with Sej Ashtavakr.
01:04So politics is not at all a dirty thing.
01:08Nothing, nothing at all is good, bad, right, wrong, clean, dirty, pure, profane.
01:15What matters is the one within.
01:17Politics is as noble, as wonderful or as fallen a business as any part of common life.
01:26If the one sitting within is at the right place and of the right size, politics is noble.
01:32Where there is no self-knowledge, all politics becomes dry and deprived of love.
01:44Then politics becomes another name for separation and all kinds of childish tricks.
01:51Trade, bargaining.
01:54That's what goes in the name of politics then.
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