00:00This is the fifth edition of Nisau's India Youth Leadership Conclave.
00:06We bring you up with one of the most followed philosophers of the world.
00:11He's the founder of the Prashant Adwait Foundation
00:14and one of the world's most prominent voices on Vedanta,
00:18climate responsibility and animal rights.
00:21He's been named one of the most influential vegan of 2022 by PETA India.
00:26He has spoken at universities, he's spoken at parliaments,
00:30and international climate conferences across the world.
00:33Today, he's the most followed spiritual teacher of the planet
00:37with more than 60 million subscribers,
00:39over 160 books on the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads.
00:43Acharya Prashant.
01:01What I loved is you said some of you are trying to be like Arjuna,
01:06but actually when we, he says, we are more like the real world.
01:10Because we choose self-preservation.
01:13Because we remain in our agonizing loops,
01:18even after struggling and stumbling so many times.
01:23Detachment is the facilitator.
01:25Detachment is not the brake.
01:27Detachment is the engine.
01:28Detachment is the single source of all true excellence.
01:32You must ask yourself, please.
01:34You're in a coffin.
01:35You're barely alive.
01:36You've got a few hours to live.
01:37How does this all apply?
01:39If I'm operating from the ego,
01:41half my energy or maybe more of it,
01:43some fraction of it,
01:44would flow towards defending not the body,
01:48but the narrative.
01:50My six is your nine.
01:53There is no golden source of truth.
01:55The moment it is my truth,
01:57it is not truth anymore.
01:59So what is it that makes us special
02:02and therefore so violent?
02:04That's the thing called the ego.
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