00:00During his Oxford campus tour with students, Acharya Prashant explains why genuine virtue is spontaneous, never performed.
00:08I must be nice, I must be virtuous. It's almost like etiquette being taught to a kid who does not
00:17know what it's all about.
00:19But you are still teaching the kid some etiquette, may I come in and all that.
00:22That's what adults also graduate to practice in a more sophisticated way.
00:27You have to be very free of it. Real virtue is a very, very unknowable thing.
00:33It comes from nowhere and then just disappears. You cannot put it in a register, right?
00:40You cannot know it in advance. So this would be an example of virtue.
00:45Now let me demonstrate it, display it. You cannot display it.
00:49And if you are displaying it, then that's egoic virtue and that's no virtue at all.
00:54True virtue is something that arises unknown, even to the virtuous one.
01:06Maybe somebody else can point it out and say, this was a great exhibition of virtue.
01:11Or what you just did is an example of top class virtue.
01:19But if you say, I am here to be virtuous or this is virtue, then you are performing virtue.
01:25If someone is so obviously virtuous, even I would be skeptical.
01:30Then you are just demonstrating virtue. And that is no virtue at all.
01:36That is a great exhibition of virtue.
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01:39And that is justición
01:39Now why don't you look like it?
01:43It might be cool for you.
01:43And to know with your friends, you stick out on a property.
01:43You're so passionate about your gefunden.
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