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Full Video on Youtube : Willpower is a useless medicine for a non-existent disease || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

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00:00Have you heard a story of these two friends who had a lot of willpower?
00:03So they were standing at a place and one of them said,
00:06you know, I want to buy some land and start farming.
00:09The other one said, I too will do the same.
00:11The first one says, good, good.
00:13That's such a nice thing that the two of us will still be together.
00:17Our fields will be alongside each other.
00:19The first one said, yeah, that sounds so nice.
00:22But don't you allow your animals to come into my field?
00:25The first one said, yes, that must not happen.
00:27But you see, animals are animals.
00:29How long can one control them?
00:30Sometimes it may happen that one cow or one buffalo or one goat
00:34may accidentally stray into your fields.
00:36This first one says, no, no, no.
00:38Even accidentally that should not happen.
00:40I don't like this.
00:41He said, you see, this is my field.
00:44And he makes a small field on the ground using his big toe.
00:48And this is your field.
00:50And the boundary is clear.
00:52Now why must your animal come into my side?
00:55He says, but friend, you don't understand.
00:57You see, this is the field, yes.
00:59This is the animal.
01:00And he makes a dot on the field.
01:02This is the animal, yes.
01:03Now see, this animal is going into your field.
01:05He says, what can be done?
01:06The animal is animal.
01:07He says, if your animal will come here, I'll kill it.
01:10He says, but the animal has already gone.
01:12Can you kill it?
01:13He says, he takes two deep breaths.
01:15And he says, now your buffalo is going to be slaughtered.
01:20And he kills the buffalo.
01:22And then the two of them obviously fight each other, hit each other.
01:28And then the magistrate asks them, what were you doing?
01:31This one says, I didn't want to kill.
01:34The magistrate says, I know you.
01:36You are not a violent man at all.
01:38How can you kill an animal?
01:39He said, it was very, very difficult for me to kill that animal.
01:42But I generated a lot of willpower and killed it.
01:46So magistrate asks the policeman, where is the animal?
01:51Which field?
01:53Is that we will think about?
01:58Right now there is no field and no animal.
02:01There is only willpower.
02:03What are you killing using your willpower?
02:05What are you overcoming?
02:06There is nothing to overcome.
02:08But we all need willpower.
02:10And there are so many gurus around who will tell you how to wake your willpower up.
02:13Willpower.
02:14For what?
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