00:00Acharya Prashant is a philosopher and author of best-selling books.
00:03He is ranked in the top 20 of the Watkins 2026 list of the 100 most spiritually influential living people.
00:10He has impressive international reach with over 100 million followers online from all across the globe.
00:15His teachings on ecological responsibility and climate awareness earned him India's most impactful environmentalism.
00:21Jonathan Birch is a professor of philosophy here at the LSE and director of the Jeremy Collis Centre for Animal
00:27Sentience.
00:27His work was honoured with the Philip Leverhulme Prize.
00:30In 2021, he led a review of the evidence for sentience in sacrophilipod mollusks and decopod crustaceans.
00:37Please join me in welcoming Jonathan and Acharya this evening for a cross-cultural discussion on animal consciousness in the
00:43environment, insights from science and Vedanta.
00:46Well, what you're asking for is so demanding.
00:49You know, that to keep every, all of the world's problems in your mind at once is this kind of,
00:53we don't have the capacity to truly do that.
00:56Thank you for raising that, but I'm saying you keep the entire world out of your mind.
01:01Let the mind be light.
01:03You look at yourself and that will very naturally, very smoothly ensure that you have the right relationship with the
01:10world.
01:10When the kid is born, the kid is not born to learn how to behave with everything that exists in
01:16the universe.
01:17The kid comes out of the universe.
01:19The kid is born out of this soil.
01:20The kid knows how to relate.
01:22Give the kid a rabbit and the kid starts playing.
01:26The kid doesn't want to strangulate the rabbit.
01:29That doesn't happen.
01:30The kid already knows.
01:31So you don't have to learn how to behave with that, that, that, that.
01:34You don't have to solve the world's problems.
01:37You have to withdraw from being the one who creates problems.
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