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00:00:00The British Parliament, for more than seven centuries, it has stood at the centre of one of the world's oldest
00:00:07parliamentary traditions.
00:00:09A place where ideas have been tested, convictions defended and decisions of an international consequence made.
00:00:16On the 12th of June, 2026, the Lord Nagraju graciously received Acharya Prashant and accompanied him through the historic halls
00:00:26of Parliament.
00:00:34Acharya Prashant was invited as chief guest to speak at the House of Lords in the British Parliament on the
00:00:40theme, Indian Roots, Global Wings.
00:00:43Today we have Acharya Prashant, a philosopher, author of acclaimed bestsellers including Truth Without Apology and Karma.
00:00:51Move from your darkness away towards light.
00:00:54That's the movement India has encouraged the entire globe to have.
00:01:00Ranked among the top 20 in the Watkins list of the 100 most spiritually influential living people.
00:01:06He is followed online by over 100 million people across the globe, making him one of the most widely followed
00:01:13philosophical voices in the world.
00:01:15Roots, in the pure Indian sense, refer to the question Koham, the question, the matter of self-enquiry.
00:01:26Who am I?
00:01:27He has devoted himself to the mass-based education of the self and his teaching program now has over 150
00:01:34,000 regular enrolled students from all walks of life.
00:01:37He is a columnist for leading newspapers and a recipient of prestigious honors, including the Outstanding Contribution to Nation Development
00:01:44Award and Peter India's Most Influential Vegan of the Year.
00:01:48His work has taken him to some of the world's most respected academic institutions, including recent talks at Oxford, Cambridge,
00:01:57the London School of Economics, UCL and Queen Mary University of London,
00:02:01where he has spoken on themes of consciousness, ecological responsibility and global challenges.
00:02:07Along the way, he has shared the stage in landmark dialogues with some of the foremost minds of our age.
00:02:13Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, the Cambridge-educated biologist.
00:02:17Rupert Spira, a leading international voice on non-duality.
00:02:20Professor Jonathan Birch of the London School of Economics.
00:02:24Professor Lars Chitka of Queen Mary University, the world's leading expert on insect cognition.
00:02:30Professor Steve Fleming of UCL, a leading authority on metacognition.
00:02:34Dr. Melanie Joy, author and former professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts.
00:02:41After listening, Surpreed葉 by M eyes эпilyar and Sathantically High Justice in Mamров families.
00:02:51Hosting the occasion, Barry Gardner,
00:02:54Member of Parliament and one of the longest serving voices in the House of Commons,
00:02:58joined Acharya Prashant in a ceremonial ribbon cutting.
00:03:25How we must be separate from the fruits of our actions, but still to act.
00:03:31Can I force you to acknowledge what I'm saying?
00:03:34So who am I to decide the result of my action?
00:03:37Namaskar Acharya Ji.
00:03:39As a politician is my karta.
00:03:41Is to deliver what my political ambition.
00:03:46Legislation won't survive.
00:03:47So basically you require something here.
00:03:50And that something cannot be the product of a structure.
00:03:53That cannot come from a method.
00:03:55That cannot come from a principle.
00:03:59Now, now Europe is listening.
00:04:01Cambridge and Oxford and LSE are listening.
00:04:06When will India listen?
00:04:14It is a moment of great honor for us all, as we welcome the chief guest of today's gathering, Acharya
00:04:20Prashant.
00:04:25Mr. Barry Gardner, the host of today's event, is one of the longest serving voices in the House of Commons
00:04:32and a leading figure in the climate parliament.
00:04:34He's also a devoted friend of India and a recipient of the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honor.
00:04:42It is my privilege to invite our chief guest, Acharya Prashant, to perform the ceremonial ribbon cutting.
00:04:49And to share in this moment, may I also invite our host, Mr. Barry Gardner, to join him.
00:04:55Ladies and gentlemen, as the ribbon is cut, please join me in marking this occasion with a warm round of
00:05:01applause.
00:05:06Distinguished guests, please welcome a rare voice uniting India's timeless wisdom with the modern mind.
00:05:13Today's chief guest, here to deliver his keynote address on Indian Roots Global Wings, Acharya Prashant.
00:05:27The topic for the afternoon is beautiful. Indian Roots Global Wings. Indian Roots Global Wings.
00:05:42And because beautiful things charm us, so we tend to nod in approval instantaneously.
00:06:00So I thought I would begin with that, because it's important to wait for a while and dig a little
00:06:09deeper into quick approvals.
00:06:12I will start with the topic for the afternoon rather the evening this day.
00:06:20So when we say Indian Roots, Indian Roots, that sounds very nice, very nice to Indians and very familiar to
00:06:36those familiar with Indians.
00:06:37And usually the connotation is festivals, culture, food, music, aroma, and garments, and typically Indian values.
00:06:57And that's what we understand to be roots. Right?
00:07:06But if we are talking of Indian roots, then it's better that the word root itself is defined in the
00:07:18Indian way.
00:07:20And in the Indian way, the word root does not refer that much to culture. It rather refers to clarity.
00:07:34Indian roots are not about how we set up our plate and how we respect our elders and how we
00:07:42gather and the family values and how we celebrate our festivals.
00:07:46All that is fine. But when we say Indian roots, there is the risk that we limit ourselves just to
00:07:56the cultural aspects.
00:07:58And that's what I seek to address in the little time I have this evening. Roots in the pure Indian
00:08:08sense refer to the question Koham.
00:08:14The question, the question, the matter of self-inquiry. Who am I?
00:08:20That's the root of everything that is distinguished as Indian. Why do I say that is the root?
00:08:29Because every meaningful contribution of India to the world is actually downstream of that root.
00:08:43To make it a more organic phrase is actually an upward sprouting from that root.
00:08:52It could be Vedanta, it could be Mahatma Buddha, it could be Sant Kabir, or it could be anything that
00:09:02India values truly in itself and the world regards India for.
00:09:08It actually comes from that one inquiry, inquiry into the self. And that is the root of everything truly Indian.
00:09:21So, yes, especially when you are abroad, there is that sense of nostalgia, there is that craving, sometimes that desperate
00:09:33feeling for connectedness.
00:09:35And then the first things that come to our mind as people of Indian origin residing abroad, the first thing
00:09:43that comes to our mind is the cultural aspect.
00:09:47We miss the sights and the sounds and the familiar behaviors and the tastes.
00:09:54Yes, all that is wonderful. But India, true Indianness runs much deeper than that.
00:10:02It is less about culture and more about clarity. It is about ruthless self-inquiry.
00:10:08Do I know myself? Am I assuming my roots? Have I really gone into them?
00:10:15So, inquiry into roots is what rootedness would actually mean.
00:10:22Right? And then there is the next part, the little phrase to words that follow, global wings.
00:10:33Now, seen in the usual way or in superficial way, global wings might sound like ambition. Global wings might sound
00:10:56like expansion of what you take yourself to be.
00:11:04But if the topic starts with India, even these two words, global wings must mean something truly Indian.
00:11:16And in the Indian sense, it is not ambition that takes wings. One rather requires freedom to take wings.
00:11:28And ambition is not necessarily an expression of freedom. One could be inwardly quite caged.
00:11:40And yet, externally, outwardly, one could be flying business class to six continents.
00:11:48That is ambition, but not freedom. One could be running very hard on the x-axis, the horizontal plane, on
00:11:56a treadmill, sweating it out in a big way.
00:12:00And the dashboard, the meter there is indicating you have covered x kilometers.
00:12:05But the fact is, one has hardly moved an inch.
00:12:11So, that is not really the Indian way.
00:12:14And those who are venturing out of their homeland, flying across oceans to seek education and then growth as persons
00:12:28and as professionals.
00:12:29It is very important that we understand what it really means to take wings.
00:12:38Because yes, you have come here and you want more from life.
00:12:44But in coming here, here is a question I am inviting all of us to ask.
00:12:50Are we flying or are we just running fast? That is a very important question to ask.
00:12:57The difference is, in running fast, you might be fast, you might be ambitious, you might even be accelerating.
00:13:06But you still stick to your own dimension. And that is not freedom. That is not freedom.
00:13:13Real freedom, which is coming from wings, and that is something that you gave me as something to speak on.
00:13:23Real freedom lies in investigating yourself and seeing where your bondages are.
00:13:31Isn't it obvious that we cannot talk of wings or freedom without having first seen very honestly, very keenly.
00:13:42Where our chains and the cuffs and the fetters are.
00:13:47If I do not know the ways in which I am held captive, the word freedom remains meaningless and rather
00:13:57absurd.
00:13:59So, that is what India invites us to do.
00:14:03India says, yes, first of all, go into yourself. Go into yourself.
00:14:10Figure out where your limits are.
00:14:14And in figuring those limits out, you will find that the limits do not survive the seeing, the inquiry.
00:14:24So, we are talking of movement.
00:14:27Here is a beautiful verse from the Upanishads that talks of movement.
00:14:32It says, asato ma jyotiragamaya.
00:14:41From asat, from all that, which is false. Asato ma satgamaya.
00:14:47Then, tamaso ma jyotiragamaya.
00:14:56So, you see there is movement here. And you too want movement. And that's why you are talking of wings.
00:15:03Wings have a relationship with movement.
00:15:05You know? So, that's the movement that India has encouraged Indians and the entire globe to have.
00:15:16Move from your darkness away towards light.
00:15:22Your movement cannot be an expansion of your darkness across continents.
00:15:26And that is very much possible. That is very much possible.
00:15:31Similarly, move from all that which threatens you and kills you inwardly, daily.
00:15:38The fears, the old hurts that we carry, the insults we might be so apprehensive of, the insecurities.
00:15:48Right? So, move from that towards that which is not vulnerable to random movements outside of yourself.
00:15:59That's what India invites you to move as and move into.
00:16:06Right? And since, since I have quoted from, from the Upanishad, something else comes to my mind.
00:16:16The Upanishad say, uttishthat jagrat prape varannibodhat.
00:16:24Right? So, so arise, awake and approach those who might help you learn.
00:16:33Learning is the purpose. Learning is what any movement must be for.
00:16:39Whether it's the movement involving your flight from India to UK or the entire macro movement that we call as
00:16:47life.
00:16:48That is the purpose. That is the purpose.
00:16:51So, my, my, my responsibility here is to ensure that these, these beautiful words that we have.
00:17:04And the, the Indian relation, the Indian roots that we have.
00:17:09We go deeply into them. We, we understand what real Indianness is about.
00:17:13And if we understand that, then, uh, it, we'll be giving the world satisfaction rather than striving.
00:17:22The world already has enough of striving.
00:17:25What India can offer is something more and something beyond that.
00:17:30And that's the message this afternoon. Thank you. Thank you, all of you. Thank you.
00:17:40Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. It was absolutely brilliant. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you
00:17:44so much.
00:17:45Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for bringing, you know, light into darkness.
00:17:53Thank you so much. My pleasure.
00:17:54That's the, that's the main point that I took. My pleasure, my pleasure. Yeah. Thank you.
00:17:58It was always an insightful moment. Can I get a picture?
00:18:05It's lovely to meet you. I follow spirituality and Hinduism a lot, so it's pretty good to know.
00:18:15I'm Uday Aacharji. Very nice, very nice to meet you. I've seen your spiritual level, you know, what you're going.
00:18:23It's fantastic. And you are one of the most spiritual leaders to take the world to tomorrow.
00:18:29With the AI quantum all that is going on.
00:18:31The Lord Nagaraj is one of the youngest members ever to take a seat in the House of Lords.
00:18:38A distinguished parliamentarian, technologist and founder of AI Policy Labs.
00:18:44Aacharji, a pie. Next we go around.
00:18:47The diplomatic, well, whatever you call it, the diplomatic interaction.
00:18:51Jahangi 1612.
00:18:55And most importantly, a watch was presented to him.
00:19:01And that was, that proved to be the difference between Indian engineering and the British engineering of the time.
00:19:10Well, you know, more than us.
00:19:13You know, the argument is better than us.
00:19:16The argument is better than us.
00:19:23I know.
00:19:39Shall we both have a photo of one first and then we can all have it?
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00:25:15But ultimately I have zero control over whether or not you acknowledge what I am saying, right?
00:25:21And why should I bother?
00:25:24I am continuing the same example because you are continuing the question.
00:25:28Why should I bother?
00:25:29And if I do start bothering, won't I be compromising with the truth of what I have to say?
00:25:37If I start bothering about how you would receive my words, would I still receive the same man?
00:25:43Would words still come from the same source?
00:25:47Or would they be diluted?
00:25:49Would they be customised to suit customer needs?
00:25:57Do you want bespoke truth?
00:25:59Do you?
00:26:01Do you want truth tailor-fitted to meet your expectations so that you can feel good and optimistic about the
00:26:07universe in the next century?
00:26:11You graduated your bachelor's from IIT and then you got your master's from IIM.
00:26:16What made you pursue your journey in philosophy?
00:26:22What actually changed in you?
00:26:25To leave that, and I also got to know that you got into UPSC as well.
00:26:30That's a humongous task to do.
00:26:33You literally take all the boxes for an Indian child.
00:26:36You got into IIT, you got into IIM, you got into UPSC.
00:26:40What made the switch in the shortest way possible?
00:26:44If you could just tell me, that would be fantastic.
00:26:52Which river is this?
00:26:54Thames.
00:26:55Thames.
00:26:56Can you name a few points it flows through?
00:27:01Lots of points, right?
00:27:03So, what changed in Thames?
00:27:06What particular flash of enlightenment or what particular strike of realisation occurred to it that it moved from A to
00:27:16B?
00:27:18And then from B to C?
00:27:19And then to D?
00:27:21Nothing.
00:27:23Ganga is my staple example.
00:27:25But here, we have the Thames here, so it would have been disrespectful.
00:27:28You could use Ganga.
00:27:31So, what has changed in Ganga?
00:27:34What new realisation came to her when she moved from Rishikesh to Haridwar, and then to Kanpur, then to Priyag,
00:27:44and then to Patna, and then to Bengal?
00:27:47What changed in her?
00:27:48Nothing.
00:27:49It's one flow, one journey, and one centre.
00:27:54Right?
00:27:56Just that, when you are alive, when you are in this body, this is a universe of change, of continuous
00:28:04motion.
00:28:05Therefore, one day you would be found in an IIT, the next day in an IIM, then in a corporate
00:28:11job, then as an entrepreneur, sometimes as a teacher, sometimes as a manager, sometimes on the tennis court.
00:28:18The centre has remained the same.
00:28:20And what has that centre said?
00:28:23That centre has said, you know, I don't know, and I can't deceive myself by claiming that I do.
00:28:31That's the centre.
00:28:33That's a centre that has found it difficult to deceive itself.
00:28:38That's a centre that has sometimes even tried on purpose, being dishonest, and not enjoyed it.
00:28:48So, how do I settle in a tech role, for example?
00:28:51After IIT, that software was coming up in a big way.
00:28:55And as with most of my peers from my batch, I landed a software job.
00:29:04How do, how do I convince myself to stay there when I am seeing that there is much more that
00:29:13needs to be done and addressed within myself, within others?
00:29:17And I am not liking the shape of the planet, I am not liking the way people lead their lives,
00:29:22I am not liking my own internal situation.
00:29:24How do I convince myself to now pursue a tech career?
00:29:27Same thing happened after my MBA.
00:29:30How do I convince?
00:29:31And I actually worked in three organisations post my MBA.
00:29:34Not that I came to quick and rash conclusions.
00:29:38I was giving everything due opportunity.
00:29:41But how do I force myself into unseeing things that I was seeing, into unhearing things that I could clearly
00:29:51hear?
00:29:51And the centre has remained the same.
00:29:54I have kept moving on.
00:29:56Charaiveti, Charaiveti, that's Vedanta.
00:29:58And I am here tomorrow.
00:29:59I don't know.
00:30:02The Ganga might meet the ocean at last.
00:30:07Or maybe the Ganga can discover that the ocean was within her all the while.
00:30:14Namaste, Acharya.
00:30:15I am a big fan.
00:30:16So my question today is, it's actually continuation to the previous question the ma'am asked about consumption and how
00:30:27you answered it.
00:30:28So mine is a bit different thing.
00:30:30It's about consumption on the online content.
00:30:33So we consume a lot of garbage every day.
00:30:38Why I say it as a garbage is, like, you know, I'll give you an example.
00:30:44I watch a lot of India-Pakistan related stuff.
00:30:49And, you know, that goes in a different direction sometimes.
00:30:54And I'm interested in it, very much interested in it to watch, because I'm a patriot.
00:31:02But, same time, I get stressed watching that.
00:31:06Not India-Pakistan.
00:31:08I will not say it as a stress.
00:31:10But other things, which come as a, you know, some algorithm pushes things to me.
00:31:16And that gives me stress.
00:31:19You know, how to avoid it?
00:31:21Or, should we do something about it?
00:31:24The stress is coming this moment.
00:31:28In that moment, it is pure dopamine.
00:31:32Would you ask this question?
00:31:35The moment of the scroll?
00:31:39No, you won't ask this question.
00:31:41In fact, even if the opportunity to ask this question or receive an answer is there in that moment.
00:31:45Let's say you are scrolling up.
00:31:47And one of my videos comes up.
00:31:49I'm all over there.
00:31:51Right?
00:31:51And that video contains the very answer to this specific question.
00:31:57Would you still watch?
00:31:59Unlikely.
00:32:00Unlikely.
00:32:01Because in that moment, that matter, whatever it is.
00:32:06Right?
00:32:07India-Pakistan or whatever you said.
00:32:09Garbage.
00:32:09Whatever it is.
00:32:10It is not garbage to you.
00:32:12It is food.
00:32:14Delectable delicacy.
00:32:15It is in that moment.
00:32:17It's only later on when you get that upset stomach and an upset life.
00:32:22That you say, oh, it was garbage.
00:32:24Later on.
00:32:25In hindsight.
00:32:26And everybody is wise in hindsight.
00:32:31Retrospectively, we are all philosophers.
00:32:34All philosophers.
00:32:36The point is how to avoid that.
00:32:38In that moment.
00:32:40In that moment.
00:32:42I mean, I do chess.
00:32:44In that moment.
00:32:46And remember, in that moment.
00:32:50Nothing can change.
00:32:51Because that moment is an extension of all your moments.
00:32:57The inner actor is the same irrespective of the moment.
00:33:03So, your query in itself is self-defeating.
00:33:06What you are saying is, I want to change a particular segment of life.
00:33:09It's 1 a.m.
00:33:10It's 2 a.m.
00:33:11And I am consuming garbage.
00:33:13And that's what I want to address.
00:33:14That cannot be addressed.
00:33:16Because you want to keep all other sectors of your life unaddressed.
00:33:20You are assuming as if the disease lies only in a corner.
00:33:25It does not lie in a corner.
00:33:26It lies at the center.
00:33:28That moment at 1 a.m.
00:33:31Is simply a very naked expression of all that you have been throughout the 24 hours of the day.
00:33:39And that is determined by the center you operate from.
00:33:43Therefore, you will need to be vigilant of yourself continuously.
00:33:49You will need to watch your motives.
00:33:51You will need to watch your desires.
00:33:52Your relationships.
00:33:54Your beliefs.
00:33:55Your hopes.
00:33:57Get this?
00:33:58And when you do that.
00:34:00Even without your knowledge.
00:34:02The stuff that you do at night will change.
00:34:05Night is inseparable from the day, sir.
00:34:11Be vigilant throughout.
00:34:13And then your nights will change.
00:34:15Everything will change.
00:34:17There are no sectoral solutions.
00:34:20There are.
00:34:21Otherwise, what you get is, you know.
00:34:24Band-aid for the forearm.
00:34:26When the problem is in the heart.
00:34:30That won't help.
00:34:31That can console though.
00:34:33But I am not here to offer consolations from this podium.
00:34:36Am I?
00:34:36No.
00:34:41In the last few years, in the last 3 to 4 years especially, we have seen a lot of Indian
00:34:45students, they come here with a lot of dreams and baggages and all that.
00:34:50When they couldn't achieve that, you know, we have seen very unfortunate situations that,
00:34:54you know, that they shouldn't be taking their steps.
00:34:57What happens next is secondary.
00:34:59But how do we or what do we tell the students about the taking the extreme step?
00:35:08And what is the message that you could give for the Indian students here in the UK, which
00:35:12are like huge numbers?
00:35:13A lot of youth, you know, do follow you.
00:35:15So, it's a very critical question and the message that will come from you and hopefully
00:35:20there will be change.
00:35:27Nothing in life is bigger than life itself.
00:35:32That's it.
00:35:33All these are objects and objects, they move in a very random way.
00:35:43We like to assert that things are happening as per our plan or sometimes our divine plan.
00:35:50We like to feel and imagine that way.
00:35:54But that's not the existential reality.
00:35:58The thing is that things move quite randomly and those are all things in life.
00:36:05They are all the objects to ego.
00:36:08They appear important only because there is the anticipation, the hope that a few of those
00:36:16objects will be able to plug the inner hollow, will be able to satisfy you thoroughly.
00:36:23So, there is that hope that one raises from those objects.
00:36:26And when those objects are not obtained, then one feels as if everything is lost from life.
00:36:37The uncomfortable and also amusing fact is, even if you had attained that object, probably
00:36:48you would have remained equally miserable.
00:36:51So, there is no opportunity loss as such.
00:36:54There is nothing much to regret.
00:36:57Right?
00:36:59Irrespective of whatever object you are looking at, they are just things.
00:37:02The little, little parts of this vast universe.
00:37:07Yes, we set expectations.
00:37:08We feel if I get that, then I will be internally fulfilled.
00:37:13If I reach there, then such great things will happen in life.
00:37:21Look at all those things you have already attained.
00:37:24Have they set you free?
00:37:26Or are you still carrying the same hollow?
00:37:31And if all the previous accomplishments have left you at a place where you are still wanting more,
00:37:39why regret now not attaining what you want to attain next?
00:37:44Because you haven't always failed.
00:37:47Nobody has always failed.
00:37:49All of us do succeed in attaining the object of our desire at some point or the other.
00:37:55You try ten times, you try with ten objects at least once you succeed.
00:37:58Right?
00:37:59So, what has that success given you that now you are bemoaning your failure?
00:38:05One can bemoan failures only if first of all, one is living in delusion about the successes.
00:38:15Right?
00:38:15As if successes have been really successful, when successes have not succeeded, when you
00:38:23didn't succeed in your successes, the redeeming part is you haven't failed in your failures.
00:38:29So, don't get depressed.
00:38:31You haven't failed.
00:38:32But that to be accepted demands that you first accept that you haven't succeeded in your successes.
00:38:39If you will keep consoling yourself and patting yourself on the back, oh, I've had huge successes,
00:38:48then you will be forced to regret your failures as well.
00:38:56So, when the successes are hollow, the failures are equally hollow.
00:39:02So, don't get desperate and don't take any kind of extreme or even semi-extreme measure.
00:39:08No need.
00:39:11How can we balance materialistic success and inner peace without compromising?
00:39:23Materialistic success does not come at the cost of inner peace.
00:39:30So, I was discussing the Isha Vasya Upanishad at Oxford and these two verses, they were just
00:39:41so potent and so very revealing.
00:39:46The very two verses, first two verses.
00:39:49So, first one says that you can consume as much as you want to, but with renunciation, renunciation
00:40:06of ignorance, which translates to you can consume and there is no limit as such, but with wisdom.
00:40:16Let your consumption come from wisdom.
00:40:18When you talk of material success, you are basically talking of being successful in consuming more.
00:40:24So, the Upanishad is granting you a full license.
00:40:35Consume, fine.
00:40:36If that's what you want, consume.
00:40:37But consume with wisdom.
00:40:39No morality attached to material success or material consumption.
00:40:44Go ahead.
00:40:45But if you are consuming in your darkness, the consumption is wasteful, not for moral reasons,
00:40:52but because that consumption is failing in giving you the result that you desire.
00:41:00You don't consume for the sake of consumption, you consume for the sake of fulfillment, right?
00:41:06Nobody consumes or nobody wants material because material is good.
00:41:11We want material because material gives us the hope of fulfillment.
00:41:17But if you approach material, the entire universe is material, the body is material, everything is material here.
00:41:23But if you approach material from inner blindness, from darkness, then you get nothing.
00:41:32And even the material is destroyed.
00:41:34You can approach the tree and hack it down.
00:41:36And think that hacking down the tree will give you something.
00:41:39You can burn the entire planet down.
00:41:42And still you will remain internally hungry.
00:41:45So, you don't have to balance.
00:41:46It's not an either or paradigm.
00:41:51The whole thing is different.
00:41:53It's about something upstream and something downstream.
00:41:58Wisdom is upstream of everything.
00:42:03Wisdom is the glacier.
00:42:06And from that, there is an entire stream of life.
00:42:09And that's what the Upanishads are teaching.
00:42:12Let the entire stream of life flow from there and that includes your material consumption also.
00:42:18Be wise in your consumption.
00:42:19That's all.
00:42:20You don't have to suppress consumption because balancing is some kind of suppression.
00:42:24Okay, not 100%, 50% only.
00:42:27Rationed consumption.
00:42:28No, no, limited consumption.
00:42:30No, no, be a good girl.
00:42:32Not two apples, just one apple.
00:42:33No, not four cars, but only two and a half.
00:42:36No, not that way.
00:42:38No, no, no.
00:42:39You can have 20 cars.
00:42:41If that's what arises out of your wisdom, chances are it won't.
00:42:48But if it does, proceed.
00:42:50If it does, proceed.
00:42:52You can have 20 cars.
00:42:53You can have 50 apples.
00:42:55You don't have to limit yourself.
00:43:00You don't have to sanction yourself.
00:43:03You don't have to draw boundaries of virtuosity or morality.
00:43:09You don't have to appear good according to some external scriptural standards.
00:43:16No, you don't have to.
00:43:16You can do whatever.
00:43:18The second verse, I referred to that.
00:43:19What does it say?
00:43:21Oh, you live for 100 years.
00:43:23You live for 100 years.
00:43:27And keep acting.
00:43:29But that action must again arise from your wisdom.
00:43:33Live for 100 years.
00:43:35Consume for 100 years.
00:43:37You know what it says about action?
00:43:40It says, action should be such that the result of action leaves no mark upon you.
00:43:47Does not smear you.
00:43:49Which means you should not be thinking about the fruit of action.
00:43:54Let your action arise spontaneously.
00:43:57And keep acting and keep living.
00:44:00Keep consuming.
00:44:01Just don't expect that consumption can give you anything fantastic.
00:44:06No, it won't.
00:44:07After that, see, material consumption is one thing.
00:44:10When we consume, it is psychological, not material.
00:44:14You are using the material for gratification, psychological.
00:44:19Material added to material will yield more material, which is fine.
00:44:25But material added to mind will not yield more satisfaction.
00:44:30This is dimensional mismatch.
00:44:33This is category error.
00:44:35You are adding the material to the psychological and expecting a fulfilling union that won't come about.
00:44:42Impossible.
00:44:44See this?
00:44:44So it's not about balancing.
00:44:46It's not about saying, okay, let's all be good guys and use green technologies and EVs.
00:44:51Out of the two cars, one can be an electric one.
00:44:57Not that, not that, not that.
00:45:00The scriptures don't prescribe action or balance of any kind.
00:45:04Please understand.
00:45:05It's only in the pop religion that terms like balance come up.
00:45:10Real wisdom, true spirituality is not about balancing at all.
00:45:18The word balance, santulan of any kind, does not appear anywhere in the spiritual lexicon.
00:45:28No where.
00:45:30It's not about balance.
00:45:31In fact, you can go to all extremes possible.
00:45:34Life is so that you go to all extremes.
00:45:36Please go to extremes.
00:45:39You don't have to restrain yourself.
00:45:41You don't have to withhold yourself.
00:45:43That's what most of the pop religion, the religion of the street is made of.
00:45:48And that does no good.
00:45:49In fact, that's the thing responsible for most of the crisis of our planet.
00:45:56Right?
00:45:58People do some good work.
00:46:02People praise.
00:46:02People put you on the top.
00:46:06And when you're there, you feel like you've conquered the world.
00:46:09Everybody is like, you know.
00:46:11But often, people do forget.
00:46:14We're also human beings.
00:46:16So how, at that time, there's a factor of ego at the time.
00:46:19Oh, like, I am the great.
00:46:21I am, I know everything and all that.
00:46:22So how do we continue to do good work, also control our egos and all the extra pollution that we
00:46:30carry?
00:46:31And don't get impure, but stay pure and continue overcoming the egos.
00:46:43Ego is not something that can be overcome.
00:46:51Ego is the first inner operator.
00:46:58The first, the most primary, the most fundamental with nothing below it.
00:47:05Nothing below it at all.
00:47:07Which means there is no one to overcome the ego.
00:47:11So who would overcome the ego?
00:47:13The ego is the operator.
00:47:16The ego is the doer.
00:47:18When you say you want to overcome the ego,
00:47:22who exactly,
00:47:25who exactly is the one trying to overcome the ego?
00:47:29Do you get this?
00:47:30So the ego cannot be overcome because the one who is trying to overcome two is just ego.
00:47:38And you cannot defeat yourself this way.
00:47:42Can you?
00:47:43So the ego trying to overcome itself or overpower itself or control itself
00:47:51is obviously doomed to fail.
00:47:57And that's a law.
00:47:58That's not a limitation.
00:48:00That's a law.
00:48:02The ego can be seen through.
00:48:05The ego can be seen through.
00:48:07And that's the maximum the ego can do to itself.
00:48:10It can look at itself
00:48:13and honestly figure out its ways.
00:48:17That inner honesty is the maximum that the ego is capable of.
00:48:22What happens after that
00:48:23is not in the ego's province.
00:48:27So after that,
00:48:28whether there will be dissolution,
00:48:30whether there will be action this way or that way,
00:48:33that is not for the ego to determine.
00:48:35We can at most be honest with ourselves.
00:48:38Now the question of good deeds,
00:48:40good actions.
00:48:42Good actions by definition
00:48:44are those that proceed
00:48:47from the minimal ego.
00:48:50From the ego that has seen itself
00:48:53and has therefore reduced itself.
00:48:58The seeing has reduced the ego.
00:49:01And from that kind of minimal actor,
00:49:05the action that proceeds
00:49:07can be called as good action.
00:49:10So the paradigm has to move a little.
00:49:13Good action does not come from
00:49:15suppressing the ego
00:49:16or controlling it
00:49:17or overcoming it.
00:49:20Good action comes from
00:49:21seeing the ego.
00:49:23The ego decides to
00:49:25hold the mirror to itself.
00:49:27The ego decides to honestly face itself
00:49:30and acknowledge
00:49:32its intentions.
00:49:34And when the ego does that,
00:49:35it minimizes.
00:49:36What does it mean that the ego minimizes?
00:49:39The stories that it carries,
00:49:41they drop.
00:49:44The aims,
00:49:45the aspirations
00:49:46and a whole lot of misery.
00:49:50The ego is unburdened of all that.
00:49:53That is what it means
00:49:55when you say
00:49:57the ego is minimized.
00:49:59From that minimal ego,
00:50:01whatever happens is good,
00:50:03auspicious,
00:50:04nice.
00:50:06We see that most of
00:50:08the so-called good actions
00:50:10that we have
00:50:10are nothing but
00:50:12ego moves
00:50:13to gratify itself.
00:50:15And that's where
00:50:16that point comes in.
00:50:18The applause
00:50:19from the audience.
00:50:21You know,
00:50:22people praise you
00:50:23when you are doing good things
00:50:24and you feel good about it.
00:50:25It's not that the
00:50:27people praised,
00:50:29therefore you felt
00:50:30good about your deed.
00:50:32The deed was calculated
00:50:34to be in a way
00:50:36that receives praise.
00:50:38Praise was not incidental.
00:50:42Praise was the very motivation.
00:50:47The ego cannot do anything
00:50:49without that motive.
00:50:50I have to receive something
00:50:51because the ego is forever hungry
00:50:53and incomplete.
00:50:54The one who is hungry
00:50:55is not going to
00:50:57exhibit selfless action.
00:50:59The one who is hungry
00:51:01is going to carry
00:51:03his hunger
00:51:04to all places possible
00:51:05and consume
00:51:06all things possible.
00:51:08Right?
00:51:09So,
00:51:09let's not say
00:51:10that the
00:51:11supply came from outside,
00:51:13that the influence
00:51:14came from outside
00:51:15and corrupted the ego.
00:51:17No.
00:51:18First came the demand
00:51:20from inside.
00:51:22And as long as
00:51:23the demand is there,
00:51:25supply will be created.
00:51:27Supply will be created.
00:51:28Right?
00:51:29So,
00:51:29that demand
00:51:30has to be seen through.
00:51:31The one demanding
00:51:32has to be
00:51:34encountered.
00:51:37Namaskar Achoriji.
00:51:38I am quite delighted
00:51:40to invite you
00:51:41to our constituency
00:51:42and one of the politicians
00:51:43here.
00:51:45You spoke
00:51:46very wisely
00:51:47about the wisdom
00:51:48that you just
00:51:49elaborated about.
00:51:50We have to act
00:51:51on wisdom.
00:51:52As a politician,
00:51:53sometimes
00:51:53we are not wise.
00:51:54I mean,
00:51:55we are not wise
00:51:56to some moral judgments
00:51:57because we
00:51:58are based on the interest
00:51:59either of the party
00:52:00or the constituency
00:52:01or in fact
00:52:02for the country
00:52:03which should not be
00:52:04morally right.
00:52:06So,
00:52:07as a politician,
00:52:08is my
00:52:08kartaviyam
00:52:09or kartav
00:52:10is to deliver
00:52:12what my political
00:52:15ambition,
00:52:16I wouldn't say ambition,
00:52:17the political judgment
00:52:19or the political
00:52:22inscription,
00:52:23you call it.
00:52:24Or is it based...
00:52:25Tell me, sir,
00:52:26what are you in
00:52:27politics for?
00:52:28You are in politics
00:52:28to do some good, right?
00:52:29Yes.
00:52:30No good can happen
00:52:31outside.
00:52:32Just using
00:52:33legal ways.
00:52:35I don't mean
00:52:35you must use
00:52:36illegal ways.
00:52:36What I mean is
00:52:38legislation won't suffice.
00:52:39Yes.
00:52:41Legislation won't suffice.
00:52:42So, basically,
00:52:43you require
00:52:43something here
00:52:44and that something
00:52:45cannot be the product
00:52:47of a structure
00:52:47that cannot come
00:52:49from a method
00:52:49that cannot come
00:52:51from a principle
00:52:51that cannot come
00:52:53from an ideology.
00:52:55It is something
00:52:55very internal,
00:52:56very simple.
00:52:58Am I being honest
00:52:59or not?
00:52:59Am I admitting
00:53:00love or not?
00:53:01It's as simple as that
00:53:02and that's something
00:53:02you have to remember.
00:53:03When you say
00:53:04I am a politician,
00:53:06how is that
00:53:06entirely different
00:53:07from somebody
00:53:08who says
00:53:08I am a grocer,
00:53:10I am a barber,
00:53:11I am a driver,
00:53:12I am a teacher,
00:53:13I am an actor,
00:53:14I am a boxer?
00:53:16How is that
00:53:16very different
00:53:17from any other
00:53:18field of action?
00:53:20Right?
00:53:20So, it's not about
00:53:21the action,
00:53:23it's about the actor.
00:53:25You have to be
00:53:26inwardly
00:53:27true to yourself.
00:53:28It simply means
00:53:29looking at your facts
00:53:30as they are.
00:53:31That doesn't mean
00:53:32anything
00:53:32esoteric
00:53:33or mystical.
00:53:34You have to know
00:53:35that inwardly
00:53:36you are full of fear,
00:53:38insecurity,
00:53:39anger,
00:53:39jealousy,
00:53:40hope,
00:53:41optimism,
00:53:42ideologies,
00:53:43this, that,
00:53:43whatever, whatever,
00:53:44whatever,
00:53:44that's all.
00:53:45You were kind enough
00:53:46to answer my question
00:53:47earlier about
00:53:47optimism and pessimism
00:53:49and how to view that
00:53:50in relation to
00:53:51the fruits of actions.
00:53:52Right now,
00:53:55all I have is a question
00:53:56which is to say
00:53:58if you are ever
00:54:00open to actually
00:54:01participating in
00:54:02some of the work
00:54:03in London
00:54:03or in Scotland
00:54:05or in India.
00:54:07All over the world,
00:54:07all over the world.
00:54:09All over the world.
00:54:09All over the world.
00:54:10You just contact,
00:54:11you already have the contacts.
00:54:12Then wherever there is
00:54:13a love of Seva,
00:54:15then please do
00:54:16participate with us.
00:54:18The entire planet
00:54:18is crying for
00:54:20loving Seva.
00:54:21Right?
00:54:22So it's not just
00:54:23at a few spots.
00:54:25The entire planet
00:54:26is demanding
00:54:28to be healed.
00:54:29Yes.
00:54:30And so much
00:54:31of that healing
00:54:31because we know
00:54:32that so much
00:54:34agriculture
00:54:35goes on
00:54:36sort of farming,
00:54:37factory animals,
00:54:38and that creates
00:54:39this repetitive,
00:54:41terrible cycle
00:54:41of all these
00:54:42gases being emitted
00:54:43and this terrible work.
00:54:46And if only people
00:54:47were...
00:54:47We talk about
00:54:48ahimsa
00:54:49or ahinsa
00:54:50and to actually
00:54:51reduce that.
00:54:52And is that
00:54:53a negative thing?
00:54:54Is it merely to say
00:54:55what you're not doing
00:54:55or is it to be positive
00:54:57to say
00:54:57what I should not do?
00:54:59Neither negative
00:54:59nor positive.
00:55:01Ahinsa
00:55:02is the direct
00:55:04and unintended
00:55:05consequence
00:55:08of minimization
00:55:10of ego.
00:55:11Ahinsa
00:55:11is not
00:55:12a pattern
00:55:13of action.
00:55:15Ahinsa
00:55:15is not something
00:55:16that you do
00:55:17or ahinsa
00:55:18is not something
00:55:19that you decline
00:55:19to do.
00:55:20It is not
00:55:21a particular
00:55:22way of living.
00:55:23It is not
00:55:24a set of thoughts.
00:55:25It is not
00:55:26a body of principles.
00:55:28It's not about
00:55:29do's and don'ts.
00:55:31Ahinsa
00:55:31is simply
00:55:32life
00:55:34without
00:55:35the needless.
00:55:37Right?
00:55:38Life
00:55:38without
00:55:39the needless
00:55:40burden
00:55:40of the ego.
00:55:42And
00:55:42there is ahinsa
00:55:43even without
00:55:44you trying
00:55:44to be ahinsak.
00:55:46You're not
00:55:47trying to be
00:55:47non-violent.
00:55:48You just are.
00:55:49You just are.
00:55:52Hello.
00:55:53Hi, sir.
00:55:53I'm Navin Arun.
00:55:54And I have
00:55:55this like
00:55:55a personal question.
00:55:56So I believe
00:55:57that when we
00:55:57become a person
00:55:58of a certain
00:55:58caliber and a
00:55:59charismatic
00:55:59and when we
00:56:00are doing
00:56:01certain good
00:56:01dates or
00:56:02we are just
00:56:02advancing in
00:56:03life which
00:56:04attracts certain
00:56:05people in
00:56:06life and
00:56:07that also
00:56:08creates a
00:56:08jealousy among
00:56:09certain people.
00:56:10So now how
00:56:10do I deal
00:56:11with in a
00:56:12certain situation
00:56:12where I have
00:56:13done nothing
00:56:14wrong but
00:56:15there are just
00:56:15people who are
00:56:16just jealous and
00:56:17they are just
00:56:17trying to bring
00:56:18me down and
00:56:19doing all the
00:56:19bad dates.
00:56:20So how do I
00:56:21deal with it?
00:56:22I'm also a
00:56:23boxing by
00:56:23professional but
00:56:24I never want to
00:56:25hurt anyone in
00:56:25the person.
00:56:26I just play in
00:56:27the ring.
00:56:28Do what is
00:56:29dear to you.
00:56:30You didn't get
00:56:32into whatever you
00:56:33are doing so
00:56:34that people are
00:56:35not jealous of
00:56:36you.
00:56:37Was that the
00:56:37objective?
00:56:38Your objective
00:56:39is independent
00:56:41of whether they
00:56:43are jealous or
00:56:44whether they
00:56:44are not.
00:56:45That decision
00:56:46belongs to
00:56:47them.
00:56:47Let them
00:56:48exercise that.
00:56:49They want to
00:56:50be jealous.
00:56:51They can be
00:56:51jealous.
00:56:51How will you
00:56:52stop that and
00:56:52why must you?
00:56:53Your job is
00:56:54to get into
00:56:55what you are
00:56:55doing and
00:56:56do it truthfully,
00:56:57do it lovingly.
00:56:58That's your
00:56:59job.
00:56:59If their job
00:57:00they feel
00:57:01is to be
00:57:02jealous,
00:57:03that's their
00:57:04sovereignty,
00:57:05that's their
00:57:05decision and
00:57:06you cannot
00:57:06command others
00:57:08lives and
00:57:08change their
00:57:09decisions for
00:57:09them.
00:57:10Yeah, I
00:57:11totally believe
00:57:12that but
00:57:12when they are
00:57:13taking some
00:57:13extra efforts
00:57:14trying to
00:57:15bring me
00:57:15down,
00:57:15trying to
00:57:16curse me and
00:57:17all that stuff.
00:57:17So now that's
00:57:18the real
00:57:18problem that
00:57:19what they are
00:57:19doing.
00:57:20You are
00:57:20allowing that
00:57:21to have some
00:57:22meaning for
00:57:23you.
00:57:24Now that's
00:57:24the problem.
00:57:25If your job,
00:57:26whatever you
00:57:27are doing,
00:57:27is truly
00:57:28important,
00:57:28why are you
00:57:29giving miscellaneous
00:57:30things so
00:57:32much importance?
00:57:34Right?
00:57:34I'm talking to
00:57:35you and there
00:57:35are other
00:57:36people who
00:57:36are having
00:57:38their own
00:57:39things and
00:57:40chit-chatting,
00:57:40gossiping,
00:57:41whatever they
00:57:42have to do.
00:57:43Right?
00:57:44Must I say
00:57:45I'm getting
00:57:46distracted,
00:57:47therefore the
00:57:47quality of my
00:57:48response is
00:57:48suffering?
00:57:49Must I do
00:57:50that?
00:57:50Would you
00:57:50like that?
00:57:51So I'm
00:57:52doing what I
00:57:52have to do,
00:57:53others are
00:57:53doing what
00:57:54others have
00:57:54to do.
00:57:55I just
00:57:55have to
00:57:56ignore them.
00:57:57See, you
00:57:57don't have to
00:57:58ignore them.
00:57:58It happens.
00:57:59It happens.
00:58:00Are you
00:58:00conscious of
00:58:02that ship
00:58:02there?
00:58:03No.
00:58:04Right?
00:58:05Though that
00:58:05is within your
00:58:06visual range.
00:58:07So you
00:58:08don't have to
00:58:09ignore.
00:58:11Right?
00:58:13You simply
00:58:14fail to
00:58:15register it.
00:58:16it simply
00:58:18does not
00:58:18get registered.
00:58:20Even if it
00:58:21is in front
00:58:21of your
00:58:22eyes, it
00:58:23remains unseen
00:58:24because your
00:58:25eyes are full
00:58:26of something
00:58:26else that
00:58:27is much
00:58:27more important
00:58:28and worthy.
00:58:30That's
00:58:31amazing.
00:58:32Thank you
00:58:32so much.
00:58:42Cambridge,
00:58:43Oxford,
00:58:44and now
00:58:44British
00:58:45Parliament.
00:58:46Scholars,
00:58:47students,
00:58:48and legislators.
00:58:49You have
00:58:49been addressing
00:58:50them all.
00:58:51Does your
00:58:52message change
00:58:52with the
00:58:53audience,
00:58:54or is truth
00:58:54the same
00:58:55for all?
00:58:58It does
00:58:59and it
00:59:00does not.
00:59:02it's a
00:59:03beautiful
00:59:04evening
00:59:06in London.
00:59:07Right?
00:59:08This moment.
00:59:08Does the
00:59:09sun change
00:59:10for different
00:59:11places,
00:59:11different
00:59:12people,
00:59:12different
00:59:12countries,
00:59:13different
00:59:14races,
00:59:15different
00:59:15ethnicities,
00:59:16or different
00:59:17campuses,
00:59:18or different
00:59:18parliaments?
00:59:19No, the
00:59:19sun does
00:59:20not change.
00:59:21But yes,
00:59:22the clouds
00:59:23do change
00:59:23and the
00:59:25weather
00:59:25changes
00:59:26and the
00:59:27time of
00:59:28the day
00:59:29keeps
00:59:29changing.
00:59:31the truth
00:59:31is alright
00:59:33with changing
00:59:33costumes
00:59:34because no
00:59:35costume can
00:59:36touch the
00:59:36truth.
00:59:37My
00:59:37responsibility
00:59:39is to
00:59:40present the
00:59:41truth with
00:59:42utmost honesty
00:59:43and not
00:59:46count the
00:59:48applause
00:59:48and obviously
00:59:50not the
00:59:51brickbats
00:59:52or abuses.
00:59:53Aacharya Ji,
00:59:55congratulations.
00:59:56Moments ago,
00:59:58inside the
00:59:59House of
00:59:59Lords of
01:00:00British
01:00:00Parliament,
01:00:01you recited,
01:00:02Asato
01:00:03Maa
01:00:03Sadgamay,
01:00:04Tamso
01:00:05Maa
01:00:05Jyotirgamay,
01:00:07Lead me
01:00:07from the
01:00:08unreal to
01:00:08the real,
01:00:09from darkness
01:00:10to light.
01:00:11What does
01:00:12this Upanishdik
01:00:13prayer, spoken
01:00:14in the heart
01:00:15of British
01:00:15democracy,
01:00:16have to say
01:00:17to lawmakers
01:00:17and power
01:00:18holders?
01:00:19As a
01:00:19lawmaker,
01:00:20you are
01:00:20looking at
01:00:20people,
01:00:21systems,
01:00:21objects and
01:00:23trying to
01:00:23put them
01:00:24in some
01:00:24kind of
01:00:24order with
01:00:26the hope
01:00:27or objective
01:00:28that if I
01:00:29can do
01:00:29things with
01:00:32stuff as it
01:00:33appears on
01:00:33the outside,
01:00:35problems can
01:00:35be solved.
01:00:37Please look
01:00:38at the
01:00:38structure of
01:00:39the verse.
01:00:46This is a
01:00:47prayer.
01:00:48This is a
01:00:49prayer.
01:00:49And what
01:00:50does prayer
01:00:51by definition
01:00:52mean?
01:00:53It means
01:00:53there are
01:00:54things that
01:00:55you cannot
01:00:56do with
01:00:58power and
01:00:59that's where
01:01:00something else
01:01:01other than
01:01:03power is
01:01:04needed.
01:01:05Prayer here
01:01:05simply means
01:01:07honesty.
01:01:08Prayer here
01:01:09simply means
01:01:09I have
01:01:11surrendered when
01:01:12it comes to
01:01:12external pursuits
01:01:13because I have
01:01:14realized that
01:01:15there is
01:01:16something that
01:01:17cannot change
01:01:18by external
01:01:20chase.
01:01:21And who's
01:01:21that one?
01:01:22What's that
01:01:23thing?
01:01:23The chaser.
01:01:24How will the
01:01:25chase change
01:01:27the chaser?
01:01:28So for this
01:01:29chaser to
01:01:29change and
01:01:31this chaser is
01:01:31at the
01:01:32center of the
01:01:34most critical
01:01:35problems facing
01:01:36mankind today.
01:01:37For the chaser
01:01:38to change,
01:01:39what we need
01:01:40is prayerful
01:01:41intent,
01:01:42honesty.
01:01:43honesty.
01:01:44And that's
01:01:45what I hope
01:01:46the lawmakers
01:01:47all over
01:01:48realize.
01:01:49Parliament
01:01:50today,
01:01:50Oxford and
01:01:51Cambridge
01:01:52behind you,
01:01:53LSE,
01:01:54King's,
01:01:55London Climate
01:01:56Action Week
01:01:57and Watkins
01:01:58ahead.
01:01:59If you had to
01:01:59sum up this
01:02:00UK journey in
01:02:01one sentence
01:02:02for people
01:02:02watching in
01:02:03India,
01:02:03what would
01:02:04it be?
01:02:08I would
01:02:12request and
01:02:13gently tease
01:02:15my Indian
01:02:16brothers and
01:02:17sisters.
01:02:19Now,
01:02:20now Europe
01:02:21is listening.
01:02:22Now the
01:02:23academics are
01:02:24listening.
01:02:25Now the
01:02:26writers and
01:02:27philosophers
01:02:28are listening.
01:02:29Cambridge and
01:02:31Oxford and
01:02:31LSE are
01:02:32listening.
01:02:34When will
01:02:35India listen?
01:03:14urally people
01:03:16you
01:03:19возможно
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