Meet the most deceptive person ever. Surprise! || Acharya Prashant (2021)
Video Information: 25.06.2021, Shastra Kaumudi, Greater Noida
Context:
Is it wrong to be judgemental?
How to rightly decide?
What is the thoughts essentially?
How to get rid of thinking?
How to move thoughts into depth?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
Is it wrong to be judgemental?
How to rightly decide?
What is the thoughts essentially?
How to get rid of thinking?
How to move thoughts into depth?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~ .
Transcript
00:00 If you live on the circumference of life, things will always be fragmented for you.
00:11 Not that things are actually fragmented.
00:13 It's just that what you experience is decided by your location.
00:23 That's why I love to continuously ask, "Are you all experiencing the same thing here?"
00:33 Not possible.
00:37 This experiment used to be my favorite.
00:40 There would be large audiences, 100, 200 of them, and I would be speaking, and I could
00:56 see that several of them are quite smug in the confidence that they are getting what
01:01 I am saying.
01:07 So I would say, "Pull out a piece of paper and just summarize the session in 5 or 10
01:19 points.
01:20 Do that."
01:21 And the people would gladly do that.
01:26 Then I would say, "Now exchange your sheet with your neighbor."
01:36 And then there would be commotion.
01:40 Because what you think I have said is not at all what even your neighbor thinks I have
01:48 said.
01:49 Not a distanced person.
01:53 Even your neighbor thinks that I have been saying something totally different from what
01:59 you think I have been saying.
02:03 And you have no idea what your neighbor believes I am saying.
02:08 Sometimes people would be almost shell-struck.
02:12 "But sir never said this.
02:17 What have you written?"
02:19 And the neighbor would be equally insistent.
02:21 He said, "Exactly this.
02:23 What have you written rather?"
02:29 Each of us is very confident of our experiences.
02:32 It happened because I experienced it.
02:34 It is true because I know it.
02:37 It is a fact because I saw it.
02:43 Not true, sir.
02:46 What you are saying could be true, but only at the center of the wheel.
02:51 You don't exist there.
02:54 Had you existed at the center of the wheel, you could have trusted your perceptions completely.
02:59 But where do you exist?
03:00 You exist somewhere along the radius.
03:06 The nerve that connects the center to the periphery.
03:10 You exist somewhere on that.
03:12 And it is a very, very long nerve.
03:16 Extremely long nerve.
03:19 They say the length of the nerves, the cumulative length of the nerves in the human body is
03:26 probably sufficient to cover the distance between the earth and the sun or something
03:32 like that.
03:33 Don't quote me on this.
03:34 Because the nerves are extremely delicate.
03:43 So they cover long distances and there can be a lot of them in a small cross section.
03:49 They are so delicate.
03:56 So many people say, "But I experienced it.
03:59 But I perceived it."
04:00 It doesn't matter.
04:04 To you it might be the truth, but it is not the truth.
04:10 You felt it as the truth, but it is not the truth.
04:13 And that is what separates a high consciousness from a low consciousness.
04:20 The standard mark of the low consciousness is it lives in its own world, which is by
04:29 the way also a sign of, classical sign of, insanity.
04:33 You live in your own personal world.
04:38 You have your thoughts, feelings.
04:46 The higher consciousness is marked by a disbelief, an indifference in perceptions.
05:06 And when you are not prepared to trust your perceptions or experiences, something very
05:13 wonderful happens.
05:16 Your perceptions and experiences become trustworthy.
05:24 When you are prepared to trust your thoughts, feelings, experiences, they keep becoming
05:31 more and more untrustworthy.
05:35 And the more you are skeptical towards them, which means essentially being skeptical towards
05:43 oneself, the more skeptical you are towards your entire body of beliefs, even the thing
05:57 that you just saw or heard, even the stuff you have been deeply believing in since the
06:08 last 20 years, the more skeptical you are towards it, I said something magical happens.
06:17 What?
06:19 When you don't rely on them, they become reliable.
06:24 When you don't trust them so much, they become trustworthy.
06:30 As if they have a life of their own.
06:32 As if they know that our bluff would be called out.
06:36 So no point bluffing.
06:42 You are known to be someone who won't take crap lying down.
06:51 That's how you are known in your circles.
06:58 Now how would people approach you?
07:02 With all their nonsense?
07:04 Would they lie to you on your face?
07:08 Your brand is known for being skeptical and straightforward, very resistant towards lies.
07:32 Now how would be your experience with people?
07:35 Would people come to you and lie to you on your face?
07:39 They won't.
07:40 So you will find that now more and more truth is coming to you.
07:46 Why?
07:48 Because first of all you were unprepared to accept the false.
07:56 You said I don't want to take crap.
08:00 Full stop.
08:04 Now crap doesn't come to you.
08:07 Corollary.
08:09 You take crap and only crap comes to you in larger portions.
08:22 Now don't wonder why life keeps dishing you crap.
08:26 Because first of all you made it known to everybody that you will tolerate crap.
08:36 You tolerate crap and all you get is crap.
08:43 In an analogous way here, you have to start rejecting that which is subjective.
09:06 Which essentially means you have to start rejecting that which your system wants you
09:12 to believe in.
09:13 You will say but what else do I have to believe in?
09:18 Don't believe in anything.
09:21 Don't believe in anything.
09:25 Then that which is believable comes to you on its own.
09:34 Even if you don't believe in anything, the first step is don't believe in yourself.
09:43 Kindly don't skip step one.
09:45 It would be very dishonest.
09:48 Mostly you want to skip step one and go to step two.
09:51 Step two is don't believe in others.
09:55 When I say don't believe in stuff, Raghav will say fine that means don't believe in
10:01 stuff but believe more and more in yourself.
10:05 So keep believing in yourself.
10:06 I am right.
10:07 I will debate.
10:18 Nothing purifies you more rigorously than the continuous remembrance that you are born
10:37 impure.
10:42 Nothing purifies you more than this and nothing is more difficult to remember and accept
10:49 than this.
10:56 It is a very strange method but this is the only method.
11:00 All other methods are just humbug.
11:10 What is the method towards purity?
11:13 Always know how impure you are.
11:20 Never let your mind hoodwink you into a feeling of its honesty or cleanliness.
11:30 We are born unclean, dishonest, impure.
11:40 At any moment, this is the method.
11:44 Ask yourself am I in my personal world?
11:51 Am I in any world?
11:53 Because any world you are in is bound to be a personal world.
12:00 You could phrase this question in many ways depending on your own inner stuff.
12:12 Is something happening in my consciousness right now?
12:14 If something is happening in your consciousness right now, you are in a trap.
12:27 This is what simplicity means, you know, to have a still consciousness in which nothing
12:35 at all is happening.
12:53 And when nothing at all is happening in the consciousness, then all that which needs to
12:59 happen just happens.
13:18 You must develop with practice some kind of an allergy to certain words.
13:31 I felt, I thought, this is the way I am, this is how I do it.
13:43 The moment you utter these words or phrases or they come in your thoughts, you should
13:51 immediately just reject.
14:02 An alarm should go off.
14:10 A resistance should be triggered.
14:16 Something bad just happened.
14:21 With practice you must allow this to be deeply memorized.
14:30 You see, when somebody shouts fire, do you take time to react?
14:38 You have let the word sink deep into your memory.
14:51 The moment you hear that word, you know something improper is happening.
14:56 Somebody just shouted fire.
15:01 You cannot say I am so tolerant of the word that when the word came to me, I said fine,
15:06 I will consider it 15 minutes later.
15:13 Similarly, the moment you hear I felt, there must be an inner resistance just as you resist
15:30 fire or snake.
15:45 Somebody shouts snake.
15:46 Somebody doesn't even have to shout snake.
15:50 Somebody just whispers snake.
15:52 In fact a whisper is even more scary, you know, snake.
16:06 And you know it's an emergency.
16:07 Similarly, the moment your thoughts say but I am feeling this way or you feel like defending
16:15 yourself arguing to somebody else but I think snake.
16:24 What?
16:25 Snake.
16:26 This is something that you have to linguistically train in.
16:32 It's a thing of language so might not be very difficult to do.
16:39 But a linguistic allergy to certain words and phrases.
16:47 Just the word should mean danger.
16:55 Danger.
17:00 Feeling danger.
17:06 Now what does this do?
17:08 Does this make you dead and insensitive to feeling?
17:16 That's how it sounds.
17:18 No, that does not happen.
17:20 Something else happens.
17:21 We have already talked of it.
17:26 Now your feelings are not worth throwing away.
17:40 When feelings start meaning danger to you, then what you feel starts having a certain
17:57 purity.
17:58 Are you getting it?
17:59 Are you getting it?
18:00 It's as if feelings were not a danger on their own.
18:19 It's as if the feelings were carrying a pathogen on their back and when you started distrusting
18:33 your feelings, it's the pathogen that got blocked.
18:42 It's as if the vehicle is not evil in itself but the vehicle was being used to carry a
18:58 lot of mischief makers.
19:00 But what do you do?
19:04 How do you stop the mischief makers?
19:05 The mischief makers are all coming to you in a vehicle.
19:07 How do you stop them?
19:08 You stop the damn vehicle.
19:13 Thoughts and feelings and your personal self and experiences and perceptions are the vehicle
19:18 that carry the mischief makers.
19:22 Stop the vehicle.
19:25 Think of this.
19:28 You have these barricades on the road.
19:31 Are the barricades meant to stop vehicles or people?
19:36 Usually they want to stop people.
19:40 But the thing is, if only the people were to be stopped, no barricade can stop a person.
19:48 You know how a barricade is.
19:50 If you were just walking, would the barricade be able to stop you?
19:54 It's a strange thing.
19:59 You very well know that the person has no power to travel so far without the vehicle.
20:09 So if the person is to be stopped, the vehicle is to be stopped.
20:13 So you make an arrangement that stops the vehicle.
20:16 Similarly, all rubbish comes to you in forms of your personal impulses of consciousness.
20:25 This is me.
20:26 This is my life.
20:27 This is this.
20:28 This is that.
20:29 Stop it.
20:30 Barricade it.
20:31 What's written on the barricade?
20:34 STOP.
20:35 And you have a guard patrolling it, preferably with a gun.
20:45 It's needed.
20:48 Some dude might just decide to blast away the barricade.
20:55 So then you require something to puncture his tires.
21:05 The same vehicle can carry something extremely pious, very holy.
21:18 Bhav can be the purest thing in the world.
21:29 You understand bhav?
21:32 Feeling.
21:34 But not the bhav that you experience.
21:46 You would come and say, "But you know, uski feelings holi, meri feelings pe goli."
22:01 That's what you just said, sir.
22:08 If Meera sings a song for Krishna, then she is to be respected.
22:18 Song becomes a holy composition.
22:22 And when I am expressing my feelings, then you are saying there has to be a guard and
22:26 the guard has to have a gun and you puncture the tire and all kinds of violence you are
22:30 talking of.
22:31 What is this?
22:32 This is life.
22:34 This is the fact of consciousness.
22:38 Some deserve to be worshipped.
22:40 The others deserve to be shot at.
22:46 The equality that you talk of is just a juvenile concept.
23:07 The good news is, even if right now you are someone whose personal self deserves to be
23:17 just shredded apart, yet you can grow up into someone whose personal self becomes so pure
23:36 that he or she need not reject himself or herself.
23:47 Now life can become a song of self-expression.
23:53 But only now, not before that, please.
23:57 People talk of being expressive, right?
23:59 As a great virtue.
24:00 They say, "But I want to express myself."
24:03 What do you have to express?
24:07 The gutter says, "I want to express myself so that we die of stink."
24:20 But the gutters of the world are the ones most eager to express themselves.
24:25 Have you noticed?
24:26 You know, "I want to speak, I want to sing, I want to say this, I want to say that.
24:31 I am so vocal about everything.
24:36 Stink stink and stink."
24:37 Ever seen a bottle of perfume or etre?
24:50 How big is it?
24:52 And what is the size of the gutter?
24:56 That's what.
24:57 The media, news, they are all full of gutters expressing themselves.
25:07 Editorial pages, opinion pieces, gutters.
25:15 And somewhere in the corner, the bottle of perfume is lying.
25:23 Lying.
25:25 All closed.
25:34 And even if it were to express itself, the fragrance would be lost in the stink.
25:46 Reject, deny, negate.
26:03 And then you come to a point when you do not need to reject, deny and negate.
26:12 Because you do not now exist to reject, deny or negate.
26:19 Because in the first place, what is it that you needed to reject, deny, negate?
26:26 Yourself.
26:27 When you are no more, that's only when you really are.
26:32 Now who's there to reject and what is there to be rejected?
26:43 But before you are gone, do not behave and believe as if you are gone.
26:54 Until you are not gone, your being, I said, is a big stink.
27:06 And when you stink, you are a trouble to yourself and torture to others.
27:17 Are you not?
27:19 In fact, to yourself, you are a lesser trouble because you become so conditioned to, so used
27:26 to your stink that you do not even realize that you are one big manhole.
27:35 It is the others that suffer.
27:38 The entire world suffers because of you.
27:43 Of course, you too do that, right?
27:46 All the pathogens are having a gala picnic on your existence.
27:51 Bacteria, fungi, where else is the stink coming from?
28:04 And what are you busy doing?
28:06 You know, I'm creating, I'm writing a new song about, it expresses my health.
28:20 It's a song of good health.
28:28 Of course, all the pathogens are in good health.
28:34 All the bacteria on your body, on your existence are overweight.
28:44 Fat fungus.
29:08 It's the worst thing to behold.
29:17 A man terribly confident of his nonsense.
29:34 This is Maya, to believe in that which is not.
29:43 Otherwise, facts are really available for all to see.
29:53 There would have been no Maya.
30:01 We deny facts.
30:06 Even our memory becomes selective.
30:13 A conversation involved eight dialogues.
30:16 We'll remember seven.
30:18 Forget the eighth and the crucial one.
30:24 Disgusting.
30:32 Have it not happened?
30:40 The memory becomes infected.
30:43 The seven pieces that you remember are distorted pieces.
30:48 Eighth one you have conveniently chosen to forget.
30:52 And the seven that you remember are distorted.
31:06 I'm getting it.
31:19 Memory at the center.
31:30 The wheel moves, but it is the center that holds it.