Use your hurt as ammunition || Acharya Prashant (2021)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: 29.01.2021, Amne-Samne Camp, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India  Context: ~ How to make people to stop eat animal flesh? ~ How make people to stop drinking milk? ~ How to be a real climate warrior?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

Transcript

00:00 (sad music)

00:02 - So, Charuji,

00:08 I see that I want to say a lot of things,

00:15 but I don't, and I just be a coward.

00:19 So, for example, I saw a man whip a bull with a stick,

00:24 but he was doing it behind the ears,

00:27 under the chin, where it really hurts.

00:30 And I wanted to go and just grab the stick

00:32 and beat him with it, or at least tell him something,

00:35 but I just ended up walking past and not doing anything.

00:39 Similarly, over here in the restaurants,

00:42 today, when I was going to my hotel,

00:46 there was this man with this plate of eggs,

00:49 and then this is supposed to be a city

00:50 where everyone is supposedly very pious and holy,

00:54 and I wanted to smash the eggs on his face,

00:56 but I just walked up the stairs past him.

00:58 I didn't even say anything, but I was trembling inside.

01:03 And I noticed, and when I do speak about it,

01:08 so, for example, when I told my sister

01:10 that would you like someone to put his hand inside you

01:13 and make you pregnant and then steal your baby

01:16 so he could drink your milk, it comes off very harsh.

01:21 And it mostly, I mostly take the way

01:25 of not rocking the boat, because it would take a lot of,

01:30 I wouldn't be able to walk 10 meters without saying anything.

01:35 How do, I guess, one, why am I such a coward?

01:40 And two, how do I get to that stage

01:43 where I can give the sage counsel in a way that you do,

01:47 which is very gentle?

01:49 When I do it, it comes off with a lot of force and--

01:53 - You know, whosoever tries it with his family members

01:58 meets the same end.

02:00 So I might come across as gentle

02:02 when talking to you all here,

02:04 but when I tried on people who have been intimate to me,

02:09 the result is much the same, hardly any difference.

02:12 See, on one hand, you have to be vigorously,

02:19 eager, energetic, and enthusiastic about this cause.

02:24 On the other hand, you also have to be skilled

02:35 and thoughtful like a good soldier.

02:40 A good soldier does not waste himself

02:45 on unnecessary battles.

02:49 He preserves himself.

02:52 The one who is whipping the bull can be stopped,

02:59 but here is my energy and my resources.

03:04 Let's say they amount to 100 units.

03:08 What if 20 or 30 units of them are expended

03:11 in just stopping this one petty fellow?

03:16 It's not one bull that I want to save.

03:18 I want to save the billions of living beings

03:24 that are being slaughtered every day, right?

03:27 But if 30% of my energy would be expended

03:30 in this one particular cause,

03:32 then am I not doing injustice to the rest of the ones

03:35 that deserve to be saved?

03:37 Are you getting it?

03:41 So while you have to have that fierce fire within,

03:46 on the other hand, you have to remember

03:50 that the soldiers are few,

03:54 and they cannot afford to waste themselves on little things.

04:00 You very well know how badly outnumbered you are, right?

04:06 You won't want to get into something

04:10 that lands you in lockup or in courtroom battles.

04:15 You'd rather have a lawyer for all that, right?

04:20 Let the lawyer take care of those things.

04:22 The spiritual soldier, the religious warrior

04:30 has to be extremely intelligent.

04:36 You could go to the extent of saying

04:41 that he has to be cunning in the service of truth.

04:49 I'm choosing this word with all deliberation.

04:53 He has to be cunning in the service of the truth.

04:58 Cunning enough to beat the most cunning ones.

05:06 The difference between the cunningness of the two

05:09 is that all the cunning ones have cunningness at their core.

05:14 The soldier of truth has truth at his core

05:23 and cunningness at the service of truth.

05:26 Are you getting it?

05:33 Just go to the Battle of Mahabharata.

05:38 There are so many occasions when Krishna tells Arjuna,

05:43 this is not the time to pick up drone.

05:48 Just obediently, respectfully go past him.

05:55 Today is not the day, Arjuna.

05:59 Don't pick up this battle.

06:03 And then he tells,

06:06 Drona won't give up his arms so easily.

06:17 Has to be Ashwathama and Hatho.

06:21 Narova, Kunjarova.

06:26 Getting it?

06:33 First of all, you have to have Krishna at your center.

06:39 And if you have Krishna at your center,

06:42 use Maya very liberally.

06:49 That's what my teacher says,

06:51 "Ja thagne thagni thagi ta thag ko aadesh"

06:55 She cheats all.

07:05 But she can be cheated.

07:13 Right!

07:14 No need to remain a simpleton.

07:24 The image that we carry of the prophets, the saints, the sages, the rishis is very misleading.

07:34 The way they have been presented to us is very conducive

07:42 to our falsenesses and darknesses.

07:46 We have been told that they were fellows who really did not have much to do with what was going on in the society.

07:52 Almost like handicapped grandfathers at home

08:02 who can do little except dispense sage counsel.

08:10 Right!

08:11 That's what all the oldies do at home.

08:14 Octogenarians and Nanogenarians.

08:17 The fellow is 94.

08:19 What else can he do?

08:22 He sits all day and talks to the extent possible.

08:26 That's how we have painted our sages.

08:30 Right!

08:32 They were the ones who were not capable of doing much

08:37 but they kept on talking of all the nice things in life.

08:41 They kept dispensing moral values probably.

08:47 You should be good.

08:49 As he said, do not lie to people.

08:53 "Sada Satya Bolo"

08:56 This kind of model of spirituality, I say, is conducive to nothing but falseness, evil, irreligiosity.

09:08 The man of truth has to be extremely sharp here

09:13 and this sharpness has to be devoted to this.

09:16 This has to be used as a resource.

09:19 Everything that you have has to be used as a resource.

09:24 You know business management?

09:26 Yes, I'll use that in the service of the truth.

09:31 You know a language?

09:33 Yes, I'll use that.

09:34 Whatsoever you have, including your cunning.

09:38 Yes, I have a sharp intellect.

09:41 When everything is to be used for the sake of truth,

09:47 why not your sharpness?

09:53 Why not? Tell me.

09:55 You have to beat them at their game

10:03 and you'll beat them because they play for themselves.

10:07 So a point will come when they'll be afraid.

10:19 They have too much at stake.

10:21 They are doing it for their own self.

10:23 You play the game for something beyond yourself.

10:27 You'll never be afraid.

10:29 In spite of drastically fewer resources, you'll still beat them

10:36 because you'll not be afraid.

10:44 A huge part of their resources will go towards defending their self.

10:51 And as far as you are concerned, everything that you have

10:54 can be applied, deployed.

10:59 So think, intellect, reason are very very important resources.

11:09 They have to be used. You have to see how things can be done.

11:12 This is no way.

11:14 People like you might just be 40 in number in this entire city.

11:23 And if out of those 40, 12 start picking street fights with bull owners,

11:34 then who will fight for spirituality?

11:40 Maya will have a hearty laugh.

11:42 12 out of 40 are gone fighting a minor battle.

11:49 Every time you walk past a meat shop or you come across a menu containing a lot of flesh,

12:02 let that harden your resolve.

12:08 No point throwing that menu on the waiter's face.

12:11 The waiter is a puny fellow.

12:13 He didn't even write the menu. He has nothing to do with.

12:18 Not even the manager. What can the manager do?

12:21 Not even the owner.

12:23 There are bigger forces at work.

12:25 And you know, what are those bigger forces?

12:27 They are not a person.

12:30 Those bigger forces are all of us.

12:33 The darkness within the human mind, the darkness pervasive in mankind,

12:38 is the larger force that is making all those things possible.

12:42 The only way to defeat that menu card is to remove the darkness in the mind of men.

12:50 Getting it?

12:57 It will hurt.

13:04 You will see all these things happening.

13:06 It will hurt.

13:08 But use that hurt as a resource.

13:11 Don't pretend that you aren't hurt.

13:17 Acknowledge the hurt and be even more charged up using the hurt.

13:25 Yes, I am hurt and I will take out every bit of it on you in an intelligent way.

13:33 [silence]

13:36 [silence]

13:39 [silence]

13:42 [music]

13:45 (music)

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