Sir, Why Family Members Don't Listen to Wise Advice? || Acharya Prashant, with Ahimsa Fellows (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 So, the family system and veganism just don't go together.

00:06 The family system and spirituality don't go together.

00:09 At the risk of sounding just too cynical, let me say, in general the family system and

00:20 goodness do not go together.

00:24 It's another matter that by dint of your perseverance and your effort, you are able to convince

00:33 and convert some of your family members.

00:36 That is possible, entirely possible.

00:39 But to think that just because a certain group of people belong to your family, therefore

00:44 they'll be more amenable to your virtuous advice is just wishful thinking, daydreaming,

00:52 it won't happen and if you try too much of that, all you'll get is some heartbreak.

00:57 In fact, if you want to turn somebody vegan, focus on your neighbors, not on your parents,

01:03 not on your spouse.

01:06 These are the last people who'll listen to any kind of, they'll simply say you're virtue

01:14 signaling, you just want to have an upper hand, why can't we have our own choices.

01:20 They are not going to be amenable because they are related to you via the pleasure principle.

01:27 When a man chooses a wife, is he really wedding a guru?

01:36 Now the wife turns vegan and starts sermonizing, why will the man take it?

01:42 The man will say I brought home a luscious body and remain that, remain that.

01:51 You are trying to become somebody I never opted for.

01:57 This is not what I chose to bring home.

02:04 You are trying to be a guru, you are trying to be a preacher.

02:07 I don't want a preacher.

02:09 I want a cute wife, that's all.

02:22 Focus on the neighbors.

02:24 Instead of your family whatsapp group, focus on anonymous people on social media.

02:30 You'll get greater success there.

02:33 If you raise a big civil war on your family whatsapp group, and we have family whatsapp

02:41 group, extended family is there, some 30-40 members are there, all you'll get is silence.

02:47 And if you try too hard, some admin will simply throw you out of the group.

02:54 That's all that you'll get.

02:58 I think you just put it out there, the unapologetic answer, like deal with it.

03:06 So the last question from our side would be from Aarti.

03:12 She says that from an ethical standpoint, is it more important to push few people to

03:17 be perfect vegans or a large number to reduce the consumption of non-vegan food?

03:25 See somebody's life has to be saved.

03:27 It doesn't matter how that life will be saved.

03:31 If 40 people can become half vegans, whatever that means, if 40 people can become half vegans,

03:40 that's obviously better than having 10 perfect vegans.

03:44 So I do not care too much for purity.

03:48 I care for that little one's life.

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