Self-Education: Empowerment and Growth || Acharya Prashant, with students (2014)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Who wants to derive energy by breaking the atom?

00:09 Man.

00:10 And who will decide the direction in which that energy goes?

00:15 Man.

00:16 So you have modern physics that told you about nuclear fission and later nuclear fusion also.

00:25 And what did the uneducated mind do with that energy?

00:33 What technology was that science converted into?

00:39 What have we done with that?

00:43 What we have done is that today mankind is standing on so much fissile material that the entire earth can be destroyed hundreds of times.

00:58 Now that's utterly stupid.

01:00 One time is sufficient to destroy everybody.

01:04 But you have so much of fissile material with you, so much ammunition with you that you can destroy this earth once, then twice and then 500 times again.

01:18 That is what this uneducated mind does with all the objects of your normal education.

01:30 And one of the greatest products of science has been the industrial revolution.

01:37 The industrial revolution that gave us electricity, that gave us all these objects of consumptions in great measure.

01:50 That gave us the highways, that gave us all the machines.

01:56 But what did man do with the engine?

02:01 What have we done with our knowledge of producing energy?

02:09 We have brought ourselves to a point where the weather cycle has been greatly disrupted.

02:19 Where entire species are getting extinct by each passing day.

02:33 The sea levels have already risen greatly and several islands have already disappeared.

02:41 And what's worse, we are not being educated to bother about it.

02:54 Because when your mind is filled only with knowledge of objects, all you want to do is consume.

03:05 My only botheration is how much I can consume.

03:10 I do not bother what is happening outside my air-conditioned hall.

03:14 I am consuming the air-conditioning.

03:18 I am consuming whatever I can and what is happening outside I don't bother.

03:26 I have to bother when it will strike me hard, but today I don't bother.

03:33 Because my mind is objects, objects, objects and objects.

03:37 And what else can be done with objects?

03:40 Eat them, consume them, be entertained with them.

03:44 And that's what my life gets filled with.

03:48 Eating, consumption, entertainment.

03:55 Wherever you are looking at the world,

04:02 whenever you would look at the world without simultaneously asking,

04:09 who is looking at the world? What is his relationship with the world?

04:15 What is this thing called the world and what is this thing called seeing the world?

04:26 You would end up with very tragic consequences.

04:35 You would have read that phrase in the reading that was given to you.

04:39 Smart phones and stupid people.

04:42 Guided missiles and unguided men.

04:48 So your missile very well knows where it should go, right?

04:54 You can launch a missile from the United States

04:59 and direct it very precisely to some village in Iraq.

05:03 You can do that, right?

05:05 So the missile very nicely knows where it should go.

05:10 Now tell me how many of you know where you should go?

05:15 Do you know where you should go?

05:17 Or is there just confusion and conflict?

05:21 Now what kind of education is this that produces wonderful missiles but confused men?

05:33 (Music)

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