The hurt mind demands caution and restriction || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Yes.

00:01 So I have a question.

00:02 You talked of the highest level creation or interaction being love, which is basically

00:03 completely forgetting yourself and seeing the other person in you.

00:04 I'd like to ask you that is it really practical in the real world in this ever-growing competition

00:05 between the two?

00:06 Is it really fruitful to completely forget yourself and look at others?

00:34 What's your name?

00:41 Sonakshi.

00:43 Sonakshi.

00:45 At this moment, do you really remember your ankle?

01:07 I remember my shoulder.

01:10 It's hurting.

01:20 I was driving up the hills, riding my bike, it slipped, hit me here, still hurting and

01:30 it is constantly reminding me of itself.

01:36 Does your shoulder remind you of itself?

01:43 What if you have a headache?

01:44 Will the head make its presence felt?

01:49 It would constantly be reminding you of itself.

01:58 You said the third kind of negotiation is about forgetting who you are.

02:02 Do you see when you can forget something?

02:10 You can forget something, especially yourself.

02:14 You can forget yourself only when you are completely healthy.

02:22 What is healthy is forgotten.

02:25 What is sick is remembered.

02:28 Is that not so?

02:31 Is that not so?

02:34 You hurt your ankle and you will remember it very nicely.

02:40 The entire day you will be conscious of it.

02:50 You can forget yourself only when you are totally free of sickness.

03:07 That's not such a bad thing.

03:09 Is it?

03:10 Or is it?

03:11 As I speak to you, I really do not remember anything.

03:30 There is nothing in memory waiting for disclosure.

03:39 There is nothing in the mind squirming to be expressed.

03:50 So I can completely forget everything.

03:57 In fact, you will have to remind me of the time as the last group had to.

04:06 I don't need to remember anything.

04:08 I am alright, peaceful, settled.

04:10 Why do I need to remember anything?

04:12 You are there and I am here and that's sufficient.

04:15 What is the need for memories?

04:18 What is the need for caution?

04:21 You see how this remembering is related to being cautious and suspicious?

04:29 I need to put my ankle down with care and caution.

04:34 Why?

04:36 Because I am sick and the thing hurts.

04:40 If it doesn't hurt, who needs care?

04:46 And isn't that a blessing to be carefree?

04:52 Like a bird.

04:56 Fly anywhere, sit anywhere, sing whatever you want to.

05:03 But no, not at all.

05:07 If the bird were coached that this is an increasingly competitive world, it's good, right?

05:21 That the birds are not coached that way.

05:29 Is it really an increasingly competitive world or was the world always like this?

05:36 Those who had to compete kept competing and those who had to sing, they kept singing.

05:45 The world is not at all a worse place than it ever was.

05:55 Because man's mind is the same.

05:58 We have had instances of wars and violence and pettiness all throughout man's history.

06:05 Kindly do not think that what you are seeing is a new phenomena that all of a sudden we

06:12 all have become corrupt or that debauchery is raining from the skies or that the soil

06:25 is now so infested with fertilizers and pesticides that murderers and rapists are being born

06:36 out of it.

06:37 Nothing like that.

06:39 The world was always like this.

06:42 Mankind has fought thousands of wars.

06:45 Entire populations have been wiped out.

06:55 And man has been autocratic, tyrannical, unjust.

07:04 Sometimes he has exploited on basis of race, sometimes on the basis of gender, nationality,

07:11 religion, economic status.

07:14 People have always been competing.

07:19 What else was colonialism?

07:23 What else was a king fighting against the other?

07:25 Weren't they competing for land?

07:33 What else have been your great epic battles?

07:38 Sometimes fight for land, sometimes fight for power, sometimes fight for respect, sometimes

07:42 fight for women.

07:54 You know of India as having been under the British domination.

08:01 But no, there were a few other countries of Europe as well who were competing to exploit

08:09 India.

08:17 Competition has always been there and wherever there is competition, there is the urge to

08:23 exploit something and there is that inner debauchery, that inner sickness that we talked

08:32 of.

08:36 And parallelly, those who didn't have to compete simply didn't compete.

08:49 There were the saints and the explorers and the scientists who had nothing to do with

08:53 competition.

08:57 They were there 3000 years back, they were there 1000 years back, they were there 300

09:01 years back and they are there even today.

09:07 It's just that what is it that you prefer to see, what is it that you value?

09:13 If you value competition, then all that you will see in the world are competing faces

09:20 and you will say, "Oh see, he is competing, he is competing, he is competing and that

09:24 proves that the world is full of competition".

09:29 But if your mind is peaceful, then you will see settled faces and loving hearts and you

09:40 will say, "See, such a peaceful man and that proves that the world is a peaceful place".

09:49 They are always there parallelly, simultaneously.

09:55 You have had Aurangzeb who is fighting and you have had Abul Aisha parallel to him who

10:05 is singing.

10:10 You have had Nadir Shah and Taimurlal and parallel to them was the Bhakti movement.

10:20 You have had the Crusades in Europe and parallel to them were Newton and Galileo.

10:35 Depends what you prefer to see and remember you will prefer to see what you are.

10:42 If you are competitive, all that you will see is competition.

11:02 So does the ankle hurt?

11:14 What do you remember?

11:17 That is called clarity, to not remember anything.

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