The Universe is infinite because our desires are || Acharya Prashant, on Vedanta (2020)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 You live for the sake of contentment.

00:08 You are desperately looking around for contentment.

00:12 You don't get it here.

00:16 So you move to the next place.

00:17 You don't get it there.

00:18 You move to the next place.

00:19 You move to the next place.

00:20 You move to the next place.

00:21 And this continuous movement has created this infinite universe.

00:25 You get now why the universe is infinite?

00:29 Because your thirst is infinite.

00:34 Assume the universe were finite.

00:38 Were the universe finite?

00:42 How would you survive?

00:45 Let's say the universe had just space enough to contain only 10 objects.

00:53 We are assuming a finite universe with just enough space to hold 10 objects.

01:00 10 objects besides you.

01:03 You go to the first one.

01:05 What do you get?

01:06 Dissatisfaction.

01:07 You go to the second one.

01:11 Dissatisfaction.

01:12 And soon you find that you are testing the 10th one.

01:18 And what do you get here as well?

01:20 Dissatisfaction.

01:21 What will you do now?

01:22 How will you live?

01:24 You require an infinite number of objects just to survive in a psychic way.

01:31 In a psychic way.

01:32 So that you can console yourself that there is something else left to be tried.

01:41 Had the universe not been infinite, how would your hope have survived for so long?

01:51 For your false hope to survive, you will have to project an infinitely large and false universe.

02:05 Do you get this?

02:19 That's why the more your inner dissatisfaction grows, the more becomes the importance of

02:32 diverse objects in your life and vice versa.

02:37 Mind you, the more the prevalence and production and consumption of objects will grow, the

02:51 more the dissatisfaction in your life will grow.

02:56 Now do you see why neurosis has become so pandemic in the last 100 years?

03:09 When you relate it to the exponential rise in man's ability to produce and consume objects,

03:27 the more is our ability to produce and consume objects, the more terribly dissatisfied we

03:35 grow within.

03:39 And hence mental illness.

03:50 Remaining what man is, if he would someday come to a point of technological attainment

04:00 where he could colonize and exploit the entire universe, that would be his last day.

04:13 Because that would be the day the falseness of his hope-based existence would be brutally

04:28 and undeniably revealed to him.

04:36 Now everything is available for consumption.

04:39 No scope left for any future.

04:49 There is nothing that you can keep suspended for the future.

04:54 All is immediately available.

04:59 Pick what you may.

05:08 And horror.

05:10 You find that even this infinite abundance of choice fails to quench your thirst.

05:24 You will collapse.

05:28 Mind you, in a psychic way.

05:29 In a bodily way, you may still continue to move about, as most people do.

05:38 Were our bodies to reflect accurately and honestly the state of our minds, none of us

05:53 would have been able to walk firmly even for a distance of 10 meters.

06:09 Our legs would have shown up as cut, wounded, bruised, fractured, the way, exactly the way

06:25 our mind is.

06:28 Unfortunately for us, our bodies do not reflect the condition of our mind.

06:37 Mind is in deep trauma.

06:45 Mind is fractured and lacerated, cut upon cut.

06:54 And yet the body looks so healthy.

06:58 The skin is glowing.

07:03 And that keeps us in the illusion that things are almost all right.

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