Is it okay to enjoy and have fun as a teenager? || Acharya Prashant, with NIT-Jamshedpur (2023)

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00:00You don't exist to eat and get fat.

00:09You don't exist to stuff up your lockers.

00:17Life is brief and you exist to burn bright.

00:25Do you understand that as a young man who still has not put on enough facial hair?

00:37First year.

00:42You don't exist to find a safe cocoon for yourself somewhere.

00:50Dark caves are very safe, are they not?

00:55I don't know who said that, but I liked that when I was your age.

00:59Ships are safest in the harbor, but they are not meant to be there.

01:05Life is not for the sake of safety.

01:07Where is a ship absolutely safe?

01:12When it is anchored?

01:13When is an airplane absolutely safe?

01:18It doesn't exist for that.

01:22You don't exist to be safe.

01:26And there is no thrill in cheap kinds of adventures.

01:32The real thrill is when you challenge the very core of your existence.

01:37Try that.

01:40You will forget all your cheap intoxicants.

01:50And it's a continuous thrill and that thrill needs to become your career.

02:00Not some banker, you know, who parts his hair from here and you look at the dress and you

02:07can tell where he is coming from.

02:12I have nothing personally against bankers.

02:14They are nice people.

02:17I hope my bankers are not listening to this.

02:21Tomorrow they will cause trouble to the foundation.

02:33You look so fat and so ugly.

02:35Not you.

02:36When you are there in one of those safe offices with wealth making faces at you from each

02:52of the walls that encage you.

03:03Be a fighter.

03:07Look at the state of the earth.

03:09Look at the society.

03:10Look at how we are.

03:11Look at how kids are.

03:13Look at how the environment is.

03:23Live for something you can die for.

03:26Let that be your career.

03:40And that is unlikely to come from your placement office.

03:44There you will have the regular shoppers hopping in to pick you away like a habitual shopper

04:02takes away goods.

04:03Mostly I don't know how it operates these days but I think things have not changed much.

04:16Some four or five companies, they walk away with almost 50% of the batch.

04:24What fun can be there in this kind of a career?

04:34But there is safety, security and you can console yourself and you can tell yourself

04:37you know I am not threatened anymore.

04:39Now learn, practice to live in danger.

04:48Yes, there is danger.

04:50I see that.

04:51I am okay.

04:55I am okay in the middle of danger.

04:56Not that I am oblivious of danger.

04:59I acknowledge yes, there is a danger, yes.

05:03Danger in terms of money is not secured.

05:08There is no guarantee that the paycheck will come on an appointed day.

05:16There is no guarantee that the paycheck will come at all.

05:22There is no guarantee that what I am doing will be socially honorable.

05:29So there is a danger.

05:30All right, all right.

05:31I am okay with that.

05:32I am okay with that.

05:33And when you live that way, you discover a certain fun of a high quality.

05:43You could call it high end fun.

05:46That high end fun, the knowers have called it joy or ananda.

05:52Ananda is nothing but fun of the highest quality.

05:56What do you think?

05:57Why is people are all grave and dead serious?

06:00No.

06:01They are all the time having fun, but it's a top end fun, like headphones.

06:11You could have a headphone for 800 bucks or 2000 or 5000.

06:20And there are headphones that would cause you a lakh rupees or more.

06:31Top end, absolutely top end headphone.

06:35That's fun.

06:38I don't know.

06:49I have heard of this story.

06:50I haven't read it anywhere.

06:52I have heard it from somewhere long back.

06:57I think it was Osho.

06:58I don't know the authenticity, but he quoted it, so I am just.

07:05So there was this ascetic and it's said to be around the 1857 mutiny.

07:19So the British were quite scared because the Indian soldiers were chasing the British in

07:25their colonies, in their cantonments, in their settlements and attacking them and killing them.

07:35The British were quite scared and one day they find this naked sadhu roaming about the

07:44cant where the military presence was.

07:50So they think that he is an informer or an agent of the Indian sepoys.

07:57And this sadhu ostensibly was on a moan vrat, a vow of silence.

08:06So the British soldiers, they go and drag him to their commander or whosoever it was.

08:15And he keeps asking, keeps asking, who are you, please tell.

08:19And he doesn't utter a word because he has taken the oath of silence, so he doesn't say anything.

08:26So they pester him even more and they hit him or whatever they could do.

08:35And when they do that, he starts smiling and laughing, he starts smiling and laughing.

08:45And now they are fed up, they are saying it's very difficult to extract information from him.

08:48So just one thing you tell us, they say, what's your name, who are you, what's your name, who are you?

08:58He doesn't say anything.

09:00So finally they say he is for sure an informer and he had come here as a spy, let's just kill him.

09:07So they shoot him or they stab him, whatever.

09:18And just before they are to kill him, they ask him one last time, tell us your identity, who are you?

09:26And when they stab him, he lets out a huge gaffa, a taas, just before dying.

09:39Before that he was only smiling.

09:42And now he has roared aloud in laughter, just as they have stabbed him.

09:48And he says, Tattvamasi, you are asking for my identity, it is exactly the same as yours.

10:00That you are.

10:07My name is identical to yours.

10:11My essence is not separated from your essence, Tattvamasi, and obviously he has been stabbed

10:18and he is still laughing and then he dies.

10:23So there is deep fun in dying for the truth.

10:31And why should that not be your career?

10:37Why should that not be your career?

10:42Think of the kind of life this man would have led if he could die laughing.

10:52If there can be laughter in your death, for sure there was tremendous joy in your life, right?

11:02Else how can you die laughing?

11:05You know how people are in the moment of their death, clutching, gasping, pleading, begging,

11:15falling unconscious because of fear and pain.

11:20That's how people die.

11:23And here you have this man, he could have easily saved his life by just saying, you

11:26know, I'm just a fakir, let me go, I don't know anything.

11:35Work is when you have something more important than your life.

11:43Livelihood is when you work just to feed your life.

11:47That's the difference between livelihood and work.

11:51Livelihood is labor.

11:52Work is joy.

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