Cosmetic face, Cosmetic life || Acharya Prashant, at Delhi University (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Namaskar Acharya ji. As you have been constantly speaking on the futility of body identification

00:08and yet we see that a global cosmetic industry is valued at 380 billion US dollars, big number,

00:16and in India we have seen a compound annual growth rate of this industry as 16%. So my

00:22question to you is what we can do to at least slow down this unhealthy trend or like not

00:28if to completely stop this, what we can do to at least slow it down and move the humanity

00:32from body consciousness towards something else. Do not fall for someone who loves cosmetics.

00:39That's what you can do. Please understand the cosmetics you are talking of is only something

00:54that you put on the face, the body. We are totally cosmetic people. You understand the

01:00word cosmetic? What does that mean? Artificial. So if a person is not living by the inner truth,

01:11the person is cosmetic and if the person is cosmetic, sooner or later that person will

01:19promote cosmetics in some way or the other. One way to promote cosmetics is you start using them

01:27yourself. One way is you start manufacturing them. One way is you start selling them. One

01:33way is you start advertising them. One way is you fall for someone who uses cosmetics. So

01:43cosmetic inside, cosmetic inside, cosmetic outside. If someone is too fond of makeup,

01:52the person is made up. Would you like to be with someone who is quite made up? Personal

02:01hygiene is one thing, right? Taking care of the body for reasons of health is one thing.

02:09And decking yourself up so that you look better to the other person, so that you can attract the

02:20other person, so that you can look as someone that you are not, is a totally different thing,

02:29is it not? Is it not? Why do you want to be a made-up person? Why would you want to be with

02:39a made-up person? But cosmetics sell exactly because we do not have eyes that can look at

02:48reality. So someone comes to us totally made up and instead of rejecting that person, we actually

02:57find that person more attractive. Think of a scenario. If people were such that they started

03:09loathing made-up people, cosmetic people, would cosmetics still sell? Please tell me. That's what.

03:19But still as you said that the cosmetics are also inside our mind and also outside.

03:25They are first of all inside our mind. Because we are made up, artificial, cosmetic, inside,

03:33therefore we are cosmetic outside. So on that, as I have cosmetic inside,

03:41I want to ask how to remove them even though I know they are not giving me some very good gains.

03:47Like if I am coming here then I should look nice, why not? I am going to talk to you,

03:51people will see me, why I should not look nice and…

03:54No, no, please understand. Not looking ugly is one thing. If you have hair,

04:02you want to comb them, right? Otherwise they will be all over your face. Or you can decide

04:10to shave your head altogether to get rid of the hair. Not looking ugly is one thing. Not

04:17letting the body interfere in your creative tasks is one thing. If I do not take care of the body,

04:23it will start interfering. That is one thing. And putting on makeup so that you can attract

04:31people, so that you can enhance your value in their eyes is a totally different thing.

04:37In the first case, I am taking care of my body for my own sake. In the second case,

04:45I am doing something to my body for the other's sake. I do not know my value,

04:52but I want to raise my value, so I am putting on cosmetic stuff. That is a totally different thing.

04:58How to stop this second one thing? You need to have something of value in your life. When you

05:05do not have value within, then you want to put artificial value upon yourself as a compensation.

05:16Inwardly, I am barren. So outwardly, I want to look colorful. But looking colorful outwardly

05:27would not help the fact that I am inwardly barren. But I will be able to fool others. Looking at my

05:36outward colorfulness, they will be fooled into thinking that I might be inwardly colorful as

05:43well. And remember, ultimately, it is the inner color, the inner vigor, the inner truth, inner

05:49life, inner love. That's what we all are looking for. It's just that eyes cannot look into somebody's

05:57mind. But the eyes can look at somebody's face. So the face becomes a proxy for mind. And I know

06:05fully well that you cannot look into my mind. I know you can look at my face. So to fool you,

06:09what will I do? I will decorate the face. I will decorate the face. The fact is, the face is not

06:17representing the mind right now. The mind is dull, bored, idiotic, lifeless. But the face is so

06:26glowing and so colorful. I am cheating the other. How to stop this from happening? By reversing the

06:36process. When you have real value inside, then the incentive to put artificial value upon yourself,

06:46that substantially decreases. I know what I am doing within. There is no real need to

06:54load myself externally with cosmetics. A cricketer on a cricket field, a golfer, a tennis player,

07:06obviously when they come to the field or to the court, they do take care of their clothes,

07:15don't they? They also take care of their hair. They might also put some sunscreen or lotion

07:24on their face. But what is it that you value them for? Their sunscreen? Their shorts? And

07:31their shorts have been sponsored by some huge MNC. But is that what you value them for? No.

07:40You value them for fully inner stuff. And if that inner stuff is not there, you would actually laugh

07:48at them. So that's what. When you have inner stuff, then you do not care too much for,

07:54you dive on the cricket ground. In the course of fielding, you dive. And what does that do to your

08:01pants? What does that do? They get spoiled. But do you start laughing at that fielder or do you

08:07actually applaud? You actually applaud. But the fact is, the fast bowler has been rubbing the

08:13ball here. And what has that done to his pants? It's all red. A huge red patch, a huge red mark

08:23is now visible here. Do you see how dirty he looks? The fact is, there is value inside. When

08:32there is value inside, the fellow does not care too much for whether there is this, that. I didn't

08:39deliberately want it to be unclean. When I stepped on the ground, I was all clean. But now that it

08:47has become unclean, what can I do? Not that I deliberately want to appear unkempt and shabby

08:54and unclean. But if it has become dirty, so be it. My real value is not in my clothes, not in my looks,

09:02not in my makeup. So try to have real value in life. And then the misplaced emphasis on looks,

09:12etc. will be no more. By that I'm not meaning that you should target looking dirty and unclean.

09:22Please don't do that. Even that can become a trick of the ego. You can become deliberately

09:31unclean and tear your t-shirt and have soil on your face and tell others, you know what,

09:38you know why I look this way? Because I have value and you look clean. You look clean because you

09:51don't have value inside. Don't start doing that. Yes.

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