Climate change etc have no scientific solution; their solution is spiritual ||Acharya Prashant(2019)

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00:00There is only falseness everywhere in my life.

00:18After the last satsang, I realized that I don't understand or internalize your teaching

00:22correctly.

00:23I work in a decently paying job which has no use for liberation except to help my aspiration

00:30to become financially independent and luckily have a few free hours which I spend with your

00:37videos or in spiritual shopping, which is another trick of my mind to run away from

00:48the present and honest observation.

00:52I have an aspiration to farm or garden and be out of the corporate world, but that too

00:58feels like false after the last satsang.

01:01My question is how to identify or choose right action.

01:05I am sharing some of my personal incidents with you, apologies as this might take more

01:11of your time.

01:12I have joined as a volunteer in a local community garden and I have a small space where I sowed

01:19some seeds directly and tried growing a few plants by starting them indoors.

01:27My mind can conveniently misinterpret and selectively forget and choose manipulate words

01:32to satisfy itself.

01:33I don't want this.

01:34I pray please guide me to act correctly and bless me to remember correctly as well.

01:41You want to do something good Gudhaman, right?

01:45And you want to do it in your spare hours.

01:49You have started a bit of a community garden it seems and there you are trying to sow some

01:58seeds and get a few plants and such things and you are asking, you know, what do I do?

02:10Alright, where is that graphic that was sent to me that showed the impact of various activities

02:28on global climate change?

02:44You all have this, right?

02:48This is there on the group as well, right?

02:51It is there.

02:52So those who are watching it may just look at it.

02:59So you see Gudhaman, this is how we live, you know, trying to do small small good things

03:22so that we can conveniently escape away from the fact that there is something humongously

03:28evil that we are doing.

03:33There is a lady who has been with us previously and she's into organic fruits now, selling

03:49this organic stuff, that organic stuff.

03:53If you go to her Facebook page or profile, you will find only two things.

04:00One, things about the organic fruits that she sells, I suppose, or distributes.

04:13And secondly, pics of her kids and very fond descriptions of what the kids are doing and

04:23this and that.

04:28There are two or three kids, I suppose, at least two are there.

04:37That's how we live.

04:39This graphic clearly shows the impact of various activities on climate change.

04:54What are those various activities?

04:56Going car free, activity one.

05:01Two, avoiding one transatlantic flight.

05:07Third, choosing green energy.

05:10Fourth, switching from electric car to car free.

05:15Fifth, choosing a vegan diet.

05:20Then replacing typical car with hybrid.

05:24Then washing clothes in cold water rather than hot water.

05:29Then recycling.

05:31Then hang dry clothes.

05:35Then upgrading to energy efficient light bulbs.

05:41And the title of the graphic is tons of CO2 equivalent saved per year for one person undertaking

05:47each action.

05:49And if I sum up the tons of CO2 equivalent that are saved from these ten actions, it

06:01comes up to hardly ten tons of CO2 equivalent.

06:15Even if I combine all these ten activities, it is not even ten, it is around eight.

06:27So combine these ten activities and all that you save is eight tons of CO2 equivalent.

06:38But all these ten activities are so popular.

06:43All the do-gooders are busy doing all these ten activities and they walk around with great

06:50missionary zeal and even greater missionary pride.

06:58We are trying for a clean world and green world.

07:03We are the do-gooders.

07:09We are responsible citizens.

07:12We are trying to save the earth from annihilation.

07:15We are doing all these ten things to make the earth livable.

07:21And how much do you save?

07:25Even if you do all these ten things, eight tons of CO2.

07:30And then there is this huge bar that corresponds to around 60 tons of CO2, which comes from

07:44doing a single action, which is having one child.

07:50We will not talk about that because this is where the ego lives.

07:56This is where the physical bodily tendencies live.

08:06The great elephant in the room will not be talked about.

08:12We will talk about killing cockroaches in the room.

08:15We will say, oh, there are mosquitoes in the room, or there is a lizard as well.

08:24And do you see those cockroaches hiding behind the almirah?

08:31And do I sense that the wood has termite?

08:37Let's remove all of this.

08:39They are occupying the room.

08:41But we do not talk about the elephant in the room.

08:46That's how do-gooders live.

08:51Let's plant two trees.

08:55Baby now that you are pregnant, let's go and plant one more tree.

09:05This is in the name of our would-be baby.

09:13How we want to hide our complicity in the great crime of killing this planet?

09:22By doing all those little, little good things.

09:28In fact, doing those good things is a great indicator that you are doing some great evil

09:36that you want to hide by doing some little good things.

09:45So all the elites living in the posh colonies and having a greatly big carbon footprint

10:01would be at the forefront of a tree plantation drive.

10:11Mrs. Mittal would get down from her swanky Mercedes and plant a tree and say,

10:21now let's see how climate change occurs.

10:29And after planting the sapling, she would get back into the swanky Mercedes and feel

10:38proud that she has done something for environmental conservation.

10:52All the liberal girls of Delhi University and JNU would say, you know, let's not use crackers.

11:08Let's not use polythene.

11:13Let's recycle.

11:17Let's bicycle.

11:21But ask them, are you prepared to go childless?

11:24No, no, no, no, no.

11:26If that means 60 tons of CO2 per year, so be it.

11:35I'm not going to fight against my hormones, my uterus and my body.

11:43That is something I'm not going to do.

11:45But otherwise I must be seen as very, very progressive and liberal and earth loving and green.

11:53I must be seen as quite green.

11:56But the one thing that is needed, really needed, that I will not commit myself to.

12:03The elephant in the room will not be addressed.

12:09About everything else, I will be liberal, very progressive.

12:21I will say, let's do carpooling.

12:24Let's do carpooling.

12:27And when I'm going to the maternity ward, I will use the pooled car.

12:34But going to the maternity ward is something that I would not compromise on.

12:40At best, I will use an electric car to go to the hospital.

12:47See how green I am.

12:51That's how we live, Gautam.

12:59Working in a firm that is denuding the earth, we work for 10 hours a day in a firm that

13:08is directly or indirectly denuding the earth, cutting down forests.

13:14I assure you, there is hardly any firm, any company that is not complicit in global warming.

13:27There is hardly any aspect of human business, international markets, production, distribution,

13:40logistics, shipping, marketing, that does not contribute to climate change.

13:48So you work in those firms throughout the day, and then you come back and devote two

13:53hours a week to running a community garden.

14:00And then you want to absolve yourself of the guilt.

14:03You want to give yourself a clean chit.

14:10This goes out to all the do-gooders who think that by donating two hours of their week to

14:17some green NGO, they will be able to wash the blood off their hands.

14:22You will not be able to wash the blood off your hands.

14:27You are killers, you are criminals.

14:33And on top of that, you pretend to be lovers of the planet.

14:37You pretend to be pro-life, progressive and liberal.

14:41You are not.

14:55You must be wondering why I'm speaking about this thing regarding procreation, regarding

15:01having kids, because this is the single most important issue facing you and me and the

15:08planet and the millions of species today.

15:13This is the one thing that man immediately today, this moment, this second needs to address.

15:21There is no greater challenge in front of mankind, not the third world war, not nuclear

15:25proliferation, nothing at all.

15:28This is the biggest challenge.

15:30Can you please either stop or limit having babies?

15:39This is the one challenge that nobody wants to talk about.

15:42If you can address this, then everything would be addressed.

15:46And this cannot be addressed merely by way of litigation.

15:49You require a spiritual movement.

15:52You require a deeply spiritual consciousness to understand what I'm saying and act on what

16:04I'm pointing to.

16:11Babies just don't fall from skies.

16:16They come from deep body identification and that deep body identification is the curse

16:23of this planet.

16:26Spiritual problems are not merely spiritual.

16:30They are biological, ecological, financial, international, everything, every problem of

16:36the world is arising from man's body identification.

16:44And the direct fruit of that body identification is the production of kids.

16:57You cannot limit the number of kids without firstly putting an end to this body identification.

17:08And if you don't bring an end to this body identification, even if you limit the number

17:14of kids, man will keep killing and being violent in other ways.

17:28So you have to address the root, Godhaman, and you cannot address the root by devoting

17:35two hours of your spare time and planting saplings that can at best give you some kind

17:51of inner satisfaction that you are doing something, that you are not entirely on the side of the

18:02marauders.

18:08Do the real thing.

18:10If you have been with this course since a while now, please do the real thing.

18:26Help bring about a spiritual revolution.

18:29Only that can save you, me, everybody, this planet, man's consciousness.

18:40Help bring about a spiritual revolution.

18:44Without that, planting two seeds and two flowers will not help.

18:57When the global temperatures rise by three degrees, four degrees, all these little baby

19:03flowers will wilt.

19:07Anyway, not too many species of flowers are going to remain to be planted.

19:16Do you know how many species we are losing every day, Godhaman?

19:20We are losing 200 species of living beings every day.

19:31Even as I responded to you, we probably lost 30 of them, 30 of them irretrievably, never

19:39to come back, gone forever.

19:49So do take pics of the little saplings for posterity's sake, if there is going to be

20:04any posterity at all.

20:14We do not see the linkage between body identification, consumption, procreation and devastation.

20:28We look at them as different things.

20:33This urge for development, what do you think, it has nothing to do with the devastation

20:41of this planet.

20:44What is exactly the definition of development?

20:48That which brings pleasure to you, that which brings comfort and convenience to you.

20:54That's how you define development.

21:00You want to fly rather than use railways.

21:07You want to use a car rather than, and most importantly, you want to have a full nest.

21:16You want to be husband-wife and Munnu-Munni.

21:21And if Munnu-Munni feel a bit lonely, then Tunnu as well.

21:32Don't you see how all these things are related?

21:36Don't you see how an absence of a spiritual consciousness is at the root of all problems?

21:45Even though the problems appear diverse and unrelated to each other, they have one common

21:51root.

21:54In the history of mankind, the time has come when without addressing that root problem,

22:01you cannot address any of the problems.

22:04And if you do not address the root problem now, there is going to be no tomorrow.

22:15Do you want to keep busy planting two saplings two hours a week, Kothaman?

22:20Or do you want to get into something real?

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