How to convince others to be Vegan? || Acharya Prashant (2021)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00So, Charuji, I see that I want to say a lot of things but I don't and I just be a coward.

00:19So for example, I saw a man whip a bull with a stick but he was doing it behind the ears

00:27under the chin where it really hurts and I wanted to go and just grab the stick and beat

00:33him with it or at least tell him something but I just ended up walking past and not doing

00:38anything.

00:39Similarly, over here in the restaurants, today when I was going to my hotel, there was this

00:47man with this plate of eggs and then this is supposed to be a city where everyone is

00:51supposedly very pious and holy and I wanted to smash the eggs on his face but I just walked

00:57up the stairs, passed him, I didn't even say anything but I was trembling inside and I

01:05noticed and when I do speak about it, so for example, when I told my sister that would

01:11you like someone to put his hand inside you and make you pregnant and then steal your

01:15baby so you could drink your milk, it comes off very harsh and I mostly take the way of

01:26not rocking the boat because it would take a lot of, I wouldn't be able to walk 10 meters

01:33without saying anything.

01:35How do, I guess, one, why am I such a coward and two, how do I get to that stage where

01:43I can give the sage counsel in a way that you do which is very gentle.

01:50When I do it, it comes off with a lot of force and…

01:54Whosoever tries it with his family members meets the same end.

02:00So I might come across as gentle when talking to you all here but when I tried on people

02:08who have been intimate to me, the result is much the same, hardly any difference.

02:14On one hand, you have to be vigorously eager, energetic and enthusiastic about this cause.

02:30On the other hand, you also have to be skilled and thoughtful like a good soldier.

02:43A good soldier does not waste himself on unnecessary battles, he preserves himself.

02:55The one who is whipping the bull can be stopped but here is my energy and my resources, let's

03:05say they amount to 100 units.

03:08What if 20 or 30 units of them are expended in just stopping this one petty fellow?

03:16It's not one bull that I want to save.

03:20I want to save the billions of living beings that are being slaughtered every day.

03:27But if 30% of my energy would be expended in this one particular cause, then am I not

03:33doing injustice to the rest of the ones that deserve to be saved?

03:38Are you getting it?

03:42So while you have to have that fierce fire within, on the other hand, you have to remember

03:50that the soldiers are few and they cannot afford to waste themselves on little things.

04:02You very well know how badly outnumbered you are.

04:09You won't want to get into something that lands you in lockup or in courtroom battles.

04:18You would rather have a lawyer for all that.

04:20Let the lawyer take care of those things.

04:26The spiritual soldier, the religious warrior has to be extremely intelligent.

04:43You could go to the extent of saying that he has to be cunning in the service of truth.

04:51I am choosing this word with all deliberation.

04:55He has to be cunning in the service of the truth.

05:00Cunning enough to beat the most cunning ones.

05:06The difference between the cunningness of the two is that all the cunning ones have

05:14cunningness at their core.

05:18The soldier of truth has truth at his core and cunningness at the service of truth.

05:28Are you getting it?

05:34Just go to the battle of Mahabharata.

05:38There are so many occasions when Krishna tells Arjuna, this is not the time to pick up drones.

05:48Just obediently, respectfully go past him.

05:56Today is not the day Arjuna, don't pick up this battle.

06:06And then he tells, Drona won't give up his arms so easily.

06:18Has to be Ashwatthaman Hatho, Narova, Kunjarova.

06:33Getting it?

06:34First of all, you have to have Krishna at your center.

06:41And if you have Krishna at your center, use Maya very liberally.

06:50That's what my teacher says,

06:52जा ठगने ठगनी ठगी ता ठग को आदेश.

07:02She cheats all, but she can be cheated.

07:21No need to remain a simpleton.

07:27The image that we carry of the prophets, the saints, the sages, the rishis is very misleading.

07:37The way they have been presented to us is very conducive to our falsenesses and darknesses.

07:47We have been told that they were fellows who really did not have much to do with what was

07:52going on in the society, almost like handicapped grandfathers at home, who can do little except

08:08dispense sage council.

08:13That's what all the oldies do at home, octogenarians and nanogenarians.

08:18The fellow is 94, what else can he do?

08:22He sits all day and talks, to the extent possible.

08:28That's how we have painted our sages.

08:34They were the ones who were not capable of doing much, but they kept on talking of all

08:39the nice things in life.

08:43They kept dispensing moral values, probably, you should be good, as he said, do not lie

08:53to people, sada satya bolo.

08:57This kind of model of spirituality, I say, is conducive to nothing but falseness, evil,

09:08irreligiosity.

09:10The man of truth has to be extremely sharp here and this sharpness has to be devoted

09:15to this.

09:18This has to be used as a resource.

09:21Everything that you have has to be used as a resource.

09:25You know business management, yes, I'll use that in the service of the truth.

09:32You know a language, yes, I'll use that.

09:35Whatsoever you have, including your cunning, if I have a sharp intellect, when everything

09:44is to be used for the sake of truth, why not your sharpness?

09:54Why not, tell me?

10:00You have to beat them at their game and you'll beat them because they play for themselves.

10:09So a point will come when they'll be afraid, they have too much at stake, they're doing

10:22it for their own self.

10:25You play the game for something beyond yourself, you'll never be afraid.

10:30In spite of drastically fewer resources, you'll still beat them because you'll not

10:38be afraid.

10:45A part, a huge part of their resources will go towards defending their self and as far

10:52as you are concerned, everything that you have can be applied, deployed.

11:03So think, intellect, reason are very very important resources.

11:10They have to be used.

11:11You have to see how things can be done.

11:13This is no way.

11:17People like you might just be 40 in number in this entire city and if out of those 40,

11:2812 start picking street fights with bull owners, then who will fight for spirituality?

11:41Maya will have a hearty laugh, 12 out of 40 are gone fighting a minor battle.

11:56Every time you walk past a meat shop or you come across a menu containing a lot of flesh,

12:03let that harden your resolve.

12:09No point throwing that menu on the waiter's face.

12:12The waiter is a puny fellow.

12:16He didn't even write the menu.

12:17He has nothing to do with, not even the manager.

12:20What can the manager do?

12:22Not even the owner.

12:23There are bigger forces at work and you know, what are those bigger forces?

12:27They are not a person.

12:30Those bigger forces are all of us.

12:34The darkness within the human mind, the darkness pervasive in mankind is the larger force that

12:40is making all those things possible.

12:43The only way to defeat that menu card is to remove the darkness in the mind of men.

12:52Getting it?

13:04It will hurt.

13:05You will see all these things happening, it will hurt, but use that hurt as a resource.

13:15Don't pretend that you aren't hurt.

13:19Catch the hurt and be even more charged up using the hurt.

13:25Yes, I am hurt and I will take out every bit of it on you in an intelligent way.

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