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Video Information: 25.02.23, Vedant Mahotsav Rishikesh
Context:
~ How to know what to choose?
~ What should one learn from Arjun?
~ What makes Arjun worthy?
~ How to attain perfection?
~ Why is there so much difference in what we say and what we do?
~ Does visiting temples makes one religious?
~ What is the real meaning of Dharma?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 25.02.23, Vedant Mahotsav Rishikesh
Context:
~ How to know what to choose?
~ What should one learn from Arjun?
~ What makes Arjun worthy?
~ How to attain perfection?
~ Why is there so much difference in what we say and what we do?
~ Does visiting temples makes one religious?
~ What is the real meaning of Dharma?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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LearningTranscript
00:00My question is, I want to compare Arjun with Dhritarashtra.
00:07So Dhritarashtra, even after listening to Gita via Sanjay, is not able to lose his darkness.
00:15And by not able to losing his darkness, what I mean is he is not able to take the side
00:20of Krishna.
00:21So why is he so compelled to not take the side of Krishna even after getting this knowledge
00:29of Gita?
00:30Why was he not enlightened just like Arjun?
00:33Similarly, Acharya ji, we are getting this knowledge through you, but I feel that sometimes
00:40in life, we are also not able to keep this knowledge with us.
00:45And we still take this in the life that are not in favor of Krishna's knowledge.
00:53So why is this happening?
00:57See, somebody comes and demonstrates a beautiful piece of merchandise to you, right, even lets
01:13you experience that thing a little.
01:23But you won't be able to benefit from whatever he is offering, if you are not prepared to
01:30pay the price.
01:34Arjun is being told to slaughter his kith and kin, that's the immensity of the price
01:42Arjun is paying.
01:44And therefore, only Arjun benefits from the Gita.
01:51Just because the Gita is demonstrated to you, you do not become entitled to take it home.
02:02You go to a car showroom, the fellow displays the best model to you, also allows you to
02:17have a test ride, answers all your queries.
02:26Does that mean you can drive the car home now?
02:32So that's what the Gita is demonstrated to so many people.
02:37A little bit of test riding also happens and it ends there.
02:49Because after that is the time for the cheque, where is the cheque sir?
03:01And the cheque was signed in red.
03:10No ordinary cheque, fight Arjun, fight.
03:14Does not matter who survives and who is slaughtered.
03:22So what you get depends on what you pay for, not what you like, not what is big.
03:32The world, life itself is a supermarket, everything is available.
03:37But you will get what you pay for.
03:44Thank you Acharya ji.
03:59That was the question I had today.
04:01Wonderful.
04:02Acharya ji, first of all, it is an honor asking you this question and sitting here in front
04:09of you today.
04:10Welcome.
04:11And I have a question related to today's session, where you have mentioned that wholeness comes
04:18from having a center.
04:21But sometimes I feel that, I mean, we do not know what is the right center basically and
04:30we feel whole with the superficial things, like in the morning we'll feel that, okay,
04:34I'm feeling very motivated.
04:36I'm feeling very good today and by the afternoon, it will be over analyzing things in our mind
04:41and then it just trembles.
04:43And by end of the day, I end up criticizing myself and then thinking that, you know, I'm
04:49not going on the right path.
04:51So how do we decide what is the right center and how do we, I mean, it becomes so confusing
04:59sometimes.
05:00You see, I could say the right center is Dharma or Krishna, but that remains largely figurative.
05:11So the more practical approach is one of negation.
05:16If things fall apart, if the center proves incapable of holding the mind together, then
05:30you should know that you are operating from a weak or false center.
05:38The center should be able to provide you integrity for very long, everlasting wholeness.
05:50The center should be so compelling, so beautiful, so indisputable, so inexorable that you just
06:03cannot manage to defy it or overrule it or whatever.
06:21If you'll ask me, what is that center?
06:25Give me a name, a definition, an address or something.
06:29No.
06:30Just keep discarding your loose centers.
06:38Keep progressing, keep moving, Charivati and that's the only way.
06:52Be good, become better.
06:57Life should be an unending journey in learning, in betterment, in dissolution, in reduction,
07:17in brilliance.
07:20That's what.
07:21Don't stop and don't ask for easy endings and quick conclusions.
07:32Have the appetite, the stamina to run a lifelong marathon.
07:43Don't be lazy.
07:45Wherever you are, that point can never be a final one.
07:55And if you have already reached a final point, what's the point living on?
08:01When your train reaches the destination, what do you do?
08:08What do you do?
08:10You unboard, you get out of it.
08:11So if you ever say you have reached the destination, I'll say, well, time to, right?
08:22So it's all right being in the train.
08:33Be a journeyman, a journeywoman, continuously.
08:46What's the need to conclude?
08:48What's the need to say the end?
08:55I would be speaking on the Gita, I don't know, sixth time, eighth time, don't know.
09:03And I really love being better each passing time.
09:33Too demanding.
09:50If the heart does not get tired pumping blood to the brain, why must the mind get tired
10:05of traveling?
10:11Why else is blood being pumped to your brain?
10:21Think.
10:24If you are not required to think anymore, what's the point in having an active brain?
10:40Yeah, that's all.
10:46Thank you, Acharyaji.
10:48That's it from me.