Why is our Resistance Weak? || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00How is it that one people or one country fall so easily, whereas another people resist staunchly?

00:22How is it that the story of Kashmir in face of oppression is very different from the story

00:30of Punjab in face of oppression?

00:35Shouldn't you ask these questions or should you just become revenge thirsty and start

00:47acting emotionally instead of letting your independent discretion operate?

00:57Do you want to become a part of a mob and act in a very communal way?

01:10So whenever a disturbing fact comes to you, use it to learn something more about life

01:22and more importantly about yourself.

01:25It disturbs you because it pricks you at your pain points and if those pain points exist

01:33it means you have weaknesses.

01:36Let the disturbing fact be used to remove your weaknesses, then you will be stronger.

01:48Then there will be no need to yield to oppression.

01:55Then there will be no need to escape away from your homeland.

02:01Then you will have the courage and the abandon to fight a just battle right till your last breath.

02:23Are you getting it?

02:26Huge, important and impossible battles are not fought on back of emotions.

02:41Emotions are hormonal spikes.

02:46They cannot last long.

02:50If you want to do something worthwhile in life, you need the power of continuous, timeless

03:00understanding.

03:03Getting it?

03:07Great facts open the door to understanding.

03:27What people like me are feeling when we are getting emotional spikes and we need to understand

03:38that getting to know the facts is really important but we should control our emotional spikes.

03:45Thank you very much for explaining this.

03:51Prasad Acharya, the question says, Namaskar Acharya ji, when there was a discussion regarding

04:02Ukraine and Russia and regarding Kashmir files, what I had in my mind was that I don't have

04:09knowledge information on current affairs, social activities in the world.

04:16Even if someone tries to come and tell these things to me, I ignore and concentrate on

04:23my work and I continue with my work.

04:28I feel that the work that I do is more important than all these global affairs.

04:35So I conclude that self-work is much more important and only that much of worldly knowledge

04:51is needed that enables me to do my own work.

04:57Is my understanding correct?

05:01To the extent that it tells me of your devotion to your work, to that extent I admire what

05:11you have written, that you want to be so solely immersed in your work.

05:21I don't know what your work is.

05:23I hope it's a noble work, that you want to not just be immersed, you want to be marinated

05:32in your work, you want to soak in your work so that you don't need to know of anything

05:42and that's honorable.

05:47If you can come to that state where the world does not matter to you at all and where your

05:55work proceeds in isolation, wonderful.

06:02But now here starts the problem.

06:09It is very difficult to do anything in this world that is totally independent of what

06:17is happening elsewhere in the world.

06:24At a micro level, yes, that is something you can enjoy for a while.

06:30Let's say you make pots and you may very well say that how does the Russia-Ukraine

06:37thing affect my work.

06:41I make great pots and I put spiritual quotes on the pots, mugs, jugs, containers that

06:48I make.

06:50Mine is a beautiful work dedicated to the truth.

06:53I don't need to be bothered about Afghanistan or Ukraine.

06:57You can say that and what you are saying will serve you indeed for a while.

07:03But a point will come when this kind of watertight separation between the global happenings and

07:13your micro field of work will no more be sustainable.

07:24As long as you can continue to celebrate in your isolation, wonderful, but you won't

07:37be able to sustain it for long because everything is related definitely to everything else.

07:46One day a bomb may shatter all your pots and probably you may like to know where the

07:55bomb came from.

07:58Not just the plane that dropped the bomb or the country that dropped the bomb, but the

08:08human instinct that dropped the bomb.

08:13So investigating these global affairs or the social happenings around you is a good way

08:26to come to know of the human mind.

08:32That is the reason why you must have knowledge.

08:37The Upanishads put it very unambiguously.

08:46The one who has worldly knowledge but no self-knowledge falls in a deep well.

08:58And that's the verse you seem to have taken to heart.

09:05The one who has worldly knowledge but no self-knowledge falls into a well.

09:15So good so far.

09:20And then the very next verse, it says the one who has self-knowledge without worldly

09:29knowledge falls into a well even deeper.

09:42Lot of self-knowledge, no worldly knowledge, the Rishis are cautioning you will fall into

09:47a well even deeper.

09:51And then they say that the one who has both self-knowledge as well as worldly knowledge

10:02crosses over death and attains immortality.

10:11Which means now nothing can hurt you or harm you or obliterate you.

10:26When you take these verses together, do you know what you see?

10:30You see that the Rishis are saying that even self-knowledge is impossible in absence of

10:41worldly knowledge.

10:43Because the self, the self is nothing but an extension of the world.

10:51The self and the world are one thing.

10:55They are mirror images.

10:58That which you call as your self comes almost completely from the world.

11:04How will you know the self if you do not know the world?

11:09Therefore, in pursuit of self-knowledge, worldly knowledge is essential.

11:17Similarly, the world is but a reflection of the self.

11:25How will you know the world if you do not know the self?

11:29So to the scientists, the Rishis of the Upanishad will say, oh scientist, have some self-knowledge.

11:39Because you can never be a good scientist if you do not have self-knowledge.

11:46And to the spiritual seeker, the meditator, the Rishis will say, son, do not just sit

12:00enclosed in your dark cave, in your internal world.

12:09See how the world lives.

12:11Have knowledge.

12:12Know the ways of the world.

12:15See how the institutions operate.

12:18See how societies live.

12:20See how communities interact with each other.

12:24See how nations behave with each other.

12:27See how men and women behave with each other.

12:32See how history unfolds.

12:36When you know of all these, then self-knowledge becomes easier.

12:41Therefore, you must have both.

12:45When you have both, then you cannot be terrified.

12:52You cannot be deluded.

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