Rape of the mind || Acharya Prashant (2018)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00But we call abuse as abuse only when it is explicit.

00:07I say explicit abuse is more apparent and is more honest because it does not seek to

00:16disguise itself.

00:18When you slap a person hard on his face, you are sending across a very loud, honest and

00:28powerful message.

00:30You are not concealing the message.

00:31You are not disguising it.

00:33You are not coding it.

00:42You are telling the person what really is going on.

00:50Far more rampant and evil and poisonous is the abuse that happens daily at workplaces,

01:02in our homes, the kind of abuse that is the bedrock of our civilization and culture.

01:11But we don't even call that abuse as abuse.

01:15When the body is offended or penetrated, we raise a big hue and cry and probably justifiably

01:22so.

01:25But when the mind is serially abused in a school, in a college, in a university, in

01:33a house, in a home, in a temple, in a mosque, in a church, in an institution, at a workplace,

01:41then we don't bat an eyelid.

01:47I'm asking you, were you abused in the past or are you being abused even today?

01:53Do you have kids?

01:54I don't know whether you have.

01:57Do you know how they are being abused in their schools?

02:00And that does not mean that somebody is fondling them in the genitals.

02:10Have you looked at their teachers?

02:13Have you studied their curricula?

02:19Have you seen what is entering their minds?

02:22Won't you want to call all that as rape?

02:26But no, we are extremely body-centered people.

02:30We agitate only when the body is offended.

02:35And when the body is offended, we'll run aghast, ah, body, body, somebody touched my body.

02:51And you have no concern for the mind.

02:58I'm not an advocate of physical rape, by the way.

03:04I'm pretty sure there would be many who would want to pounce upon this chance and declare

03:09me misogynist or whatever.

03:12They are welcome.

03:29I'll tell you what the rape of the mind is.

03:32When the mind has nonsensical purposes, that is rape of the mind.

03:37When things like stuff that happened in the childhood or teenage attracts you and dominates

03:46you, then the mind is being raped.

03:55Forgive me the cliched expression, but the mind needs a lover.

04:07And whenever the mind does not get to that lover, the mind lands in the hands of rapists.

04:22What is rape?

04:24When somebody enters a place that he should not have entered, that act is called rape.

04:36And that is why you have expressions like rape of the city.

04:42The enemy entered forcefully and plundered and that you called as the rape of the city.

04:50The entire world has entered your mind and is plundering it, destroying it, spoiling

04:56it, kindly be concerned.

05:01Your rightful purpose, your solitary purpose must be to move towards the solitary one,

05:11the lover.

05:12If you are engaged with any other kind of nonsense, this, that, this matters to me,

05:17that matters to me, he insulted me, she said something to me, this happened, that happened,

05:23then you are inflicting rape upon yourself.

05:29I know I'm sounding harsh.

05:32I'll punish myself later.

05:37Right now I need to do what I'm doing.

05:53We have become so habituated to getting, I have no other word, raped, that it does not

06:11even concern us how this whole social machinery has entered our sanctum sanctorum and is defiling

06:28it, desecrating it.

06:40You don't like it when you are defiled, but you don't bother when you are defiled.

06:46What kind of a person are you?

06:54When the ego gets hurt a little, then you start crying.

07:00But when life is getting wasted, minute by minute, it all appears normal to you.

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