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Video Information: 12.01.23, BITS, Goa
Context:
~ What is the Highest work to do?
~ How to choose what to do in life?
~ How to not be fearful?
~ How to bring real change in life?
~ What is the purpose of life?
~ How to not surrender in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 12.01.23, BITS, Goa
Context:
~ What is the Highest work to do?
~ How to choose what to do in life?
~ How to not be fearful?
~ How to bring real change in life?
~ What is the purpose of life?
~ How to not surrender in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Sir, you always talk of filling life with the highest work possible, I want to know
00:08what exactly is that highest work you repeatedly refer to?
00:12We know of what is not high, right?
00:15When we are talking of filling our lives with the highest possible, that's actually not
00:23a constructive process.
00:26That's not actually a process of filling up.
00:31That's actually a process of draining out or emptying.
00:37Empty your life of what is not high.
00:40That's what I mean.
00:41So, you have to interpret my statement in negativa.
00:47When I say fill yourself up with the highest, what I actually mean is drain out the lowest.
00:56Getting it?
00:59Drain out the lowest.
01:00And don't you know what is low in your life?
01:03What is low in your life?
01:04Just a few examples.
01:08My life, gluttony.
01:11One of the things.
01:12I have a lot of other stuff as well.
01:16Instant gratification.
01:17Instant gratification.
01:18Pleasure.
01:19Yes.
01:20What else is low in life?
01:21Sleep.
01:22Fear.
01:23Yes.
01:25Yes.
01:26Fear.
01:27Come on.
01:28Let's fight it out.
01:32Fear is something that energizes me because it comes so often to terrify me.
01:38And when it comes, I say, right now, now is the time for a duel.
01:48I don't always win, obviously.
01:52But I try to give it a good fight.
01:57At least that much I am capable of, right?
02:00You too are capable of that.
02:01Are we different?
02:03Does fear come to you?
02:06It comes to me as well.
02:08Can you fight fear?
02:12That's what I try for.
02:14Simple.
02:15Drain out the lowest.
02:18If fear is the lowest, my duty in life is to at least not be knocked out in the first
02:29round.
02:30Come on.
02:31Deliver a few punches.
02:33Do something.
02:35Show that you are a human being, a man of some kind.
02:40Too difficult, is it?
02:46Impractical.
02:49Impractical.
02:52So, it is for, you know, young people, we have now grown a bit too old to hear of these
03:01things.
03:02Now is the time to retire and go into sannyas.
03:07Is that the reply?
03:10But I hear that from your faces.
03:13Too old?
03:19Do we have only young man here?
03:23Only one young man here?
03:34Come what may.
03:37If it's not something that adds dignity to life, let there be some steel within.
03:53Don't surrender easily.
03:55And when you don't surrender easily to things like fear, that is what is called spirituality.
04:05That's what is called real surrender.
04:07To not to surrender to the lowly things, that's what is spiritual surrender.
04:15Spiritual surrender does not mean you bow down to some imaginary God.
04:22It means I do not surrender to things like fear and temptation and stuff.
04:29No, I don't surrender.
04:35They come to me and what do they get from me?
04:44Allowed no, with a thundering punch, no.
04:48That's what my response is and that's what Vedanta is, allowed thundering no.
04:55Interestingly, the very method of Vedanta is called neti neti, no, not this, not this,
05:06not even this, no and that's the mark of a young person, a young boy, a young girl.
05:15He meets life with a great no and when you have no towards this usual kind of life, that's
05:24your resounding yes to real life.
05:29On the other hand, if you keep saying yes to all these things that you see around yourself,
05:35then you have said no to the real thing.
05:40You don't need to say yes to the real thing, that's not needed.
05:45Just keep saying no when needed.
05:48And as life is 99% things that are there in life deserve to be replied with a no.
05:58That should be your stock reply, no.
06:04And they don't always come to you with verbal temptations, they simply put a billboard in
06:11front of you, there is a highway and there will be five billboards, they must be replied
06:29to because they are proposing something to you.
06:34Are they not?
06:35What are they saying?
06:36They are saying, we propose happiness to you, buy our stuff and you will be happy.
06:44So stand there, look at the billboard and say no, no.
06:59Are you getting it?