Scared to confront others for veganism? || Acharya Prashant (2021)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00So Acharyaji, 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 anything.

00:40Similarly over here in the restaurants, today when I was going in my hotel there was this man

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

00:52pious and holy and I wanted to smash the eggs on his face but I just walked up the stairs past him,

00:59I didn't even say anything but I was trembling inside and I notice I and when I do speak about

01:08it, so for example, when I told my sister that would you like someone to put his hand inside you

01:13and make you pregnant and then steal your baby so you could drink your milk, it comes off very

01:20harsh and it mostly, I mostly take the way of not rocking the boat because it would take a lot of,

01:30I wouldn't be able to walk 10 meters without saying anything. How do I guess, one, why am I

01:39such a coward and two, how do I get to that stage where I can give the sage counsel in a way that

01:47you do which is very gentle, when I do it, it comes off with a lot of force and.

01:54Whosoever tries it with his family members meets the same end. So, I might come across as gentle

02:02when talking to you all here but when I tried on people who have been intimate to me, the result

02:10is much the same, hardly any difference. See, on one hand you have to be vigorously eager, energetic

02:22and enthusiastic about this cause.

02:27On the other hand, you also have to be skilled and thoughtful like a good soldier.

02:41A good soldier does not waste himself on unnecessary battles.

02:47He preserves himself.

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

03:05they amount to 100 units. What if 20 or 30 units of them are expended in just stopping this one

03:13petty fellow? It's not one bull that I want to save. I want to save the billions of living beings

03:24that are being slaughtered every day. But if 30% of my energy would be expended in this one

03:31particular cause, then am I not doing injustice to the rest of the ones that deserve to be saved?

03:37Are you getting it? So, while you have to have that fierce fire within, on the other hand,

03:49you have to remember that the soldiers are few and they cannot afford to waste themselves on

03:59little things. You very well know how badly outnumbered you are. You won't want to get

04:10into something that lands you in lockup or in courtroom battles. You would rather have

04:19a lawyer for all that. Let the lawyer take care of those things.

04:22The spiritual soldier, the religious warrior has to be extremely intelligent.

04:42You could go to the extent of saying that he has to be cunning in the service of truth.

04:50I am choosing this word with all deliberation. He has to be cunning in the service of the truth.

04:59Cunning enough to beat the most cunning ones.

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

05:15at their core. The soldier of truth has truth at his core and cunningness at the service of truth.

05:29Are you getting it? Just go to the battle of Mahabharata.

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

05:51Just obediently, respectfully go past him.

05:58Today is not the day Arjuna. Don't pick up this battle.

06:02And then he tells, Drona won't give up his arms so easily. Has to be Ashwatthaman Hatho.

06:32Getting it? First of all, you have to have Krishna at your center.

06:40And if you have Krishna at your center, use Maya very liberally.

06:50That's what my teacher says,

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

07:21No need to remain a simpleton.

07:24The 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

07:46darknesses. We have been told that they were fellows

07:49who really did not have much to do with what was going on in the society.

07:55Almost like handicapped grandfathers at home who can do little except dispense sage council.

08:11Right? That's what all the oldies do at home.

08:16Octogenarians and Nanogenarians. The fellow is 94.

08:19What else can he do? He sits all day and talks to the extent possible.

08:27That's how we have painted our sages. Right?

08:34They were the ones who were not capable of doing much,

08:38but they kept on talking of all the nice things in life.

08:41They kept dispensing moral values, probably, you should be good, as he said,

08:50do not lie to people, sada sathya bollo.

08:54Now this kind of model of spirituality, I say, is conducive to nothing but

09:03falseness, evil, irreligiosity.

09:06The man of truth has to be extremely sharp here and this sharpness has to be devoted to this.

09:14This has to be used as a resource. Everything that you have has to be used as a resource.

09:22You know business management? Yes, I'll use that in the service of the truth.

09:28You know a language? Yes, I'll use that.

09:30You know a language? Yes, I'll use that.

09:35Whatsoever you have, including your cunning.

09:40Yes, I have a sharp intellect.

09:43When everything is to be used for the sake of truth, why not your sharpness?

09:54Why not? Tell me.

09:55You have to beat them at their game and you'll beat them because they play for themselves.

10:05So a point will come when they'll be afraid.

10:17They have too much at stake. They're doing it for their own self.

10:20You play the game for something beyond yourself. You'll never be afraid.

10:25In spite of drastically fewer resources, you'll still beat them because you'll not be afraid.

10:40A huge part of their resources will go towards defending themselves.

10:46A huge part of their resources will go towards defending themselves.

10:52And as far as 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. You have to see how things can be done.

11:13This is no way.

11:18Tell me, people like you might just be 40 in number in this entire city.

11:25And if out of those 40, 12 start picking street fights with bull owners,

11:37then who will fight for spirituality?

11:39Maya will have a hearty laugh.

11:4312 out of 40 are gone fighting a minor battle.

11:53Every time you walk past a meat shop or you come across a menu containing a lot of flesh,

12:01let that harden your resolve.

12:03Let that harden your resolve.

12:09No point throwing that menu on the waiter's face. The waiter is a puny fellow.

12:16He didn't even write the menu. He has nothing to do with, not even the manager.

12:20What can the manager do? Not even the owner.

12:24There are bigger forces at work and you know what are those bigger forces?

12:27They are not a person. Those bigger forces are all of us.

12:34The darkness within the human mind, the darkness pervasive in mankind

12:39is the larger force that is making all those things possible.

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

12:54Getting it?

13:04It will hurt. You will see all these things happening. It will hurt.

13:09But use that hurt as a resource.

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

13:18Acknowledge 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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