Animal Instincts || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: Vibes, Energy, Aura: New-age nonsense || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Guwahati (2023)
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00:00Look at the human male rushing after the human female and doing that all his life.
00:05And look at the monkey running after the female monkey and doing that all his life.
00:09How are these two any different?
00:10Internally, we are still animals.
00:12Our instincts, our feelings belong to the animals.
00:15We share them with the animals.
00:17Attachment you find in animals, you find in human beings as well.
00:20Jealousy, possessiveness, you find all across the jungle, also in cities.
00:26Human beings are so territorial, fighting for land.
00:30Look at Russia and Ukraine.
00:32And look at the dogs in front of your house.
00:35They too keep fighting for land.
00:37So we are doing all the things that animals do.
00:40You need not live by that.
00:41That's the reason why Vedanta continuously tells you, see, you are not the body.
00:47Naham dehasmi.
00:48What is that supposed to tell you?
00:51That you have no obligation to live by your bodily compulsions.