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Video Information: 23.01.23, DTU, Delhi
Context:
~ On Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti
~ What does Vivekananda and Subhas Chandra Bose have in common?
~ How can youth be brought closer to Gita?
~ What is the importance of the Bhagavad Gita?
~ Was Subhas Chandra Bose spiritual?
~ Was Bhagat Singh an atheist?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 23.01.23, DTU, Delhi
Context:
~ On Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti
~ What does Vivekananda and Subhas Chandra Bose have in common?
~ How can youth be brought closer to Gita?
~ What is the importance of the Bhagavad Gita?
~ Was Subhas Chandra Bose spiritual?
~ Was Bhagat Singh an atheist?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Pranam Acharyaji, my name is Ashank, I am a alumnus of this college, currently studying
00:12in IIT Delhi. Sir, today is Subhash Chandra Bose's Jayanti and as we know that like at
00:19the young age of 15 only he read the biography of Swami Vivekananda and subsequently he read
00:25the teachings of Ramakrishna Paramhansa and the Upanishads also and this is like not known
00:34mostly about this part of his life is not known apart from being a revolutionary and
00:41like and we also know that Bhagavad Gita was like the teachings of Bhagavad Gita was really
00:49inspirational for him and has a special impact on his life. So sir, my question is like how
00:55the youth of today can be brought closer to the scriptures so that we can have more
01:01revolutionary like him with having deeper understanding of life. See, there is no revolution
01:09possible without the Gita. We have lot of self-declared, self-appointed micro rebels
01:22these days. Everybody wants to be seen as fire brand rebel in his own right but there
01:33is no revolution possible without the Gita and when I say Gita, I do not mean a particular
01:38book, a particular scripture. By Gita, I mean a particular class of wisdom literature. So
01:46to me the Upanishads are Gita and anyway even if you just say Gita, there are at least
01:58two dozen Gitas that just I would have spoken on and most of them are truly remarkable.
02:12So when I say Gita that would also mean let's say the words of Ramana Maharshi or the discourses
02:21of Jiddu Krishnamurthy. There is no revolution possible without the Gita. Right? Do you know
02:32what I mean by the Gita? Yes, something that uplifts your consciousness that is Chetana
02:40from its prakritic slavery to liberation. Please pay attention. This is very important.
02:49I am glad this question came up. Your default condition at birth and in life is one of slavery.
03:04We do not realize that. In fact, it took the West very long to realize that otherwise
03:13the West kept saying man is born free but is found in chains everywhere. Who was that
03:19who said this? Lord Dickens. No, we are not born free. Birth itself is slavery. Birth
03:33itself is bondage. Have you seen a stillborn baby? Does it have any knowledge, any realization?
03:48Is it independent of its body? Is it free of fear, of temptation? Can it control its
03:57impulses? So when you are born, you are already a slave. In the moment of conception itself
04:07in the mother's womb, it is slavery that is conceived. So liberation has to be attained
04:14and because that slavery is so fundamental to this body, therefore a great revolution
04:22is needed and that revolution can come only from the Gita. By implication, if there is
04:30no Gita in your education, you are condemning yourself to lifelong slavery. How exciting!
04:39And that's the reason why even those who are not remembered particularly for their
04:51spiritual inclination, people like Subhash Chandra Bose, even they founded their core
05:04on Gita. When you think of the armed revolutionaries, Rajguru, Sukhdev, even Bhagat Singh, you
05:20do not think of them as particularly spiritual people, do you? You think of them as young
05:26dashing firebrands with guns in their hand. What is not shown to you is that they also
05:37had the Gita in their hand and some part of that propaganda has been deliberate. For example,
05:48we are told that Bhagat Singh was a die-hard atheist and the title of one of his books
05:56is often quoted. But if you really go into his life, very short lifespan he had, 22-23
06:05years, you will find he was a voracious reader and he had a great love for spiritual scriptures
06:10as well. There is no revolution possible without the Gita and if you are someone who thinks
06:22of the Gita as something old-fashioned and this and that, I won't even wish luck to
06:29you. No point wishing luck to you. Luck cannot save you. Finished. Game up. It's therefore
06:42very important to read on your own of the people in the world who have contributed in remarkable
06:55ways. Those people can be counted on fingertips but they are the ones who have made life worth
07:04living and if you go into the details of their lives, you will invariably find very strong
07:14spiritual imprints. It is impossible to be a great person in any field without being spiritual
07:22and being spiritual is not about conforming to the images of spirituality, wearing particular
07:29colors, following traditions or superstitions or rituals. No, spirituality is none of that.
07:39Spirituality is simply what our friend here referred to, an opening up of the mind,
07:46an awakening of consciousness. There is nothing esoteric, nothing mystical in it.
07:53What we are having here is a spiritual process. It's much the same as any other classroom lecture.
08:03There can be a textbook and there can be a syllabus and this field deserves that.
08:13It's called education of the self. Knowing what your mind is like. It's close
08:23to psychology. It incorporates elements of neuroscience as well.
08:30But it has one thing that sciences do not want to touch, the urge of the ego for liberation.
08:40Therefore, spirituality includes love, love of the highest order, the love of the ego
08:50for its liberated self, for its liberated state. That's not a state, but still.
08:58Are you getting it? If you are somebody who wants to really be big in life,
09:06then you must realize that bigness is the prerogative of what the Upanishads call as Atma.
09:16Atma Anant Asim. Not just big, but infinite, limitless, boundaryless.
09:25Bigness means nothing. If it ends somewhere,
09:32if it is circumscribed by a boundary, then what is big to you will be small to someone else, right?
09:39It's just a matter of having a bigger boundary.
09:43So, bigness has a meaning only when bigness means infinity.
09:48And everything about your body, your mind, your thoughts and material universe is simply finite.
09:56Therefore, bigness lies in being untouched from that which is small, meaning finite.
10:04Can I just see that the hunger within me is not going to be satiated by anything that is limited?
10:14So, why waste my time running after these small things? Because I already have had enough of a
10:23run. 5 years or 10 years of experimentation is sufficient. Even 2 years suffices. And I
10:31have seen, irrespective of how much I have of what this, this, this, this has to offer,
10:44there is an internal clamor for more.
10:48The world outside is innumerable. It can be put in numbers, right?
10:56Is there ever a number that is final? You can always add one more zero.
11:01And you just have 10% of what you had.
11:09Are you getting it? 10% is not something you can ever be satisfied with.
11:13And you were reduced to 10% just by addition of a zero to what you have.
11:20Therefore, the limited world is never going to satisfy you. And you deserve to be satisfied.
11:27You are not born to suffer. You are not born to remain restless.
11:32You are not born to keep feeling like a slave.
11:40Do you see how, when you talk of S. E. Bose, his quest for independence
11:52was actually a manifestation of his inner quest for liberation.
12:03Externally, politically, what was independence from British yoke was internally, spiritually,
12:13liberation from the default condition of prakritigat slavery. Internally, I want to be
12:26liberated. And the result of that internal fire is my external action. Do you see this?
12:37If you cannot have that internal fire within, your external action will just be lukewarm.
12:44There'll be no fire, no dynamite in it.
12:56You'll be always afraid of death. What kind of revolution can you do if
13:01it's the body that's always at the top of your mind?
13:07You require a Gita to tell you that this is perishable and would anyway go.
13:17Don't be too bothered about this. This is just a resource to be used.
13:23This is not a master to be served.
13:27You remain in that which remains whether this remains or not.
13:33You require a Gita to remind you that there is something that never gets destroyed because it
13:40never gets created. And therefore, there is no need to be afraid.
13:50It sounds so melodious when somebody says spontaneously,
13:56Let the body fall if it has to. I'll do what I have to.
14:01You see, it's not just about facing bullets. It's also about facing rejection and poverty
14:06and what not. Let's say you want to start something great as a business venture.
14:12What stops you? I'll tell you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
14:17And if you go into this fear of failure, you'll be in a state of fear of failure.
14:22What stops you is the fear of failure. And if you go into this fear of failure,
14:27you will ultimately find that it is the body that you are afraid of.
14:31What will happen to this body?
14:34What if I am pushed to the streets? What if there is no shelter over the head?
14:38So ultimately, the war is against the body.
14:44Therefore, it is the body that you must put in its place.
14:47Come on.
14:53When it comes to the body, we were just discussing yesterday or the day before
14:59in the Gita session. When it comes to the body, the Gita says,
15:05Tolerate.
15:08No point raising a big hue and cry. Tolerate.
15:15And when it comes to the right action, the Gita says, Yudhyasur, fight.
15:20Your job is to fight. And in the process of fighting, bear what you have to.
15:28Now do you see the metal that a boss is made of?
15:34Tolerate and fight. And you cannot say that if you are far removed from the Gita.
15:42I said, I won't even wish you luck if the Gita is not the core of your life.
15:50And when I said Gita, I hope I made it clear that by Gita I mean
15:55wisdom literature that pulls you up, that opens up the knots within.
16:01It could be the Srimad Bhagavad Gita or any other book.