Full Video: We are all just atoms. Then why do we fight so much? || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)
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00:00Can pure material ever love?
00:02Can material cry?
00:04Can material deeply long for something?
00:06It's alright.
00:08The body is material.
00:10But then there is something within that is not material.
00:12It is not material.
00:14But it is heavily discontented.
00:16It is unfulfilled.
00:18And it wants fulfillment.
00:20And it does not know how to get there.
00:22So in its lack of knowledge.
00:24What does it do?
00:26It tries all kinds of material possible.
00:28Including narcotics.
00:30Drugs.
00:32Because they too are just objects, substances.
00:34So you try even that.
00:36Maybe this will satisfy me.
00:38Maybe that will satisfy me.
00:40Money might satisfy me.
00:42Entertainment. Excitement.
00:44Drugs. Knowledge. Power.
00:46Sex. Sports. Whatever.
00:48Man has tried everything.
00:50Tourism. Wanderlust.
00:52It is extremely important to study that.
00:54That which you really are.
00:56A thirsty consciousness.