If Ram were to appear today || Acharya Prashant (2019)

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00:00Just think, if Ram were there in a bodily shape, in his mortal body and were he to see

00:20you celebrating his festival, what would he say?

00:28What would he say?

00:31He will call you, you come here, come here.

00:37You just did something, taking my name, hello?

00:44All this tamasha is in my name?

00:51He would be angered.

00:53He would say you do whatever you want to do, but why are you doing it in my name?

00:59Your life has no relation to mine.

01:08There is no sameness between you and me.

01:15You do not even love me at all, let alone worship me.

01:21Had you loved me, you couldn't have lived your life the way you do.

01:31Actually, you stand in firm opposition to me, Ram would say.

01:41If I look at the 364 days of your life, you stand really in firm opposition to me.

01:48And now on this 365th day, what a pretense you are making.

02:00I am the one who never cared for any worldly thing.

02:10I just pushed aside the biggest worldly thing that one can have, an entire empire.

02:21It was there for me to take it.

02:27I could have as well told Raja Dashrath, father, not done.

02:39I deserve the crown and the entire country wants me to be the king and Dashrath would

02:54have consented.

02:56He would have said fine, sir.

02:59But the moment my father said, leave the throne and not merely leave the throne, be gone into

03:16the jungles for 14 years, I said fine.

03:19That's the kind of person I was.

03:26Did I care for the comforts of the palace?

03:33Did I care for power and wealth?

03:38Did I care for the so-called worldly material good life?

03:46I didn't.

03:48And look at yourself.

03:50Even in the name of celebrating my festival, all you do is shop, shop, and shop.

04:01In fact, Ram's festival has become the festival of shopping, shoppers, and shopkeepers.

04:13Ram, who never had anything to do with shops, Ram, who was never a buyer or a seller or

04:25a consumer, Shri Ram who stands for that which can neither be bought nor be sold, his festival

04:35has been turned into an orgy of sales and discounts.

04:53How would he feel were he to reappear in a bodily form today?

05:01We shall just see.

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