Full video: Your hero is a scoundrel || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Bombay (2022)
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00:00It's a great tragedy when the ones who are influential are neither intellectual nor spiritual.
00:06Your role models are very unworthy people.
00:09And they are role models exactly because you find them consuming a lot and you all aspire to consume that much.
00:16So they become your role models.
00:17You say, wow, somebody asked a famous soccer player and he says, I have 20 cars.
00:22All luxury ones.
00:23And that simply charms you so much, wins you over.
00:2620 cars.
00:285 Rolls Royce.
00:30Not one but multiple private planes.
00:32Super expensive yachts.
00:34Yachts to take care of yachts.
00:36That's what we all aspire for.
00:38We all have been taught wrongly.
00:40We have been trained wrongly.
00:42Life education, we have been deprived of.
00:45So all that you want through all that you do is consumption.
00:50What do you live for? Consumption.
00:52How do you know a fellow is doing well in life?
00:54He's able to consume a lot.
00:55When consumption is the ideal, climate change is the result.