Full Video: (Gita-2) Our strong tendency to resist the Truth || Acharya Prashant, on Bhagavad Gita (2023)
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00:00The entire thing about reproduction is the furtherance of your own DNA.
00:04That's what the animal inside us wants.
00:07My DNA should continue.
00:08My DNA should continue.
00:09So now you know why when you propose adoption as a substitute to reproduction,
00:15people don't find that very appealing.
00:18And they'll not know.
00:19You'll ask them for some logic, some argument.
00:21They'll not know.
00:22You say you adopt a little baby.
00:24Is it not the same as having your own?
00:26They'll not know.
00:27They'll not know because the animal inside lives in darkness about itself.
00:33It lives in a very dark cave within where it cannot see even its own face.
00:38So it does not know itself.
00:40That's the reason we have feelings.
00:41But we do not know where those feelings come from.
00:44You want to have a baby.
00:45Somebody asks you, why do you want to have a baby?
00:47You'll not know.
00:48Because the animal has no self-knowledge.
00:52The animal is not designed to know itself.
00:54The animal can act but never know why it is acting.