Video Information: 22.11.21, Shastra Kaumudi, Rishikesh, Uttar Pradesh
Context:
~ How to break our comfort zone
~ What gives power to change life
~ What is love?
~ Who dare to take risk in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ How to break our comfort zone
~ What gives power to change life
~ What is love?
~ Who dare to take risk in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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LearningTranscript
00:00Acharya ji, the next participant is a finance professional.
00:07She has been listening to you for a year or two now, attended a few camps.
00:13She says, Pranam Acharya ji, why is going against yourself always so tough?
00:24I find that I get overpowered by pleasures whenever I try to take steps towards the right
00:30direction.
00:33And then I find myself quitting very often.
00:36Kindly help me with my state.
00:39You need love.
00:41You need love.
00:43Only love can trump pleasure.
00:54The joy of love overpowers all kinds of material mental pleasures.
01:12And only love can do that.
01:20Because it is indisputable that when you want to go against yourself and you face physical
01:36mental hardships, it appears so normal, so logical to stop punishing yourself.
01:48You say, what am I doing all this for?
01:54Why can't I live a normal life?
01:58Why do I need to deliberately punish myself so much?
02:06If you don't have love, you won't have an answer.
02:14Only love can make you commit the kind of madness that is needed for realization.
02:30Spirituality, seen from the view of the ego, is insanity.
02:49From the point of view of the ego, spirituality is insanity.
02:54You require that insanity.
02:57And only love can make you go insane.
03:05Otherwise, pleasures are just so overpowering, they captivate you.
03:16Pleasures are an intoxicant.
03:21To beat pleasures, you require an intoxicant even bigger.
03:36Pleasures make you go mad.
03:40To beat that madness, you require a madness even bigger.
03:47And that can come only from love.
03:52Otherwise there can be no logical reason why one must make himself or herself suffer.
03:59The question will be in pursuit of what?
04:02And you will have no answer.
04:04Because liberation is no thing.
04:07You cannot tell yourself, I am putting myself in distress to obtain that particular goal,
04:19to get that particular thing.
04:22Liberation is no thing.
04:25So the logical question will be, what for?
04:31Why so much discipline?
04:35Why are you being so tough with yourself?
04:38Don't you have some self-love?
04:43Please be kind to yourself.
04:48And you will have no answer to such inner voices.
05:02Only love can make you obstinate to the extent that you stick to your guns even without having
05:11an answer.
05:15You have no answer, you have no defense, yet you continue doing what you do.
05:25That happens only in love.
05:28The interrogator is shrieking at the top of his voice, kindly explain and you have
05:33no explanation to offer.
05:36And he says, if you have no explanation to offer, then mend your ways.
05:40You say, no, I would neither explain nor change.
05:49I will not explain because I genuinely do not have an explanation.
05:58And I won't change because I am helpless.
06:01I genuinely cannot change.
06:05If I remain unreasonably mad, I'll be mad without knowing why I must be mad.
06:23You cannot convince yourself to fall in love.
06:34You cannot convince yourself to go for freedom.
06:40If you do not have love for freedom, no logic for freedom can convince you.
06:51There are some places where logic cannot supplant love.
07:01How do you convince somebody that freedom is important?
07:05Either it is self-evident or it is impossible to explain.
07:15How is it self-evident?
07:16It is something a priori.
07:21You know it without somebody having to tell it to you.
07:28You just know it.
07:31You just know it.
07:32I love freedom.
07:33Why?
07:34But I just love freedom.
07:36That's my nature.
07:37There is no reason to it.
07:39There is nothing behind it.
07:42It is an uncaused love.
07:47It is not a product of something.
07:49It has no cause.
07:52It just is.
07:55So either it just is or it never is.
08:01It cannot be made to appear.
08:08No, I am not trying to discourage or disappoint.
08:22It is not possible to coerce someone to fall in love.
08:32But you can create conditions in which the barriers against love get weakened.
08:45What are the barriers against love?
08:48The biggest barrier against love is the routine life.
08:56The routine life has been set purposefully in the kind of routine that forbids love.
09:09You will have to break away from your routine life if you want to give love a chance.
09:19Because the routine life is not incidentally routine.
09:27That routine comes with a hidden nefarious purpose.
09:34The purpose is that love should not blossom and the routine should continue.
09:40Love is the death of that routine.
09:43For the routine to exist, love must be nipped in the bud.
09:48Are you getting it?
09:54So get away from your routine.
10:01Make yourself available to threatening experiences.
10:15Go beyond your cocoon of safety.
10:40Remember that the inner and the outer go together.
10:44If you want to change the inner, you cannot keep insistent on the outer.
11:04Let your environment change, let your company change, let your experiences change.
11:15Ensuring that your experiences do not change is ensuring that the experiencer never changes.
11:30And the experiencer is suffering.
11:34You don't change your experiences, you continue suffering.