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00:00We know very well that emotional human connection is extremely important to us, yet somehow we go on chasing the
00:08materials around us.
00:09Now what is more important, X or X square by X?
00:12They are both important on their own terms.
00:15You mean they are the same?
00:17What I mean to say is, what you are calling as emotional is just another name for...
00:26You cannot critique materialism by bringing in emotionalism.
00:30Immediate, what do you think the entire jewellery industry is for?
00:34The notification glows.
00:37It's a male from the HR.
00:39Sir, you have a 25% salary hike.
00:42Seen how the emotion flips?
00:43Immediate flip.
00:45Does that happen?
00:46Don't you see how tangible this thing called emotion is?
00:49We practice spirituality as sentimentality.
00:52Lot of people, yes.
00:53Yes, so we aren't supposed to materialize the existence of God in the name of spirituality.
00:58So doesn't spirituality beg for acquirance in any way?
01:03You already have so much.
01:04What will you do by acquiring more?
01:06The spirituality is also equal to singular belief.
01:10No, no, no, no, no, no belief at all.
01:11If there is a singular belief in singularity, even that has to be examined.
01:16In a positive way?
01:18No way, even positivity has to be examined.
01:21How?
01:23How do I differentiate between the thoughts that come from overthinking, fear, anxiety, stress,
01:28and the thoughts that are calm and guiding, that comes from within?
01:32Wait, wait, wait.
01:34Can I just reassert him?
01:36Can I just reevaluate?
01:44Good evening, Acharya Ji.
01:45I am Sarah.
01:46I am an engineering student first year.
01:49So, we live in a materialistic world, right?
01:53Where we, our entire personalities have been narrowed down so that we chase this tangible stuff around us.
02:01We know very well that emotional human connection is extremely important to us.
02:07We know that, yet we have somehow been subjected by the society to go after the material things that come
02:17and go from time to time.
02:18We are aware that emotional intellect and emotional connection with human beings around us would not quite leave us that
02:26often as materials do.
02:27Yet, somehow, we go on chasing the materials around us.
02:32This is a materialistic world, like I said.
02:35How do I, as a person, who is constantly surrounded by this group of people chasing the tangible, not fall
02:43for this chase,
02:44and instead seek the emotional intelligence and human connection that is extremely important more than the materials?
02:54So, in the question, there is a juxtaposition between materialism and what the lady is calling as an emotional connect,
03:10right?
03:11So, the material and the emotional, they have been put alongside in a way of comparison.
03:23And the tone of the question suggests that she is finding the emotional part to be more important but neglected,
03:34right?
03:35She is saying there is the material aspect of life and then there is the emotional aspect of life.
03:42Out of these, the emotional aspect is more important but it is neglected.
03:48And there is a complaint implicit in the question, right?
03:54So, this is being compared to this.
03:57Now, what is more important, x or x squared by x?
04:04That's the comparison.
04:06What's more important?
04:08What's more important, x or x by y?
04:14They are both important on their own terms.
04:18You mean they are the same?
04:20They are not the same but they are important.
04:23No, assuming both are, x and y are non-zero rational numbers, fine.
04:28So, what's more important?
04:31x or x by x by a?
04:35Both are the same but they look very different.
04:39But they look so different, don't they?
04:43They look spectacularly different, don't they?
04:47x and ax divided by a.
04:51They look so different, right?
04:52And we want to compare and say in favor of x.
04:57x divided by a is being neglected and this is unfair.
05:03How does my position sound?
05:07How does my position sound?
05:09So, you are metaphoric.
05:11You are using x squared by a as a metaphor for the letter that I complain is being neglected.
05:16What I mean to say is, what you are calling as emotional is just another name for material.
05:24I specified materials being tangible.
05:28All emotions are tangible, show me one emotion that does not have a tangible material thing at its core.
05:38Show me one thing.
05:39It's another thing to fake.
05:41I might say, no, no, no, no, no.
05:43There is no material consideration involved in this emotion.
05:46But show me one emotion that is bereft of material consideration.
05:51Just that, ax upon a looks different, looks, looks different from x.
05:57So, we say, you know, it looks so bigger, so much bigger and so much more beautiful.
06:02And a is far more well-rounded and it is present above, it is present below.
06:07So, surely the emotional part is the more aesthetic part of life.
06:11No, sir, no, no.
06:13No, yes, yes, obviously, what we call as materialism must be critiqued.
06:23But materialism cannot be critiqued in the backdrop of emotion.
06:29Because emotion, too, is very much material.
06:34You cannot critique materialism by bringing in emotionalism.
06:40emotion was evolution's way of securing material continuity don't you see that
06:50what you call as emotions in human beings
06:54are present as you may call them emotions or feelings technically there's a difference between
06:59two but the difference is superficial much the same thing is present in beasts also animals also
07:07what do you think the animals are caring for every aspect of animal behavior has been very
07:17well explained to have an evolutionary basis even the emotions displayed by animals are nothing but
07:28means to secure tangible ends and the moment the tangible ends are no more needed or become
07:36redundant the emotion to evaporates the moment the day the calf becomes mature the cows emotion
07:51towards it subsides what was evolution prakriti biology waiting for what was the emotion all about it was
08:04prakriti's way of continuing the species of the cow the day the cow sees they're not even the cow does
08:16not really have to see in the manner of understanding or discretion it is a matter of the clock and
08:23the
08:23calendar it is inbuilt it happens in a particular week in a particular month the cow huh as we say
08:33the
08:33weaning away you know what that emotion is about and as long as the calf is little see how is
08:42strong the
08:43protective and the maternal emotion of the cow is just see see the employee is complaining so much oh this
08:54company i hated and toxic work environment and this and that and bloody hell who wants to be here huh
09:03the notification
09:04glows ten ten ten ten ten ten ten ten it's a male from the hr so you have a 25
09:10percent salary hike
09:13seen how the emotion flips immediate flip immediate what do you think the entire jewelry industry is for
09:22it is to flip emotions the man might be looking out cheating doing anything not keeping promises
09:35turning a plate doing anything but the moment he gets that five and a half kg necklace
09:45the emotions just turn upside down that's what the jewelry industry exists for what else
09:58you won't find too many love songs dedicated to physically unattractive women does that happen
10:07in fact that's the content of most of these so-called love songs what's the content you see how beautiful
10:14your eyes are and your hair and your body and your curves and all those things don't you see how
10:22tangible this thing called emotion is don't you think there is a clear physical and material basis
10:32that that is happening that's obviously happening so if there must exist a comparison or a contrast it is
10:41not between material and emotional it is between the material hyphen emotional which is one thing
10:49and must be hyphenated the material hyphen emotional and the spiritual and what is the spiritual about
10:59known that's not another material that's not another subtle kind of material by spiritual i mean nothing
11:05but the understanding of the material spiritual is not another kind of material it is the understanding of
11:14the material and the material in includes emotions thoughts intuitions feelings everything so you're
11:23right i i appreciate your your sentiment the place you're coming from one gets fed up of all this
11:28materialism everybody's running after this or that yes but the solution is not emotionality the counterweight
11:35the antidote to materialism is not emotionality because emotionality is another kind of materialism
11:41the antidote to materialism the antidote to materialism is understanding of the material do i understand the material
11:52do i understand my material self and its flawed longing for more material self do i understand that
12:05now that's a more gainful comparison
12:11are we together on this yes a line must be drawn but the line that you are drawing is at
12:18the wrong place
12:18you are drawing a line between material and emotional and emotional in its turn is again material so you're drawing
12:28a line
12:28between x and a x upon x the line does not mean anything you must draw a line the line
12:37must be drawn between the material emotional and
12:42the spiritual and spiritual i repeat is not another kind of emotion because most of us practice sentimentality in the
12:49name of spirituality
12:51i'm longing for a god and i'm weeping or imagining some kind of divine figure and dancing no that's not
12:57spirituality
12:57that's another kind of materialism that's very much materialism spirituality is about understanding
13:07whatever is going on and whatever is going on is material right only material goes on what moves is material
13:16so you mean to say that acquiring this emotional spirituality is not equivalent to materializing the
13:25existence of god i didn't get you repeat what you're saying no so you said there is another thing called
13:30the
13:31emotional spirituality sentimental yes yeah so we aren't like you said that we practice spirituality as
13:39sentimentality a lot of people yes yes so we aren't supposed to materialize the existence of god
13:44in the name of spirituality and then in turn how do i acquire this spirituality that you
13:51have just enlightened me about see material can be acquired we said spiritual is not material so
13:59spirituality cannot be acquired it can be understood no it is the understanding of the material and when
14:08you understand material you understand what it cannot give the flawed promises that material
14:14material seems to make so spirituality then is not a process of acquisition it is a process of negation
14:21we have beliefs spirituality is the process of dropping those beliefs spirituality is not about acquiring more
14:28material beliefs so doesn't spirituality beg for uh acquireance in any way you already have so much
14:37what will you do by acquiring more the mind why the mind is troubled and burdened so much because it
14:45is overloaded
14:46with concepts including concepts of god etc
14:50spirituality is about examining your concepts
14:54beliefs and then so spirituality is also equal to singular belief and singularity no no no no no no no
15:02belief at all if there is a singular belief in singularity or even that has to be examined
15:09in a positive way no way even positivity has to be examined and how how do you examine anything
15:19by not identifying with it by not attaching with it attachment is the core problem for the solutions
15:26that we inherit on you don't hold any of these notions you simply say here i am and my nature
15:31is to know
15:32i must know how do i know then how do you know anything how do you listen to me
15:39paying attention to you that's it so paying attention is the key obviously and you cannot pay attention
15:45if you are constantly holding beliefs if you already have beliefs about what i am saying yes those
15:52beliefs will not allow you to listen to me so i must acquire knowledge if i'm acquiring it let's say
15:58by putting aside the said beliefs that i already had within me yes and that is the only way that
16:03i can
16:04not acquire listen listen listen by listening i'm not acquiring anything i'm just and if listening
16:10becomes acquisition then you are not listening but copying yes yes yes yes that makes a lot of
16:19sense thank you i'm truly grateful to be able to speak for you
16:27pranam acharaji my name is khushya grawal and so sir my question is like to avoid the real life problems
16:34we like we face in our day-to-day lives we start consuming things like material things shopping or
16:41we start ordering food or we go through to the ott platforms or social media and to do the over
16:48consumption we are facing i think overall problems like climate change and uh and the animals are
16:54getting extinct so so what do you think that what actions can we take as like uh i'm a student
17:01and
17:01even if i'm a vegetarian the for the animals are getting extinct so what actions can i take as a
17:06student to create awareness and what can we do as a society whatever has happened has happened due to
17:15false belief actions come later beliefs come first right yes we do not just act we act out of some
17:27idea
17:28we act out of some notion out of some belief and beliefs reach the mind in many ways including the
17:38way of word
17:40so those who are destroying the planet today have probably heard a lot of false word
17:50it is the corruption and the destruction of mind that is causing the destruction of the planet so if you
18:01want
18:02to stop the destruction of the planet you will have to cleanse the mind of the false word
18:10a lot of people say but what will mere speaking attain sir this destruction that we are seeing all
18:17around is because a lot of foolish people spoke a lot of foolish things and they were not challenged
18:27their word penetrated the common mind and colonized it and it is their word that is now taking the form
18:37of
18:37action we are creatures of philosophy human beings don't just operate out of animal instinct they create
18:51mental models they create philosophies they create systems of thought and powered by those mental models and
19:02thought systems they proceed to act and destroy that's how we act right so before the destruction comes the
19:10mental model if you want to stop the destruction challenge the mental model the power of words speak
19:16speak speak speak as much as you can people who are corrupted because they were spoken to now people can
19:22be redeemed
19:23if they are rightly spoken to okay there is a lot of power in this world this man machine acts
19:33out of mental ideas
19:35and it is the ideas that stand corrupted so challenge and purify those ideas speak a lot
19:42and that's what i keep telling the community if you are sitting idle and not speaking you're contributing to
19:49the destruction speak as much as you can speaking is the biggest activism
19:58how else are you going to raise awareness when you say i want to raise awareness
20:03human beings have what is called as the punch again indri you have to reach them using only these
20:09either they must see something or they must touch something or they must hear something they must read something
20:17that's how you have to reach out show them make them listen use the power of social media
20:28like sir we can also see that some of the most powerful leaders of the world
20:31they think that humans are getting extremed and they're promoting
20:35intellectually you are their equal intellectually actually you're superior to them
20:41we know the ones you are referring to you are intellectually superior so without any hesitation
20:48come out and challenge on all four are possible yes sir
20:56yes sir hello sir good afternoon i'm pradji a first year b-tech student i've been reflecting on my
21:06thoughts lately and i wanted to ask you that how do i differentiate between my mind's noise and my true
21:12inner voice like how do i differentiate between the thoughts that come from overthinking fear anxiety
21:17stress and the thoughts that are calm and guiding that comes from within
21:22see you'll have to go into the content of the thought
21:28thought thought thought will always have you at one end and some content some object belonging to this
21:40big universe at the other end thought always will have these two ends one end is always you always you
21:49know so i might lose this mug i have not yet studied this book i need to reach that place
22:02what if i do not succeed in that exam you see two things always present here the subject and the
22:11predicate
22:12basic grammar but that grammar leans on psychology so i am there at one end of the thought
22:21and something else in the world is there at the other end of the thought right
22:27how important really is that other thing and how do i know that the other thing has importance
22:36that's what probably one would do well to evaluate how do i know that this object that i aspire to
22:45get
22:45or fear to lose is actually valuable how do i know i feel that i know it intuitively appears quite
22:56certain
22:58that the object is definitely valuable but wait wait wait can i just reassert in can i just reevaluate
23:10is this object that is dominating my mind really valuable because mind is nothing but a cluster of those
23:20objects and often we do not know how that object made its way into the mind
23:26do i know whether the object deserves space here thought is the relationship between the two ends
23:35at one end are you at the other end is that object right so instead of talking about thought
23:43we would do well to talk about the objects that we have chosen to place here in this this thing
23:51called
23:51the mind right obviously if it is here then somewhere there is a belief that it deserves to be here
24:01right it is important so it's here how do i know it's important how do i know now you are
24:08a btech first year
24:09student you know the logical method you know what it means to experiment and test you know what it means
24:17to
24:17verify and falsify how do i know that this thing that i am attaching so much importance to is really
24:25important and if it is important then all kinds of thoughts are welcome wonderful but if it's not
24:32important then that thought is what you called as noise that was your question right how do i differentiate
24:38between useful thought and noise that depends on the object you the ego self has chosen to relate
24:46itself to if that object is indeed valuable then the thought is all right but most of the times the
24:57objects that we carry
25:00are here only coincidentally only ignorantly we do not even know how something
25:10manage to sneak into our inner space into the mental space we don't even know sometimes we follow the crowd
25:21sometimes when we are asleep that is unconscious some object manages to to sneak in to break through
25:32uh like it happens at night the burglary and and and you'll be astonished when you will look at your
25:41mind
25:41stuff the content that you carry you'll be astonished how little of it has been consciously allowed by you to
25:50enter most of it never gained any conscious entry pass how did it manage its way in then you don't
26:00even know
26:01somebody implanted it somebody told you you can't even examine it often that also happens you know
26:07there are objects that are deemed so sacred that you are not even allowed to test oh this is something
26:14you must not question so just take it and place it here and not just place it here hold it
26:20so sacred
26:21that you worship it surrender to it bow down or here is this concept and concepts are also objects right
26:29anything that you can think about anything that you can visualize anything that can have a name
26:35anything that can be placed somewhere in space and time that is an object
26:40so some of those objects are just concepts that you soaked in because you found everybody else doing the
26:49same you said because everybody else is venerating this object so it must be all right
26:55or i trust these few people and they are carrying this thing on their head so it must be auspicious
27:05or useful
27:06so i too am carrying this now when those mental objects will have that unexamined quality
27:15then thought will be noise whenever the object of thought will be an unexamined one then the thought
27:24will be nothing but noise and also to extend the thing further
27:30this that is at the other end of thought what was at the far end of the thought what was
27:37at the far end
27:38of the thought the object what is at the near end of the thought the self the thinker right the
27:45thinker
27:45the subject these two are not really unrelated if you allow the object to stay unexamined
27:54then the thinker also remains unexamined also a useless object of thought renders the thinker useless
28:08if that which you are thinking of is worthless then the thinker too will slowly decay and become worthless
28:20hence it is very very important to be conscious of what you are allowing
28:26to enter your inner space it must be fiercely guarded it is your most valuable property
28:34right not everybody can have access to this sacred chamber that that it must be quite
28:42uh strict about it vigilant about it am i making myself clear or is it
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