Video Information: 10.12.22, Mithibai College, Mumbai
Context:
~ How to avoid addictions?
~ How to quit smoking?
~ How to quit bad habits?
~ What is the purpose of life?
~ Why are we easily distracted?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ How to avoid addictions?
~ How to quit smoking?
~ How to quit bad habits?
~ What is the purpose of life?
~ Why are we easily distracted?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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LifestyleTranscript
00:00 Namaste Sir, my name is Vibhamishtha, I am for FYGC Arts.
00:06 Basically my question is, in this teenage years, how do we avoid social events like
00:11 bad addiction and bad activities which exist in society and just focus on our goal?
00:18 For that the goal has to be alluring enough.
00:21 Thank you.
00:23 The goal has to be captivating enough and then all kinds of addictions and wastage of
00:32 time, energy, effort, money, that will just not happen on its own.
00:38 Tell me, when you are doing something really meaningful, do you find you have the inclination
00:49 to just get up and go elsewhere and waste time?
00:53 Does that happen?
00:54 That doesn't happen.
00:57 How many of you play cricket for example?
01:00 Today we had a swashbuckling innings by one of the players, so cricket.
01:06 So how many of you bat?
01:10 How many of you bowl?
01:13 Has it happened that in the middle of your run up, you have stopped, taken out your mobile
01:19 and ordered a pizza?
01:23 Has it happened?
01:24 Or the bowler is coming at you and you say, "Please stop.
01:33 I want to gossip with the wicket keeper."
01:36 Has that happened?
01:37 Why does that not happen?
01:42 Why does that not happen?
01:47 Because you are in attention, out of your own volition.
01:56 You know what is happening, you are in the game and you love being in the game.
02:02 Nothing else is on your mind and that's the best way of living, is it not?
02:09 One thing and nothing else on your mind.
02:11 Could we be on the crease forever as the batsmen?
02:15 Wow!
02:16 Unfortunately, life gets us out every time.
02:19 Some wicket you occur and the stumps are shattered and we have to return to the pavilion.
02:26 And what happens in the pavilion?
02:29 All kinds of distractions now.
02:33 All kinds of… and somebody is ready for a fight and somebody is sleeping too much,
02:38 somebody is eating too much, somebody is smoking too much, this, that, somebody is gambling
02:42 too much.
02:45 Now all kinds of things can happen.
02:48 But nothing of that sort will happen when you have the ball or the bat in your hand.
02:54 Why not continuously be on the crease, I am asking you, please.
03:02 Same applies to all kinds of sports.
03:05 Cracket sports, tennis, badminton.
03:09 In the middle of a badminton rally, how many of you have stopped to scratch your back?
03:15 Please stop and you have ordered the shuttle to just keep hanging there.
03:21 You know I need to scratch my back a bit.
03:24 Yes, shuttle.
03:26 Does that happen?
03:27 Why can't we forever be in the middle of a rally?
03:33 That's what you know life actually is, by the way.
03:36 It's a rally.
03:38 It's a rally between you and the one called Maya.
03:44 You can also call her life itself.
03:49 How do you find time to be distracted?
03:55 You are losing all the points if you are getting distracted.
03:59 Are you not?
04:02 Temptations, addictions, distractions, none of these can be avoided if you do not have
04:12 a great central purpose in life to love.
04:22 Forever be spread out, scattered, always be concentrated densely at one place.
04:37 There is just one thing.
04:41 The wise ones from all places, all times and all streams have always talked of the one,
04:49 one, one.
04:51 Keep spirituality apart.
04:54 That oneness, that unification is the central thing in life.
05:02 Have some one thing and forget everything else.
05:10 You will say, but how do I identify that one thing?
05:15 You will keep trying out.
05:18 Let life be a continuous movement towards that one thing.
05:22 If you cannot concentrate on that one thing, then concentrate on getting that one thing.
05:35 Always believe that you are destined to be the highest and to reach the greatest spot
05:44 possible.
05:45 Therefore, never settle down.
05:48 Always keep asking yourself, how do I evolve?
05:51 How do I learn?
05:53 How do I be better?
05:55 How do I move on?
05:58 No place is your final destination.
06:01 Are you getting it?
06:04 And when you have your eyes firmly set on greatness, then all kinds of distraction will
06:15 appear very kiddish.
06:18 It's like we are talking to each other and one among you is looking around for lollipops.
06:26 Is that likely to happen?
06:30 Something extremely important and very engaging is going on and one of you is looking around.
06:40 Does somebody have Hajmola?
06:45 Is that likely to happen?
06:46 No.
06:48 But all our lives that's what we are doing, looking around for lollipop, Hajmola, something.
06:55 Because we don't engage life enough.
06:58 Don't live on the surface of life.
07:01 Dive deep into it.
07:03 When you do something, get into it.
07:07 When you read, read fully.
07:09 Get into what is being said.
07:11 Don't just turn pages and complete formalities.
07:15 When you listen, listen deeply.
07:18 Be fully present.
07:20 Keep everything else aside.
07:21 Just listen.
07:22 What's happening?
07:23 What's really happening?
07:24 Turn this into a habit.
07:28 When I listen, I listen.
07:29 When I play, I play my heart out.
07:36 I don't care for injuries.
07:38 I don't care for victory either.
07:41 I just play my heart out.
07:46 Then all the trivia and trash that surround the usual life, you will find they are very
07:54 distant.
07:58 [Music]