Is killing for survival justified? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why is there so much violence in Prakriti? || Acharya Prashant (2019) Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSQdKedEKlA&t=0s  Video Information: Advait Learning Camp, 28.09.2019, Advait BodhSthal, Greater Noida, India   Context: ~ Why is Nature so violent? ~ How are we associated with the body? ~ Why does man need liberation? ~ Must man kill and slaughter in order to survive? ~ Why does man kill other animals? ~ Why is man destroying the nature? ~ Is there Universe without consciousness?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~

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00:00 Why for the survival of one species one must take another life?

00:06 That's how Prakriti operates.

00:11 Prakriti is a system in which there is no living being that can survive without another

00:27 living being.

00:28 When I say living, I mean consciousness in the loose sense of the word, consciousness

00:33 or sentience.

00:40 That's how the game of Prakriti operates.

00:44 It is an immoral game.

00:50 The question that you have posed is within the framework of morality.

00:56 You are asking why must one kill the other for his own survival.

01:00 This is coming from morality or this might be coming from compassion.

01:05 In Prakriti there is neither morality nor immorality.

01:11 There is neither compassion nor cruelty.

01:14 There is neither violence nor non-violence.

01:18 Prakriti is just Prakriti.

01:19 You can call it a giant machine.

01:23 In that machine it just happens that the lion must kill the deer.

01:28 Is that good?

01:29 No.

01:30 Is that bad?

01:31 No.

01:32 It is just as it is.

01:33 Because Prakriti has no need to be liberated.

01:42 Man is special.

01:44 In the entire Prakriti man is special.

01:48 Man has a need to be liberated.

01:50 So man is within Prakriti and is also a little out of it.

01:56 As if he is wanting to escape away from Prakriti.

02:00 If this is the domain of Prakriti, this hall, then man is on the door, on the threshold.

02:10 Half inside, half outside.

02:14 So he is Prakriti and he is also willing to be out of Prakriti.

02:20 That is why man is suffering so much, always.

02:27 Man has a need for compassion.

02:31 In Prakriti there is no compassion.

02:35 So the lion is not violent if it kills the deer.

02:40 Not at all.

02:41 But man is violent if he kills the deer.

02:46 Lion is not at all committing any sin if he kills the deer.

02:52 Because the lion has no option.

02:53 Plus the lion has no spiritual ambition.

02:58 Have you ever met any lion asking for liberation?

03:03 Any lion?

03:04 No.

03:05 The lion has no such need.

03:07 But man has that kind of a need.

03:09 And if you want to be liberated, then killing deer is probably not the best way.

03:20 So don't ask why in Prakriti does one thing kill the other.

03:26 It's an irrelevant question.

03:28 A relevant question would be, must man kill and slaughter in order to survive?

03:35 That's a relevant question.

03:37 Then the answer to that would say man can do that if man wants to remain within the hall.

03:45 Man has the option to remain within the area, the domain, the hall of Prakriti.

03:50 Or man has the option to just let loose and fly away, be independent.

03:56 If you want to remain Prakriti, then you can act like the lion and kill the deer and eat it.

04:01 And that's okay.

04:03 Depends on you.

04:06 But then you will be belonging to the jungle.

04:08 All that happens in the jungle.

04:09 In the jungle there is no need for liberation.

04:10 So anybody can kill anybody.

04:14 But if you want to be liberated and you want to move outside this domain, then you must not kill.

04:21 The advice is don't kill because within this domain of Prakriti, within the jungle, you

04:26 will not find peace.

04:28 You are not designed to find peace within Prakriti.

04:32 [Music]

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