People We Respect || Acharya Prashant
Transcript
00:00 All the respect in the society belongs to people who are inaccessible.
00:04 That's why the most respectable books for us are the one we make neither head nor tail of.
00:10 Because we are full of contempt towards ourselves.
00:13 If a person becomes accessible, he does not remain respectable. Does he?
00:17 Somebody said familiarity breeds contempt. Somebody mischievously added - and children.
00:22 If you are familiar with someone, you become contemptuous towards him.
00:26 Because his crime, his only crime is that he became available to you.
00:30 Because he became available to you, you said he cannot be great. Had he been great,
00:34 why would he have been available to me? Look at me.
00:38 Therefore, I'll respect only the one who spits at me.
00:42 Therefore, anybody who talks to me face to face and treats me respectably is surely not worth anything.
00:49 That's how we operate.