Look into the eyes of a rabbit || Acharya Prashant, in conversation with PETA CEO (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 My own welfare lies in me being able to respect consciousness.

00:10 Why do I suffer?

00:11 Why does any human being suffer?

00:13 Because we forget that we are just not the body.

00:17 The body has its own games, its own agendas.

00:21 I have my purposes that are separate from the purposes of the body.

00:26 For example, the body might want to sleep.

00:29 I might not necessarily agree.

00:32 The body might want to eat or jump around or the body in a certain stage of life might

00:39 demand procreation and I do not extend my consent to all that.

00:44 I am not the body so I am not obliged to always concur with the body.

00:50 The moment I see I am consciousness, something very magical happens.

00:55 Wherever consciousness is seen, it becomes an expression of who I am.

01:04 How can I kill myself then?

01:05 I look at the rabbit and in the rabbit's eyes there is nothing different from what is there

01:11 in my eyes.

01:14 The shine might be different, the form might be different but the essential characteristic

01:19 is the same.

01:20 I do not want to die.

01:21 The consciousness here says well there is more to explore, more to achieve.

01:26 Probably there is something called liberation that is still left.

01:30 So there is a certain hunger in my eyes.

01:32 I see a certain hunger in the rabbit's eyes as well.

01:36 The rabbit might not be demanding liberation.

01:38 It might just be asking for a carrot.

01:40 But there is that desire there.

01:43 So in killing the rabbit I am killing a part of myself, something very similar to myself.

01:47 I could even say I am killing myself when I kill anybody.

01:50 If I hurt someone I am hurting myself.

01:55 That's the route and the position that we are taking.

01:59 And to our surprise it's been cutting eyes.

02:03 In a short period of time there have been people, really tough nuts and chronic meat

02:11 eaters for whatever reasons.

02:16 They have just been able to come around and do things.

02:22 But equally the state of treatment towards animals in India has been deteriorating.

02:32 India has traditionally been home to the largest number of vegetarians in the world.

02:38 But now only around 30%, less than 30% of the population is vegetarian.

02:43 So violence towards animals is on the rise and insensitivity is rife, especially among

02:54 the younger people.

02:56 We are trying to fight it out.

02:58 Let's see.

03:00 [Music]

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