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Video Information: 16.02.23, International Psychology Summit Conference
Context:
~ What is the purpose of our life?
~ Can we live a purposeless life?
~ Is is necessary to live a purposeful life?
~ What is purposelessness?
~ How to have the right purpose?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 16.02.23, International Psychology Summit Conference
Context:
~ What is the purpose of our life?
~ Can we live a purposeless life?
~ Is is necessary to live a purposeful life?
~ What is purposelessness?
~ How to have the right purpose?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00There is an entire education and upbringing and conditioning that is founded on the philosophy
00:12that the purpose of life is to be happy.
00:20And happiness is obtained by external acquisitions.
00:27If you are not happy, go somewhere, do something, buy something, eat something, wear something,
00:33find somebody to talk to.
00:38So that's the philosophy that raises us from the kid to the adult.
00:50Double whammy, born defective and then raised in a very insensible way.
01:05The result is that most of us remain totally oblivious of the environment within, though
01:13that's where we live.
01:17Even as we are sitting here, please see, there is this that you are sitting within.
01:32But where you are actually living, where each of us lives all his, her life is in the mind,
01:41that's where we live.
01:45All experiences are here.
01:49This is what matters.
01:56If one is given a choice to be in a fabulous external environment, but with sickness within,
02:07one would not sensibly want to choose that.
02:13On the contrary, if the environment, external environment is not great, and yet you are
02:24joyful within, you'd hardly have any problems with such a situation.
02:34So we have to live within.
02:40That's where our life is.
02:43That's where our location, our situation is.
02:51And yet we spend all our time and energy looking at the external world.
03:02The problem, as I tried to put it, is at the level of biology and philosophy.
03:12Biology produces the kid in a particular way and our philosophy of parenting, philosophy
03:21of education, philosophy of life itself is so flawed that we totally forget that the
03:30child has to live within.
03:34In the psychic sense, the child is not born on this planet.
03:40The child takes birth within her own mind.
03:45Because that's where we all exist, right?
03:48We exist within our minds.
03:52Once you have fallen asleep, when you are in deep sleep, do you exist?
04:01Somebody else would confirm that you do exist, you are lying on your bed.
04:06But for yourself, your existence has ceased.
04:11Because for us, and that's all that matters, right?
04:16Because we have to live our lives, we don't have to live our lives as per the experience
04:21of somebody else.
04:24So we are lying on the bed, deeply asleep.
04:28Somebody else might be asserting that the fellow exists.
04:37But for yourself, do you exist at that moment?
04:41You don't exist.
04:42So where is your existence?
04:45Your existence is within your own mind.
04:47The child is born within her mind.
04:51The mind is where our location is.
04:55The mind is where our entire life and all our experiences are.
05:03And our education does not take us there.
05:07Our education does not address the most important thing that must be addressed.
05:17So, more than a decade back, when I used to more frequently address college audiences,
05:25I used to say, all your education put together on one side is less valuable than one single
05:39course on education of the self, life education.
05:49But we are taught of everything, sciences, humanities, languages, quality.
05:59All of that we are well versed in.
06:05But in no book generally do we find the word self.
06:18The question of identity remains neglected.
06:21Yes, I understand.
06:23In neuroscience, we take it up.
06:25In psychology, we take it up.
06:28First of all, a very small fraction of students opts for these things.
06:36Secondly, even if they do opt for these disciplines, that happens only after class 12th.
06:44And thirdly, the question of liberation from suffering, that is not taken up even in these
06:51disciplines.
06:52Because it's not sufficient to talk of the psyche.
07:02One also has to talk of liberation because that's what we want.
07:08The fundamental human condition is of suffering.
07:14That deserves attention.
07:17How to tackle that problem?
07:21What is suffering?
07:22Where does it come from?
07:23And how to be liberated from it?
07:28Is my existence not congruous with, synonymous with suffering?
07:36Can I continue to be and yet not suffer?
07:42We don't take up these questions.
07:46The result is the kind of catastrophe you just talked of.
07:53And the irony is, it's still not very visible at the material level.
08:05Had it been very visible, then we would have been shaken up.
08:12And something would have been done.
08:16Our indifference, our complacency itself testifies that the full effects of the inner catastrophe
08:28are still not externally manifest.
08:33So we can afford to remain oblivious.
08:39But that won't continue for long.
08:43And I shudder to think of a situation in which it in fact does continue for long.
08:51That would mean a world in which everything is more or less alright on the surface.
09:01But within, everybody is insane.
09:10Literally everything is orderly and within everything is chaotic.
09:20And when insanity becomes universal, then we'll call it the norm.
09:30And once you call it the norm, then nothing comes as a shock.
09:36You don't even want to discuss chaos or insanity or disorder because that's the norm.
09:44Something is taken up for discussion, consideration only if it appears unusual, right?
09:56If everybody goes mad, who would talk of madness?
10:02In a madhouse, nobody is mad.
10:07Everybody is okay.
10:15And we are, I fear, very speedily hurtling towards that kind of situation.
10:31And in that situation, you know who's declared mad?
10:36Those who dare to talk of madness, they are the ones labelled mad and lynched.
10:52It's a very unfortunate capacity that we as human beings have.
10:57The capacity to adapt and survive.
11:06We can adapt.
11:08We can acclimatize.
11:11And we can survive even with horrible internal madness.
11:19We probably already are doing that.
11:28And being insane within will behave and display as if everything is alright.
11:38Now where is the question of corrective action?
11:48To treat a disease, first of all, one has to acknowledge a disease as disease.
11:55How can there be treatment sans diagnosis?
12:05But if disease, I repeat, becomes commonplace, then it is no more called a disease.
12:16It's called being human.
12:20It's a part of our human nature, it's normal.
12:23It's natural, as we say these days.
12:33So you tell someone, please, you are being violent.
12:37See what you are doing to the animal.
12:38They say, no, this is not violence.
12:42I am just being natural.
12:46See, there is a lot of exploitation and lust and greed and possessiveness and obviously
12:58violence in your relationships.
13:05That comes the reply.
13:06But isn't all that natural?
13:09So that's we are very quickly coming to.
13:13All our diseases will be called our nature.
13:23Think of the very dimension of the calamity.
13:31Your very nature is being displaced.
13:34Vedanta tells you, truth is your nature, joy is your nature, right?
13:44Satchidanand sabhav.
13:47So realization is your nature, understanding is your nature.
13:51Your nature is a state of joyful understanding.
13:58And our very nature is being displaced.
14:00We are being told that being animalistic is our nature.
14:10And if you'll call that out, we'll feel offended.
14:19You're shaming us.
14:20You're judging us.
14:21No, but it's a diagnosis, sir.
14:25You're sick.
14:26Here, here is your report.
14:28No, no, no.
14:29How dare you judge me?
14:33Probably the day is not far when that's how we'll respond to our physicians as well, our
14:41doctors.
14:42The doctor tells you, you're all hollow within the liver, kidney, lungs are all gone.
14:48And you'll say, but you're judging me.
14:50How dare you call me sick?
14:56Can lodge an FIR.
14:59You just called me sick.
15:09Doctors are lucky.
15:10They have material proof.
15:13So they can get away with whatever they say.
15:27As a doctor of the insides, I don't find myself that lucky.
15:43I don't find myself that lucky.