Consciousness versus Awareness || Acharya Prashant,on Bhagavad Gita (2020)

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Full Video: What is common between saint and sinner, animal and man? || Acharya Prashant,on Bhagavad Gita (2020)
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Video Information: Shastra Kaumudi Live, 23.02.2020, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Context:
~ What is worldly definition of consciousness?
~ What are the levels of consciousness?
~ Does same consciousness lives in all beings?
~ What is common between saint and sinner, animal and man?
~ What is the difference between Consciousness and Awareness?

विद्याविनयसंपन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि।
शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः।।5.18।।
The learned ones look with equanimity on a Brahmana endowed with learning and humility, a cow, an elephant, and even a dog as well as an eater of dog's meat.

~ Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta, Chapter 5, Verse 18.

Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00 The most learned priest really wants to reach the same place as the one who is spending

00:18 his life eating dog's meat.

00:24 It's just that the learned one is making it easier for himself by being learned and the

00:33 one who is busy killing animals and eating them is not doing himself a favor by doing

00:45 what he does.

00:51 But both of them want the same thing.

00:54 Not only do both of them want the same thing, even animals want the same thing.

00:57 Be it a cow, an elephant or a dog or a single celled amoeba.

01:08 As if life itself exists to reach one common shared and ultimate destination.

01:18 Doesn't matter what the life form is.

01:28 Looking from our position, it does appear, however, that a few life forms and even among

01:38 those life forms, a few categories are more suited to reach that destination.

01:47 But that's only from our point of view and no point of view is absolute, you see.

01:56 From where man looks at himself, from where man looks at a cow and a dog, it actually

02:05 does appear that liberation is more possible for a man than a cow or a dog.

02:14 But this conclusion should be taken with a pinch of salt.

02:20 Why?

02:21 Because this conclusion is from man's frame of reference.

02:29 It's the man who is looking at himself as a man, it's a man who is looking at a cow

02:33 as a cow.

02:37 A cow does not look at itself as a man does.

02:41 We do not know what a cow is in a cow universe.

02:47 We do not even know what a pebble is in a pebble's universe.

02:51 A pebble appears inanimate to us.

02:55 In its own universe, we do not know what that pebble is and how men look.

03:04 We do not even know whether a pebble universe exists at all.

03:11 Instead what is certain is, irrespective of the form, shape, expression of consciousness,

03:19 all conscious entities exist to be liberated.

03:27 Therefore, at some fundamental level, you cannot differentiate between them.

03:33 They all exist for the same thing.

03:35 How to distinguish?

03:53 From anybody who has spent time with an animal and he or she will say that he is friends

04:07 with the animal, the two of them actually talk as human beings too.

04:21 The two of them share relationship that might actually be deeper than the one human beings

04:30 have among themselves.

04:36 If that kind of a relationship is possible with an animal, how will you distinguish between

04:42 an animal and a human being?

04:46 With that, you see only when you first of all come close.

04:52 If you do not come close, then from a distance, you will see only the exteriors.

04:58 And when you see the exteriors, all you see is differences.

05:01 The cow is not the dog, the dog is not the man.

05:05 They are all different.

05:07 And if they are different, and if they are different from you, then they are foreigners,

05:15 then they are aliens, then they have nothing in common with you, then their existence is

05:28 totally exclusive of you and then you can slaughter them.

05:33 Therefore, if you are someone who relishes slaughter of any kind, it becomes important

05:39 for you to keep a safe distance.

05:42 If you come too close, you will not be able to kill.

Consciousness versus Awareness || Acharya Prashant,on Bhagavad Gita (2020)

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