Animals Cannot Be Compassionate or Liberated || Acharya Prashant, IIT Kharagpur session (2020)

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00:00 No animal can be compassionate really, because an animal is completely just

00:12 Prakriti. Animal really does not have the option to be a liberated consciousness.

00:27 The animal's consciousness is completely dominated by its physical conditioning.

00:35 Are you getting it? Therefore the animal gets neither reward nor punishment, which

00:43 is comfortable in a sense, because the animal lives in a secure zone. A dog is

00:59 born a dog, lives as a dog and dies as a dog. And no dog lives in a state of

01:11 consciousness that is very different from that of another dog. Are you getting it?

01:19 You cannot say one dog is liberated and the other dog is not. You cannot say one

01:24 dog is joyful and compassionate and the other dog is not. Dogs can have varying

01:34 external situations, but internally all dogs are just dogs. This is not the case

01:42 with human beings. Human beings can vary greatly in their internal states. One

01:55 human being can be full of compassion and the other one can be spiteful.

02:03 Angry, vicious and violent.

02:11 Getting it?

02:15 Therefore the one who is compassionate is rewarded. He made the right choice. The

02:24 one who is vicious is punished by his viciousness itself. He made the wrong

02:31 choice. So there is this great difference between animals and human beings, which

02:39 also means that human beings must never justify their actions by taking examples

02:48 of animals. For example, if you eat animal flesh, you cannot justify it by saying

02:58 that a lion or a wolf too kills other animals to eat. A lion or a wolf has no

03:10 option to not to kill. You have that option.

03:19 Man is not necessarily a herbivore. Man is more of an omnivore. Therefore that

03:28 option is there. You could have decided to not to kill, but you chose in favor of

03:34 killing. Therefore you will be punished. A lion is never punished because the lion

03:39 had no option. A lion has done nothing wrong. In fact, even if a lion kills a

03:54 human being, really it has not committed a crime. That's how lions are. They are

04:02 supposed to kill to eat. But if a man needlessly kills an animal, then the man

04:15 will be punished. If not by law, then by existence. You getting it? So that is a

04:27 human being in the most clear terms. A human being is a decision maker. A human

04:38 being is someone who has a choice. How do you define a human being? He is someone

04:46 who has a choice. And how you exercise these choices decides your life. Choose

04:58 very very carefully.

05:02 [Music]

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