Breaking Free from Negative Patterns || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Kanpur (2023)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How to minimise greed, fear, violence within ourselves? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Kanpur (2023) Link:      • How to minimise greed, fear, violence...    ➖➖➖➖➖➖  ‍♂️ Want to meet Acharya Prashant? Be a part of the Live Sessions: https://acharyaprashant.org/hi/enquir...  ⚡ Want Acharya Prashant’s regular updates? Join WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va6Z...   Want to read Acharya Prashant's Books? Get Free Delivery: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/books?...   Want to accelerate Acharya Prashant’s work? Contribute: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/contri...   Want to work with Acharya Prashant? Apply to the Foundation here: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/hiring...  ➖➖➖➖➖➖  Video Information: 07.06.23, with IIT-Kanpur (Online-talk), Greater Noida  Context: ~ When can you say you are greedy and not ambitious? ~ Do you agree that greed is really a deadly sin? ~ If you are content with what you have, how can you improve? ~ Are you a greedy person by nature? ~ What other bad behaviors do you associate with greed? ~ Is it bad to be greedy for learning?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00 Climate change, overpopulation, biodiversity loss, depletion of resources.

00:15 What is it?

00:18 When you do not understand yourself, you do not know what you want, then you simply indiscriminately,

00:28 indiscriminately consume all that you can.

00:33 Classically, the entire universe is called as Prakriti.

00:38 Everything, including man-made objects, everything is called Prakriti.

00:46 Man too is a part of Prakriti.

00:49 When you do not understand yourself, that is, when you do not understand Prakriti, you

00:55 simply destroy Prakriti.

00:59 There can be no love without understanding, right?

01:03 That which you do not understand, you will never be able to love.

01:06 However, you can be desirous, even without understanding.

01:11 Today if you see glaciers melting and the coral reefs being destroyed and the AQI levels

01:22 are beyond tolerance, the reason is very simple.

01:33 We have no self-knowledge, so we do not know this universe we are living in.

01:37 I am not talking of science, I am talking of the relationship that we have with the

01:41 universe.

01:43 We do not know what is the right relationship to have with the world around us.

01:50 If all we do is consumption and destruction, we have simply destroyed everything.

01:57 There can be therefore no scientific or technological solution to this problem.

02:03 The solution is self-awareness.

02:08 Otherwise technology will be used simply to consume and you cannot halt the march of technology.

02:18 Man is gifted with intellect and technology will keep improving.

02:22 It must.

02:24 Technology is a neutral thing, there is no harm in technology per se.

02:27 Technology must improve in all ways possible.

02:31 The problem is in the application of technology.

02:36 Because you do not know yourself, so you will use all kinds of technologies just to fulfill

02:43 your blind instincts and those instincts can never be fulfilled.

02:48 So the solution to all these problems has to be spiritual.

02:52 When I say spiritual I just mean self-knowledge, no mumbo-jumbo.

02:59 Unless our education very wholeheartedly embraces knowledge of the self and life, there is no

03:12 hope for man, for our various species and for this planet.

03:20 And let's keep aside all that nonsense of man migrating to other planets and colonizing

03:25 them and starting new life altogether, all that is childish fantasy.

03:32 Without that, that is not possible.

03:35 But that's not the solution.

03:48 You are in IIT, see how your education has been throughout your journey from nursery

03:56 till class 12th, as they say K12 and now in your B.Tech or M.Tech program and after that

04:05 you might decide to go for a PhD.

04:09 See all the while you have just been prepared to consume.

04:17 The entire focus of education has been to make you someone who will earn well.

04:31 People celebrate gaining entrance into IIT not because they love knowledge but because

04:38 they know that fat packages are now guaranteed.

04:49 Entire emphasis has been on consumption.

04:51 If you can get into IIT, you will get to consume a lot.

04:57 If you can get into one of the IITs, you will be able to bite into the big apple, the United

05:05 States.

05:09 Especially if you can get into computer science, you will have a fat dollar salary.

05:20 And that's what is celebrated.

05:21 That's what the entire preparation cycle is about, class 8th till class 12th, the entire

05:28 coaching industry, everything.

05:33 Who wants to just know and learn?

05:36 And I am not even talking of self-knowledge here.

05:39 I am talking of knowledge of the world.

05:42 Even that is not something that is respected.

05:46 All that is respected is consumption.

05:56 Think of Indians and it's an interesting thing.

05:58 How many people know of the IISc and how many people know of the IITs and when it comes

06:07 to their glamour quotient, the IITs far exceed IISc in the popular imagination, in the common

06:15 mind.

06:17 Why?

06:19 Because that science is technology and science is pure knowledge and technology is to be

06:27 used to ingratiate your desires.

06:37 So education has to change.

06:45 We have been very badly educated.

06:50 In the inner sense, we are all illiterates.

06:52 It doesn't matter whether you are at an IIT or MIT or Harvard, doesn't matter.

07:01 We are fundamentally uneducated people.

07:08 How can you call a man educated if he knows nothing about who he is in the first place?

07:14 Think of it, it's amusing.

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