A healthy body, so that you can consume more and destroy more? || Acharya Prashant (2017)

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00:00Arjun has been taught that respecting elders is a virtue, Arjun has been taught that non-violence

00:12is a virtue. Arjun has also been taught that defending your territory is a virtue. Now,

00:21these two things clash with each other. If he must defend his territory, then he must fight

00:27his elders. But he has been taught that not fighting with elders is a virtue and parallelly,

00:32defending territory is a virtue. Arjun has been taught that one must take care of the interest

00:43of one's kins and clan. But Arjun has also been taught that one must take good care of one's wife.

00:55Now, these two are ranged against each other. The kins have insulted the wife. Arjun must defend

01:09and avenge the wife. This is how the mind gets divided. Society influences it, media influences

01:25it, religion influences it. The entire gamut of experiences of the past influences the mind.

01:33The biology inherent in one's cells and tissues influences the mind. The country you come from,

01:42the system that you have experienced in terms of politics, economics, even ecology. That is

01:52what constitutes the mind. The mind is a bundle of influences. And these influences do not agree

01:59with each other. They fight with each other. Hence, the contradiction. Hence, the strife

02:05that makes our life a battlefield. That is human suffering. That is grief. One part of oneself is

02:19fighting with another part. And none of the parts is prepared to be related directly to the center.

02:30All parts are off-center and in disagreement with each other. Yog is to have a composite mind. Yog

02:46is to return to one's innocence, one's primal purity in which the mind is not conditioned

02:59or stained at all. That is Yog. Still, you see, we have not talked about anything that is as gross

03:16as physical objects or physical body. Neither have we talked of anything that is hypothetically

03:25extremely subtle, as subtle as divinity or godhood or enlightenment. Yog does not pertain

03:38to either of these. I repeat, Yoga is not about having a fit body. If it's about having a fit

03:46body, Arjun was the fittest of them all already. Why does he need lectures on Yoga then?

03:52The fittest warrior is being given sermons on Yoga. Surely, Yoga is not about physical fitness.

04:01If physical fitness could mean Yoga, then Arjun was already established in Yoga. So,

04:11Yoga is not at all a physical thing. And Yoga is also not about, I am repeating this point

04:18because it is important, and Yoga is also not about enlightenment or otherworldliness or freedom

04:30from this world or transcendental experiences or divine sparkles. None of that. Yoga means,

04:44how do I live? Yoga means, what do I do with my relatives? Yoga means, how do I treat my wife?

04:50Yoga means, if I need to invest everything in a conflict, would I risk my son's life? These

05:04are the questions that an Arjun faces. If these questions are relevant to you,

05:15then the answers to these questions is called Yoga. Yoga means, coming together. What can

05:28come together? Only that can come together, that is first of all, not together. What is

05:33not together? The mind is that which is not together. The mind runs hither-thither randomly,

05:41sometimes this way, sometimes that way. There is no inherent order. That lack of order is called

05:51Vyog. That fragmentation is called Vyog. Vyog is unfortunately the usual state in which mankind

06:02exists. Vyog means that the parts of mind are not in touch with each other and also not relating

06:15to any common center. Since there is no common center, hence there are a thousand centers. Every

06:24part has its own center. The part that relates to career has greed and ambition and fear as the

06:33center. The part that relates to religion has tradition and deference as the center. The part

06:43that relates to family has attachment and security as the center. And all these centers are not at

06:52all obviously coinciding. So, there is conflict. The professional in the office is not the same

07:05as the husband or the wife in the home. The father in front of the kid is not the same as the man who

07:18is talking to the neighbor. As situations change, new influences come and we start operating from

07:27a different center. Sometimes we operate from fear, sometimes we operate from attachment,

07:34sometimes we operate from one identity, sometimes we operate from another identity and the identities

07:44are not something that we control. The identities are dictated by situations. Once you are in your

07:51office, you have become a dedicated professional. Out of the office, you have become somebody else.

07:58That somebody else does not quite like the professional, hence conflict. You cannot

08:07wear the same face. You cannot operate from the same center. That is Vyog. To be living in Vyog

08:17is to be living in slavery of a thousand different forces. You are at place one,

08:27you are a slave to place one. You are at place two, you are a slave to place two. Because the

08:36place is dictating your entire personality. The place is dictating the way you would think. The

08:43place is dictating even your core. Your very self changes according to the situation. That is Vyog.

08:51Yog is to have a self that is independent of situation, space and time. Yog is to be firmly

09:01rooted at a point that is untouched by anything that can touch anything. Arjun is constantly told

09:15be Yogarud. Yogarud means firmly seated in Yog. Firmly seated so that you cannot be displaced. So

09:28that no vibration, no force, no temptation, no fear can really disturb you or dislocate you.

09:41Finding practical solutions, finding real solution to the real situations of life is Yog.

10:01Yog is just not about escaping into a fancy land. Yog in fact brings you closer to the soil. The

10:15man of Yog is a real man.

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