Never be afraid, young girl (Just fight the nodes of evil) || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)

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00:00When I read what is happening in the environment about the damages, the irreversible damages

00:09and how it is in the end my generation and the people who are going to come that have

00:12to suffer because of this, there is this kind of anxiety that you know occurs from inside

00:18that you know now I have to do something about it, after all I am the one who is going to

00:22suffer I need to do something about it, but then you know very anxious place I go to this

00:27anxious place but then in the end there is this like you know tiny pinch of feeling that

00:32also comes inside like how does it matter in the end what I do because this is a collective

00:37effort so I mean so my question is that how do I deal with this like what is the cause

00:43of this two sided feeling, this anxious and the laid back behaviour and like how do I

00:48deal with it?

00:50See there are two ways you can respond to that anxious place.

00:56One is you say what can I as a solitary individual do when this is a collective problem?

01:07So you ask the anxiety.

01:10How do you know that individual action won't help?

01:12How are you so sure?

01:15How are you so sure that individual action cannot make a difference?

01:22Because if the problem was caused by multiple actions then how?

01:29No, the problem was not caused by multiple actions.

01:32The problem was caused by root ignorance and that is the one shared thing among a lot of

01:40ignorant people.

01:43So you can count the number of ignorant people and they appear numerous but the thing within

01:50them is just one.

01:53That's called fundamental ignorance, avidya, maya.

01:56That's what drives them.

01:58So it's not a case of too many versus too few.

02:04It's a case of ignorance versus light or clarity.

02:10You don't need to count the numbers.

02:12You just need to know that you are on the right side.

02:15The light side is the right side when the opposing side is of darkness.

02:21You are getting it?

02:24You don't need to count the numbers.

02:26First thing is, because heard of Hitler?

02:29How many people were responsible for starting the Second World War?

02:33And how many lives did it take?

02:36So if all kinds of wretched and horrible things can be done by a few people, how can you be

02:41so sure that a few good people cannot do great things?

02:48Is it not so that ignorance itself is causing this kind of pessimism and demotivation, cynicism

02:56rather?

02:59It's telling you, you do not even need to start because you will not reach anywhere.

03:04Ask that cynical one, how do you know I won't reach anywhere?

03:09How do you know?

03:10How are you so sure?

03:12Remember there is something called nodes of evil.

03:19You look at the concept of avatars.

03:24There was this entire army of Ravan, and it is said that the entire army belongs to the

03:35Asuras.

03:37Those were the ones who constituted Ravan's army.

03:41Did Ram have to massacre every single one of them?

03:46Is that what he did?

03:49And the kingdom of Lanka was an all-powerful one.

03:53It was a kingdom of evil.

03:55It is said that Ravan had captured and enslaved even the Gods, the Devatas.

04:02They are all in his prison.

04:05So more powerful than today's America, that's how powerful Ravan's kingdom was.

04:12All the gold was there.

04:13All the weapons were there.

04:15And that's what decides the power, the economy and the military.

04:19And Ravan had both.

04:22It was an entire network of evil.

04:24And Ravan had people everywhere, even in the mainland, the subcontinent.

04:29Even there the Ravan people were there.

04:36How many of them needed to be eliminated to cure the earth of all evil?

04:48Only one.

04:50That's what is called a node of evil.

04:55Not everybody is evil.

04:57Most people are induced to be evil.

05:00Just as in the presence of, let's say, a strong electromagnet, what will happen to

05:06even ordinary pieces of iron?

05:09They get magnetized.

05:10Right?

05:11That's what happens in the presence of nodes of evil.

05:14Even ordinary people become evil.

05:19If there can be nodes of evil that can turn ordinary men into demons, why can't there

05:25be nodes of goodness that can turn demons back into human beings?

05:34How many people did Krishna have to eliminate?

05:39How many?

05:43Think of it.

05:44You know of the story of Hiranyakashyap.

05:50He surely had an entire army of evildoers.

05:56We don't even hear of them.

06:02Vishnu came down just to eliminate that one person and that one person was gone.

06:08And things were fine with the earth again.

06:11Same thing is everywhere and at all times.

06:15Even at this moment, on this earth, there are just a few nodes of evil.

06:21When I say just a few, I do not mean just 2 or 3.

06:24Because the population today is 800 crore.

06:28So back then, compared to the population, you had 4 or 5 nodes.

06:32Today you will have 400 or 500 nodes.

06:38If 400 and 500 bad people can turn the earth into hell, why can't just 400 good people

06:46restore the earth, its peace, its glory, its beauty?

06:50I am asking you, please.

06:52The others are not evil.

06:55They are just in the field of a powerful evil electromagnet.

07:05Why can't you have a powerful field of your own?

07:09Why can't you demagnetize the ones who have been magnetized?

07:13Why can't you de-hypnotize the ones who have been hypnotized?

07:19People have been sedated.

07:22Why can't you wake them up?

07:28Why do you believe that you are alone?

07:29No.

07:30There are millions waiting for you.

07:35Because it is our fundamental nature to be awake and we have been anesthetized.

07:46We want to wake up.

07:49But the environment is full of chloroform.

07:56We are all waiting for someone to come and touch us and whisper to us and just shake

08:03us up a little with love.

08:09Why can't you be that person?

08:12I am again asking you, if a handful of people can turn this earth into a veritable hell,

08:21why can't a handful of people wake this earth up into life and joy and love and beauty?

08:30Why is that not possible?

08:32I am asking, please, why this cynicism?

08:38That too, as a young person, please.

08:49And what we have been told by learned people is that goodness can win even with relatively

08:55smaller numbers and fewer resources.

09:01Whose army was bigger, Ram's or Ravan's?

09:06Which army was the better funded one and the better equipped one?

09:11Who had all the gold?

09:15Who had nothing but monkeys and other kinds of animals?

09:21Who won?

09:22Why can't you win then?

09:25They have the gold, they have the weapons, they have the resources.

09:30In fact, they also have the knowledge because Ravan was very, very knowledgeable.

09:36He had knowledge, he had money, he had weapons, he had resources, he had experience, he had

09:41everything.

09:43But that does not mean that he won.

09:48Why do you need to assume that the decision has already been made?

10:01Next thing, I said there are two parts to my response.

10:07How does it matter if you do not win?

10:13How does it matter if you do not win?

10:15So we are talking of the avatars.

10:17Krishna never assures Arjuna that Arjuna is going to win.

10:23All that he tells him is, come on, pick up your weapon and fight.

10:29And what happens next does not matter.

10:33First thing is, victory is possible.

10:36That was the first part of my response.

10:37Second part is, even if you cannot win, how does it matter?

10:41At least you will have a life well spent.

10:44At least you will get a death well deserved.

10:49Is that a small thing?

10:50So how does it matter if you cannot win?

10:55At least give them a bloody nose, no?

11:00The huge monster.

11:01It's not a small thing to give them a bloody nose.

11:05Come on.

11:07You can kill me, but you will remember me as someone who really knocked the daylights

11:13out of you, even if for a while.

11:21Does that not energize you?

11:23Yes, that's what.

11:30First of all, never be so disappointed to say victory is not possible.

11:35Victory is possible.

11:38Same thing, even if you cannot win, the battle is worth it.

11:46Some battles need to be fought just because they deserve to be fought, not for the sake

11:53of victory, but for the sake of the fight itself.

12:00And victory is indeed possible.

12:03Remember, it's not that all the people are evil.

12:08Will you remember this?

12:10They are just victims of conditioning.

12:14That's what I'm calling as the powerful electromagnet.

12:19We have been induced to be evil.

12:21We are not fundamentally evil.

12:23We are under a spell.

12:29That evil magician has cast a, come on, a spell.

12:38We are all hypnotized since birth.

12:41That's what is called maya.

12:43The most fundamental hypnosis, maya.

12:47We are hypnotized.

12:48Just as somebody can hypnotize us, somebody can also break the hypnosis.

12:54It is possible.

12:56Never never lose faith.

12:59It's possible.

13:01And even if you perished in the attempt, it's a life well lived.

13:07It's a death well deserved.

13:11There is glory not only in living.

13:15There is glory also in perishing.

13:20What's the problem if one perishes for the right reason?

13:22Or is there a problem?

13:25How long did Bhagat Singh live?

13:29Do you look at him as a loser?

13:31Oh loser, light died just when he was 22 or 23.

13:34Do you say that?

13:37Who in his right mind would call Bhagat Singh a loser just because he lived only 22 years?

13:43What's the problem in perishing at 22?

13:53Fight the right battle, that's it.

13:57And remember, they don't have some kind of a copyright over victory.

14:04Arjun was never guaranteed a victory, but it turned out that Arjun won.

14:10And Krishna never tells Arjun, not a single verse in the entire Bhagavad Gita, Arjun,

14:14I am with you, you will definitely win.

14:16And Krishna could have very easily made that promise, no?

14:20Don't you find it surprising?

14:22Krishna never makes that promise.

14:23All he says is, you have to fight.

14:26You have to fight and I will not assist you.

14:27I will never pick up weapons.

14:30The fight is yours, you will fight it.

14:32And you must fight, fight.

14:35And he does win.

14:36It's possible.

14:38He might not have won, still, the Gita stands its place.

14:43Let's say Arjun was killed, would that undervalue the Gita?

14:48Doesn't matter.

14:49Doesn't matter.

14:50Duryodhana won.

14:51Arjun got killed.

14:52Arjun fought valiantly and was martyred, fine, very fine.

15:03So try and don't think too much of the result.

15:08The attempt is sufficient.

15:10Make it a heartful, honest attempt in love.

15:16Love the fight.

15:18That's real love.

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