Worship, not exploit || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: The animal inside us - what to do with it? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Delhi (2022)
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00:00Durga or Ambika or Kali, they represent Prakriti.
00:04What to do with them? Worship them. Worship them as mother.
00:06Be close to them without the intention to possess them or exploit them.
00:12So India then started calling the jungle as Ma.
00:15Come close, but do not come close as the ordinary consumer does.
00:20You know, when we ordinarily come close to something,
00:22we want to lay our dirty hands on that thing, no?
00:25And we want to pick that thing up and consume it and ingratiate us and
00:30feel the pleasure. India said no, that's not the way.
00:32Go close. Go close with the spirit to really know.
00:36Go close without the intention to exploit and that is called love.
00:40Love involves intimacy without the intention to exploit.