Why is there so much violence in Prakriti? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Dear Master, if everything is consciousness, why does Prakriti exist?

00:13Why for the survival of one species, one must take another life?

00:20Why this effort must be done to sustain the body when we are not the body?

00:26Shireen, when you are not the body, then obviously you need not make any special effort to sustain

00:34the body.

00:36But then you also are not concerned about making the body fall.

00:46Then you just let the body continue on its own.

00:52There are two ways of associating with the body.

00:55One way is I am the body.

01:00The second way is I am not the body.

01:05When you say I am the body, what is at the center of your statement?

01:11The body.

01:13I am is the subject and the body is the predicate.

01:19When you say I am not the body, still what is it that you are talking about?

01:22What is it that you are interested in?

01:25The body.

01:30Real affiliation to the truth, real expression of the true self contains no mention of the body.

01:52Not only will it not say I am the body, it will also not bother to say I am not the body.

02:01Do you say I am not the pole?

02:05Do you say that Shireen?

02:06Do you say I am not the grass?

02:11Do you say I am not the floor?

02:13Why don't you say I am not the floor or why don't you say I am not the pole?

02:22Why do you not feel the need to forcefully and emphatically declare I am not the pillar?

02:29Why don't you declare that?

02:31Because it would be absurd.

02:33You are obviously not the pillar and it never occurs to you that you are the pillar.

02:39Because it never occurs to you even by chance that you are the pillar, so there is no need

02:42to say I am not the pillar.

02:45Similarly, what is the need to so loudly declare I am not the body?

02:52If you are not the body, let the body be just as you let the pillar be.

03:00Let the body be.

03:01The body knows what to do.

03:02The body is a self-sufficient machine.

03:08Hands are there, the digestive mechanism is there, the legs are there.

03:12The brain is there.

03:17The body knows what to do.

03:18Let the body go ahead and do whatever it wants to do.

03:20You do what you must do and in doing what you must do, if you need to use the body,

03:27use it.

03:28Just as we sometimes use the pillar.

03:31Don't we use the pillar?

03:32We use the pillar but we are not the pillar.

03:36You get the difference?

03:37We use the pillar without identifying with the pillar.

03:41Similarly, for your own purpose, use the body without identifying with it.

03:50There is no need to interfere with the body in the positive sense or in the negative sense,

03:56neither in the sense of affirmation nor in the sense of negation.

04:01That's the best and most healthy relationship that you can have with the body.

04:07Let the body be.

04:15Then if everything is consciousness, why does Prakriti exist?

04:18Prakriti and consciousness are one.

04:25You conceptualize consciousness as something that looks at Prakriti, right?

04:31So Prakriti is all around, the seen and consciousness is the seer.

04:38That's how you probably conceptualize it.

04:40Is that the concept?

04:41So you are asking everything is consciousness, why does Prakriti exist?

04:46Because Prakriti and consciousness are one.

04:50This that we call as consciousness is embedded in the brain, is it not?

04:55No brain, no consciousness, referring to the consciousness as it is commonly conceptualized.

05:04No brain, no consciousness.

05:07And what is the brain?

05:08Prakriti.

05:10So our Prakriti and consciousness are one.

05:15In fact, if somehow the brain can undergo a mutation, you will find that the entire

05:19universe has changed.

05:24If the brain undergoes a mutation, this entire Prakriti will change.

05:28You will find it very surprising, probably unacceptable.

05:31But if the brain undergoes a mutation, even the sun can change.

05:36What do you think?

05:37The sun is some objective entity independent of the brain?

05:39Not at all.

05:45All is in consciousness and consciousness is all.

05:50The sun is not independent of consciousness.

05:54If through some miracle all human beings can have a brain of a different dimension,

05:58it is quite possible that the sun may not rise tomorrow or you might see five suns in

06:03the sky.

06:11The sun is totally dependent on this being for its existence just as this being is dependent

06:19on the sun's energy for existence.

06:22It is not one-way traffic.

06:24We think that the sun gives energy so man survives.

06:28Sorry dear sun, don't act so pretentious.

06:32Yes, I survive on your energy.

06:35But if my consciousness transforms, then you will totally disappear.

06:41Totally means totally.

06:42Get this idea out of your head that the sun or anything in the universe, anything in Prakriti,

06:49anything material has any independent or objective existence.

06:52Not at all.

06:54If there is nobody to watch the sun, nothing like the sun exists at all.

07:00But you don't feel that way.

07:01You say, no, but that is not possible.

07:03Even if nobody is there, the sun will still be there.

07:05Not at all.

07:09Gone.

07:12Without consciousness, there is no universe at all.

07:35Why for the survival of one species, one must take another life?

07:39That's how Prakriti operates.

07:44Prakriti is a system in which there is no living being that can survive without another

07:59living being.

08:00When I say living, I mean consciousness in the loose sense of the word.

08:06Consciousness or sentience.

08:13That's how the game of Prakriti operates.

08:17It is an immoral game.

08:23The question that you have posed is within the framework of morality.

08:28You are asking why must one kill the other for his own survival.

08:33This is coming from morality or this might be coming from compassion.

08:38In Prakriti, there is neither morality nor immorality.

08:43There is neither compassion nor cruelty.

08:46There is neither violence nor non-violence.

08:48Prakriti is just Prakriti.

08:51You can call it a giant machine.

08:55In that machine, it just happens that the lion must kill the deer.

09:00Is that good?

09:01No.

09:03It is just as it is because Prakriti has no need to be liberated.

09:15Man is special.

09:17In the entire Prakriti, man is special.

09:20Man has a need to be liberated.

09:22So man is within Prakriti and is also a little out of it as if he is wanting to escape away

09:30from Prakriti.

09:32If this is the domain of Prakriti, this hall, then man is on the door, on the threshold.

09:43Half inside, half outside.

09:46So he is Prakriti and he is also willing to be out of Prakriti.

09:52That is why man is suffering so much always.

09:59Lion has a need for compassion.

10:03In Prakriti, there is no compassion.

10:07So the lion is not violent if it kills the deer.

10:13Not at all.

10:14But man is violent if he kills the deer.

10:18Lion is not at all committing any sin if he kills the deer.

10:24Because the lion has no option, plus the lion has no spiritual ambition.

10:30Have you ever met any lion asking for liberation?

10:35Any lion?

10:36No.

10:37The lion has no such need.

10:39But man has that kind of a need and if you want to be liberated, then killing deers is

10:45probably not the best way.

10:53So don't ask why in Prakriti does one thing kill the other.

10:59It's an irrelevant question.

11:01A relevant question would be, must man kill and slaughter in order to survive?

11:07That's a relevant question.

11:09Even the answer to that would say man can do that if man wants to remain within the hall.

11:17Man has the option to remain within the area, the domain, the hall of Prakriti or man has

11:23the option to just let loose and fly away, be independent, correct?

11:28If you want to remain Prakriti, then you can act like the lion and kill the deer and eat

11:33it.

11:34And that's okay.

11:36Depends on you.

11:38But then you will be belonging to the jungle.

11:40All that happens in the jungle.

11:41In the jungle, there is no need for liberation, so anybody can kill anybody.

11:46But if you want to be liberated and you want to move outside this domain, then you must

11:51not kill.

11:52The advice is don't kill because within this domain of Prakriti, within the jungle, you

11:59will not find peace.

12:01You are not designed to find peace within Prakriti.

12:05Man can find peace only after gaining liberation from Prakriti.

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