Bringing Real Change || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Rape and Retribution: Perspectives on Justice || Interview with Acharya Prashant (2019)

Transcript

00:00We usually feel that we have committed a crime only if we have violated the law.

00:08In the eyes of the law, you are a criminal only if, let's say you take bribe.

00:13You need to have an internal locus where you don't need to measure yourself against the

00:18written law.

00:19Where you ask yourself, it's not sufficient to just not to take bribes.

00:23I must also have a certain vision in life.

00:27I must also be aligned to the work that I am doing.

00:31I must be able to really respect, even worship my work.

00:35And if I am not able to worship my work, really it is a crime.

00:38Even if technically it is not.

00:40That kind of thing is needed.

00:41Otherwise, you will be able to have limited solutions.

00:45You will be able to give yourself the satisfaction of having improved the situation or managed

00:52the situation.

00:53But you will never be ever able to fundamentally change the situation.