Consume with dispassion || Acharya Prashant, on Ishavasya Upanishad (2017)

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00:00You see, bhog is not something that is possible for us.

00:23So bhog without yoga is a contradiction.

00:29Have you ever seen a man shivering, trembling in fear?

00:34Is he able to eat?

00:35Where is bhog then?

00:39Where there is no yoga, there is fear.

00:45And where there is fear, how will you even partake in the simple delights of the world?

00:53Bhog won't happen.

00:56Even to experience the world, that's what I call as bhog, an experience of the world.

01:01Even to really and truly experience the world, you need to have a solid core, a unified core,

01:07that is what is called yoga, a unified core, a heart that is not shattered, a mind that

01:13is not divided and split and fragmented.

01:16Otherwise, how will you experience the world?

01:19You look at the people around, do you really feel that they are able to experience anything?

01:24Have people really experienced the delights that existence has to offer?

01:30Do we even experience happiness deeply?

01:36Do we even experience sadness deeply?

01:40Have you seen how many barriers we raise against sadness?

01:44The moment somebody is all in tears, his relatives pounce upon him, why are you weeping so much?

01:53The sweetheart has died, the man can't even weep, you are allowed to weep till a point

02:01and then sadness is not permissible, where is the question of bhog?

02:09The elements of bhog that are classically talked of, food, sex, pleasures in things,

02:16pleasures in places, do they happen with us?

02:20You are so afraid that you can't leave your job, how will you go and visit the world?

02:31Is bhog happening?

02:32Look at the common, normal, professional, he gets 10 days of leaves an year, alright

02:4415 are consumed by sickness and chicken guniya and such things, so de facto he is left with

02:5410 days.

02:56How much can he consume in these 10 days?

02:59Go to the west, there because of many kinds of securities available, fear is a little

03:09Social security is there and financial security is a little better than what we have here.

03:17So they are able to quit jobs and they are able to wander around.

03:22Now there is some bhog, now there is a little bhog, but the man who is clinging to his job

03:31as he is clinging to dear life because he is shivering, what will happen to my future

03:36if I lose my job?

03:38How will he, without yoga no bhog ever happens?

03:44It is a great misperception and an overestimation and an unnecessary self-gratification to tell

03:57ourselves that even without being yogast, we are experiencing, we are consuming the

04:06world.

04:07No, we are not.

04:08What do we know of the world?

04:09We are born on this earth, what do we know of this earth?

04:15The word bhog comes very commonly in the environment of sexual gratification.

04:25How does that happen?

04:30Look at the lives of people around you, are they really find any gratification in sex?

04:36The entire day you are spending in stress, all kinds of rubbish, tension, pushing others,

04:46getting pulled, getting split.

04:51What kind of sexual activity is then possible?

04:55Sex is for the free-minded.

04:58What bhog is possible?

05:03Very soon before you reach the age of 35, one's fears, one's desires, one's greed make

05:16one bide and one develops a tummy this big and there are three kids, where is the question

05:30of sambhog now?

05:35Is that not the reality of every household?

05:37Bhog, sambhog, all gone.

05:41Without yog, no bhog, simple.

05:47A Krishna really enjoys the world, we don't, Krishna is yogiraj, the Shiva really enjoys

05:57the world, Shakti is the world, because Shiva is Dadiyogi, we don't enjoy the world, we

06:09lead very barren lives, roti, sabzi, dal, chawal, full stop, where is bhog?

06:27Forget about international cuisine, do we even try out the various kinds of foods available

06:35around us in this country?

06:40We are prejudiced and where there is prejudice, where is the question of bhog?

06:52If you are happy beyond a point, you are cautioned, even admonished, you are just being too happy.

07:04Very soon, you will meet your fall, as they say nazar lag jayegi, you can't even be fully

07:13happy, you can't be too sad, you can't be too happy, where is the question of bhog?

07:25You can't sit still, you sit still, somebody would come and say, why are you turning into

07:33a stone?

07:35You dance too much, people will come and restrict you, not the way of decency, Sushila ji just

07:48called up, you too must be Sushila, you know what is Sushila?

08:11Where is bhog?

08:40Every breath is a reminder of joy, but only when you are available to that experience,

08:52not when your mind is absorbed in trivia and ten types of occupations.

09:05You talk of roti, every morsel is a reminder of the delight that life is, but only when

09:18you are available to really experience that morsel, we don't eat, we stuff ourselves.

09:28Where is bhog?

09:58The funny part is, there is no bhog, yet we so feel guilty about excessive bhog, externally

10:21we keep consuming and we have consumed so much that the earth is threatened now and

10:28the desire for consumption keeps on increasing, but really gratification is not happening.

10:38Consumption is there, a lot of food can be consumed, yet there is no gratification, true

10:46gratification comes with an inner fullness, with gratitude, without gratitude there is

10:52no real gratification and that is why consumption keeps increasing.

10:58In search of gratification consumption keeps increasing, you keep consuming more and more

11:04in the hope that quantity will lead to quality, you keep increasing the kilos, the inches,

11:17the quantity, the numbers, in the hope that numbers will lead to something that is not

11:25numerable, that is not measurable in numbers, it doesn't matter how much you run along the

11:35dimension of numbers, that will not take you into the dimension of the innumerable, immeasurable.

11:53Why is the man buying one car after the other, have you ever asked him?

11:59So that he can get some gratification, that he doesn't get, one car, why is the man offering

12:08much more than he can eat, he has called the waiter and he is like this, this, this and

12:18even the waiter is wondering, sir how many more are to come, you set a table for two

12:26and you ordered food enough for eight people, but the fellow just, maybe something would

12:32give me that little touch, that little heavenly delight, let me try much more than I can really

12:45have, maybe something will suffice, maybe something will click, nothing clicks, one keeps trying.

12:54If bhog means just gross consumption, then yes bhog is happening, but if bhog means really being

13:10delighted, then there is no bhog, it doesn't matter how many thousands and lakhs and crores

13:20you have spent, have you really ever been delighted, remember that delight is not reversible,

13:29one moment's delight is a permanent upliftment, you cannot say I was delighted once and then

13:43I returned to my base state, that is not possible.

13:50The poet said a thing of beauty is joy forever, it has a certain timelessness forever, has

14:03anything lasted forever for you, any delight, you had a great evening, did it last, you

14:14had a great honeymoon, did it last, great vodka, did it last, you are left with the

14:32hangover and probably the pills, nothing lasts.

14:56You see our peculiar situation, we are people who just cannot consume and yet we are destroying

15:05this planet with excessive consumption.

15:11Like a man whose intestines are now all rotten, perforated, intestines having holes, so he

15:27cannot absorb anything, but he keeps eating a lot in the hope that if he will eat a lot,

15:37maybe something will be absorbed.

15:40How can anything be absorbed when your entire canal from here till there is perforated,

15:48nothing is absorbed, but you keep putting in a lot, that's man's condition, very peculiar.

15:59It requires, you know of that right, it's all in the news, it requires many earths to

16:07provide for our levels of consumption, this little planet won't suffice.

16:18These excesses have a spiritual base to them because the lives of mankind are devoid of

16:32spirituality that is why man is eating away this planet and hence only true and innocent

16:46spirituality is the solution.

16:48You can keep trying fancy treaties, various agreements and such things, they are not going to work.

16:58You won't be able to control the temperature rise.

17:00It is already being said that a 2 degree rise is too much to ask.

17:14Probably we are looking at a 3.2 degree centigrade rise in temperature by the end of this century

17:21and what's responsible for that, man's unmitigated greed.

17:24You keep on, everybody wants to have more cars and bigger malls.

17:33When you are inside a mall, a shopping mall that is, have you ever wondered about its

17:38carbon footprint?

17:39Have you ever thought what's the ecological cost of the entire air conditioning?

17:48But you are consuming or so you think.

17:55You think that you are consuming because you spend a lot there, because you come back with

18:00fancy packets in hand and a tummy full of the flesh of lots of innocent animals.

18:10So you think that you have consumed.

18:17We don't consume, we think that we have consumed.

18:23Consumption hasn't happened.

18:32The Isha Vastu Upanishad says something very beautiful in this regard.

18:42It says, consume with dispassion.

18:51It instructs you to consume.

18:58That's the opening verse.

19:08Consume with dispassion.

19:15You don't need it really.

19:18You are fulfilled.

19:20You don't have expectations of spiritual fulfillment.

19:24You don't have a void within and now you have a relationship with the food.

19:32You are okay.

19:33You are not afraid.

19:36You are not desirous really.

19:37Now you have a relationship with food.

19:39That's quite strange.

19:43When you consume because of desire, it's desire that consumes you.

19:50You haven't consumed anything.

19:52And when you consume without desire, then you really consume.

19:57You will get up and ask, but why will we consume if we don't have desire?

20:02Because all our consumption is born out of, that's what the Upanishads and the Buddhas have taught.

20:11To consume without desire.

20:14Yes, that is possible.

20:21The desire that they are talking of is the inner faithlessness.

20:27Most of our desires proceed from there.

20:31Proceed to consume without faithlessness.

20:35Don't consume as if consumption will give you joy.

20:41If your life is godless, don't think that consumption will give you God.

20:46But that's how we consume.

20:50When the next car or the next woman arrives in our life, we feel as if God has arrived.

20:56Because our lives are ungodly, so we are looking for God in iron and flesh.

21:02Have a godly life and then if life so plays it out, have a car as well.

21:18Have God, then have car.

21:24It would be God's car.

21:29Have God, then have a man or woman in life.

21:33It would be a godly relationship.

21:36But if you have a car as a substitute for God, as a replacement for God, as a proxy for God,

21:47then the car would disappoint you.

21:50And the woman would irritate you as they do.

21:59You are asking too much from her.

22:02And the woman too is asking too much from the man.

22:08You want from the woman what only God can give you.

22:11And the woman wants from the man what only God can give.

22:17Total contentment is what you want and the man and the woman are going to fail.

22:24And then you are annoyed and then you say, you know, it was a bogus decision.

22:41It was just the heat of the moment and now I am paying for it.

22:52How much do you want to pay?

23:03You are already a pauper.

23:07You are already a pauper.

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