Full video: Are We Revering the Right Voices? A Look at True Wisdom. || Acharya Prashant (2024)
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00:00If only the exceptional one is to be respected,
00:04then respect has to be an act of exception making.
00:08I have made an exception by respecting you.
00:11Respect is not something that I just throw about like crumbs to dogs.
00:15You have to know the right relationship with everything.
00:19If you are to respect, you have to respect someone
00:23who is wise and who can bring his wisdom to your use.
00:27Instead, if you choose to have a relationship of respect
00:30with someone who is himself unwise,
00:33obviously he can be of no use to you.
00:35Respect is not something universal.
00:36To respect is to admit that there is something there
00:40worthy of absorption, something there I can look up to.
00:43And if you respect just about everything,
00:46then you are absorbing a lot of trash.
00:48The respect has to be exclusive, selective.
00:52It has to be an act of distinction.
00:54It has to be an act of exception.
00:56It cannot be something by default.