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Full video: When they disrespect you || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Hyderabad (2022)
Transcript
00:00I feel sometimes even though I am polite, some people are disrespectful. So how do I handle this?
00:05The behavior of such persons is not worthy of being given too much importance.
00:11The emphasis must be on whether I am respecting the respectable thing within me.
00:19He may respect me, disrespect me, all that is secondary.
00:23You might be a wonderful person and you are walking and a monkey comes
00:27and takes away the stuff in your hand. Will you feel hurt?
00:31The monkey has done what monkeys do, right? So fine. The monkey is helpless.
00:36All human beings are actually two units within.
00:39There is something very respectable within us and there is something entirely despicable within us.
00:45Am I respecting the respectable? If I respect the respectable thing within me,
00:50then what is the need to really bother whether the world is respecting me?