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Video Information: 17.03.23, Delhi University (Online), Greater Noida
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How do I start a 5 am routine?
What are the 10 good habits at morning?
What is the healthiest morning routine?
How do I spend my morning?
How do I start a daily routine?
How do I start my day?
“Morning” Routine Tips for Students
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 17.03.23, Delhi University (Online), Greater Noida
Context:
How do I start a 5 am routine?
What are the 10 good habits at morning?
What is the healthiest morning routine?
How do I spend my morning?
How do I start a daily routine?
How do I start my day?
“Morning” Routine Tips for Students
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Good evening sir. My name is Malvika. My question is that we have seen many celebrities talk
00:13about their morning routines as the key solution to their achievements. So according to you
00:21what is the perfect daily routine for everyone? I have never had a set routine so I am not
00:37the right person to ask this one too. But see I wake up and I stretch my hand to my workstation
00:52which is my phone and that's the routine that sets it. The ball is rolling now and I don't
01:03realize when the day ends, I have very little idea. So routine, you know when you are on the
01:15battlefield they say that all your plans are only till when the first bullet is fired, before the
01:29battle begins. Obviously you draw very meticulous plans on both sides. The generals on the two
01:38sides are sitting and saying this is my strategy, we'll do this, we'll do this, attack from here.
01:44But the moment the first shell is fired, all the plans are gone. Then it's just your sincerity
01:56towards your cause that takes you home. So that's how it has been in my case.
02:07If there is work to do, how do I say that my routine necessitates going to bed at 11
02:21p.m. But there is work to do and work is still not finished. So I'll have to stay awake till
02:282 a.m. or 3 a.m. and that's what, two hoots to the routine. What can I do with the routine?
02:36That's a bad advice, don't take it because it's a difficult one to bear and it really
02:46requires a bull's body to take and live this advice because this kind of a thing is actually
02:58harsh on the physical system. When you commit yourself fully to something worthwhile in life,
03:07then you have to disregard your body quite often and sometimes in a big way and in course of time,
03:19it will take its toll, not to be denied. So it depends on the depth of your love.
03:32A successful life in some sense is about dancing to somebody else's tunes,
03:42whose tunes, something bigger than yourself, and then you don't care for your own preferences,
03:59your own likes, dislikes, routines or food habits or this and that.
04:09I don't think I'll ever have the luxury of waking up at a particular time. I live in a kind of a
04:32community environment, people keep barging into my room all the time and that wakes me up.
04:39What do I do? There's never a lock here in this campus on any room, so not even on my room.
04:51People are free to walk in anytime as they please and they exercise their right with all their gust.
05:00There are times when I'm so tired in the night that I just don't have the energy to pull down
05:13the curtains. So it's 4 a.m. and exhausted, you just want to crash and the windows are all open.
05:27What's the result? The result is that at 6 a.m. you are again woken up by the sunlight and that's
05:43how it happens. No regrets. That might be a short-lived way but it's a beautiful way
06:00to surrender your routine to your cause. When you have an exam tomorrow, do you say that,
06:21this is my time to sleep or this is when I watch my favorite TV show? Do you see all that? The
06:32routine goes for a toss. What routine? There is an exam tomorrow. So give yourself a life in which
06:41there is an exam every day. Then you live very tightly, there is no slack. Then there is an
06:51automatic discipline, a discipline beyond an imposed routine. Because a routine definitely
06:59makes space for leisure etc. as well. When you say routine, that means these are the hours when I'll
07:06study, these are the hours when I'll do this, do that and these are the hours when I'll have my
07:11spare time for my leisure etc. So a routine is some kind of a luxury. You require a discipline
07:19beyond a routine. You commit yourself totally. There is that song, you are dancing to somebody's
07:29tune and the master is not you, the master is beyond you. Funny? It should be. It's actually
07:49quite funny. Hello sir, good evening. My name is Suhail and my question to you is that youngsters
08:01nowadays are very cautious about their diet, their health. They try to live a good lifestyle.
08:09So they try to wake up early. First thing they do is yoga or meditate. They try to follow a good
08:17diet etc. But yet at the end of the day, they complain about not being enough, feeling empty,
08:24feeling incomplete. Why do you suppose this happens? Because you are not born to just have
08:35a great lifestyle. You are born for a purpose and we have already spoken of the purpose. The purpose
08:45is freedom from your pre-existing bondages. This happens in Tihar. They arrange yoga for
08:56the inmates. Does that liberate them? Yoga classes are arranged for all the prisoners. That makes
09:07them more peaceful prisoners. Unfortunately, that's what a lot of yoga and meditation has
09:18become. You remain inside your prison and keep meditating. What else can you anyway do? You have
09:30been served a life sentence. You have gotten into something you cannot get out of your entire life.
09:37So meditate. That will keep you peaceful till you pass away. Meditation then becomes an obligation.
09:52Real meditation is revolution. If you are really meditative, you will rise and blow
10:17yourself up like a suicide bomber. That's what real meditativeness is. If you do not want to
10:26challenge your fundamental problems, instead you want to keep giving yourself superficial
10:32treatments. I have only salad for dinner. How will that help? How will that help? The fellow
10:45takes only salad at night. How will that help? It's all within the cage. Nice salad, Greek salad,
10:56served in the cage. How will that help? Very fit chap he is, extremely fit and the face glows. All
11:14the fitness within the cage. Push-ups and pull-ups, leg press and chest press, everything,
11:27come on, come on, within the cage. Duly sanctioned by the jailer. How will that help? The hollowness
11:38will remain. But that's the unfortunate ideal of this age. A very destructive, very pathetic ideal.
11:56Even spirituality has become so body-centric. All the spiritual teachers are talking about great
12:03diets and this and that and superfoods. What does self-knowledge have to do with superfoods? All
12:17that is just a trick to keep you confined and satisfied in the cage. Think of the parrot in
12:28the cage. You don't want to let the parrot die. So you keep serving the parrot nice things and
12:37sometimes you can even bring it a golden cage. The parrot is very happy. See, look at all the
12:44gold that I have. I even eat gold. And I see Ram Ram in the cage. If you really loved Ram,
13:13would you continue to live in the cage? Then what is this Mithu Bolo Ram Ram in the cage?
13:21What is all this spirituality and meditation and yoga? If it is not making you rebel in the
13:34loudest way possible, in the most authentic way possible. Hello sir. Sir, you were talking about
13:58the cage. So what came to me was this cage is of my tendencies and the things that just arise in
14:09me without me knowing. Did I get it right? The nature of the self is freedom. When you value
14:25something more than freedom, then you give up on the freedom to accept that thing around you.
14:33Please understand the nature of the cage. What is a cage? Something around you. Something,
14:42you are there and there is something around you. That's called a cage. That thing is around you
14:51because you have accepted it, allowed it to be around you. Basically you have said,
14:59I am trading away my freedom for this thing. Because if you want to retain your freedom,
15:08then you cannot have the cage. If you retain your freedom, can you have the cage? So it's a deal.
15:14You have bartered away your freedom for something else. Whatever it is you have
15:26bartered away your freedom for, that's called a cage. So for example, I am prepared to compromise
15:36on my freedom for the sake of your love. That's a cage. Anything that takes away your freedom
15:44is called a, that's the definition of a cage. A cage will not always look like a cage. When
15:53a bird is confined, it is obvious to see that there is a tangible material, metallic cage.
16:03The cages that we are confined in are not so tangible. So how do you detect whether you are
16:12caged? See what is it around you that exists at the cost of your freedom. See what is it around
16:23you that exists at the cost of your, whatsoever exists within or around you at the cost of your
16:32freedom is called a cage. And it will include that barter that one does to get, there is a
16:42thought that wraps one around. So that is also at the cost of my freedom. Even thought can aspire
16:53to be free. It is no mean thing to be a free thinker. Thought can obviously never be absolutely
17:00free. Thought always has the thinker at the center. So absolute freedom of thought is impossible. But
17:09even relatively, it is not a small thing to try to think freely. Even that freedom we barter for
17:19something else. Most people do not think freely because they cannot afford to think freely. If
17:25they think freely, they will be losing out on a lot of their conveniences. So they just don't
17:34freely. They pause their minds at a certain place. Beyond that they dare not go. Even in
17:43their thoughts, they do not dare to transgress certain limits. This is what I have noticed in
17:56myself as well. Because once my securities are at stake, then I stop my freedom of thought at
18:05that point. So that's what happens. Acharya ji, one more thing. You were talking about authenticity.
18:12Just before you were talking about being authentic. So either this me, this comes either from the body
18:23or the social conditioning that I have around me. So what I can see is there is just artificiality
18:37and there is no authenticity. So how can one inculcate this authenticity? Because it was a
18:51very attractive word for me, being authentic. Because I find myself being very artificial at
18:58times and that provides, that gives me suffering. So how can one inculcate this? No, you don't have
19:06to inculcate authenticity. Authenticity is your nature. You just have to figure out what is it
19:12that you are considering more important than authenticity. Once you see that there is something
19:20that you consider more important than authenticity, you will want to investigate its true value. Here
19:28this is it. Something, let's say attachment, that I am considering very very important. Even more
19:35important than authenticity, that is truth. So you go close to it and figure out whether
19:40attachment is really worth all that value. Whether attachment is really worth all that value. When
19:48you investigate, you find it does not have that kind of value. Then attachment drops,
19:54authenticity shines. Authenticity is not something you have to gain from somewhere. It's just that
20:00we start valuing other things a lot. The other things that you are valuing, you must figure out
20:07whether they are really worth it. I am sorry, but I was not able to understand this with
20:21attachment per se. Something, anything. There is authenticity that you are claiming to respect and
20:27value. At the same time you are saying you don't have enough of it and you want to obtain it. Which
20:33basically means there is something else that you are valuing more than authenticity. Something,
20:38I don't know what. You figure out. So that other thing, let's call it A, that you are valuing so
20:46much. I am saying look at it, find out whether it really makes sense to give it so much of value.
20:54Usually it is just the pleasures that I tend to give value to. Thank you.
21:06Thanks a lot sir for sharing your valuable strategies, your wisdom over all the years
21:11that you have worked and understood about life. We really appreciate you on behalf of Enactus
21:17Shyamlal College Evening for coming and sharing all the things that you did today. The thing that
21:23we are doing right now is a project called Kissa by Enactus Shyamlal College Evening. So what it
21:28does is it shares the stories and untold stories of people and also from people who are really
21:35successful at what they do. Their views and their opinions. So this is the project that we have
21:39started and it was really nice having you. Apart from this I am really a huge fan of you. Not only
21:46just what you share but of your brutal honesty. That's why I also came here to learn and understand
21:53what life is. The things that people ask are really important questions because we don't get
22:00all these answers everywhere. We see them on the internet but we don't get an in-depth answer for
22:05them. So thanks a lot for coming and sharing all the things that you did. We really appreciate the
22:10time that you did for us. Thanks a lot. Thank you.