1% of Ram? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00have you ever just let it sink into you what it means to spend 14 years in the

00:15wilderness and try to wrap your head around the idea you are the crown prince

00:26Yuvraj and you have been dispatched to the damn forest how does that even sound

00:44it sounds unacceptable to us he lived it and he lived it with unequaled grace

00:52look at his poise not once did he complain in fact he used these 14 years to the maximum

01:03and he fought the most powerful force of his times and who was he somebody ostracized from

01:21his kingdom somebody serving a sentence almost and he's fighting the shannon the one who is

01:34said to have incarcerated even the various gods and goddesses in his prison cells that

01:50the shannon was fought almost empty-handed by one Shri Ram that's my Ram

02:06one needs to have at least one percent of him in oneself in order to worship him no

02:21at least one percent what's one percent of 14 years

02:39quick hmm yes point one four years but what does that mean

02:47how many days

02:58hmm around 50 days 51 to be precise

03:10would you spend 51 days just because you are randomly told to that too on the eve of your

03:28coronation you are about to rise to the throne and somebody tells you know you are dispatched

03:39to the Amazon 51 days no gadgets nothing at least be one percent of Shri Ram Chandra I'm

03:55not asking you to try it out I just want you to see how unacceptable even the idea is right

04:06our securities our comforts rebel against the very thought he lived it out and he lived it

04:19out in the most humane just and compassionate way possible without ever cribbing and he ended

04:32those 14 years bringing down the mightiest Empire of his times that's my superhero

04:49and you want to reduce Diwali to a festival of

04:55Rasgulla

05:00Rabri

05:05huh

05:13son papdi

05:18hmm kalakanth did Ramchandra enjoy all these things why the hell are you enjoying all these

05:35things on his day because we are very very small and little and petty people who want

05:48just an excuse to further their dirty instincts of consumption we just want to consume on some

06:01pretext something so Diwali becomes just another occasion to it's an explosion of consumption

06:31so next Diwali let's

06:55emerge as deserving celebrants let's assert our right next Diwali and then you will find that

07:16the festival has really invoked another dimension within you then that night will be special

07:46you

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