Video Information: with IIT Delhi, 24.07.22, Delhi
Context:
~ Is money important?
~ How much money should one earn?
~ How to earn right livelihood?
~ Who deserves to have money?
~ If mostly wrong people hold power and money how would right people get into power?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ Is money important?
~ How much money should one earn?
~ How to earn right livelihood?
~ Who deserves to have money?
~ If mostly wrong people hold power and money how would right people get into power?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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LearningTranscript
00:00Very good afternoon, Aashiriji.
00:11So just let me introduce myself first, I'm Dr. Anasuya Roy, PhD from Textile Technology
00:15in 2019.
00:17So my question is, so you always say that truth or righteousness is actually the one
00:27who needs Shakti, advertisement or power, right, whereas Maya, on the other hand, is
00:32rampantly advertised and promoted.
00:35But if you look at today's context, money is also a very powerful tool, which resides
00:40mostly with several people who might not be so much righteous.
00:44So what do you suggest?
00:45Do we transform those power holders, who are power holders of money into righteous one?
00:51Or do you say that we should, you know, transform those people into more righteous ones?
00:58Should the money be transferred or should the people be transferred into a more righteous
01:02one, if I'm making any sense?
01:04So if the latter is correct, how would you earn a huge money power from the system of
01:09Maya, and without succumbing yourself to Maya?
01:13And eventually, what's the point?
01:15Because if you look at any particular time, there will be an equilibrium in the existence
01:19of both the right and wrong person's holding power.
01:22So this impact, I believe, won't be realized or be felt by the society, if you can kindly
01:28enlighten me on this issue.
01:31You see, this has always been the case and some kind of a solution has been found, depending
01:46on the specifics of the time and the age.
01:53You look at that classical duel between Ram and Ravan.
02:00Ravan was the superpower of that time.
02:05All the resources were concentrated in his hands, were they not?
02:11And the palace itself was of gold.
02:16What more can be said?
02:19And he was sought to be reformed initially, obviously.
02:26The first attempt has to be to enlighten the other, to try to reform the other.
02:37But that usually won't work.
02:40And when that does not work, then there has to be strife and struggle, dharmiyudh.
02:50It's not without reason that the most important scripture of the Sanatan fold is set on the
03:13battleground, Bhagavad Gita.
03:18So, and even there, on the battlefield, the Pandava side was, in terms of resources and
03:32numbers, significantly less powerful than their adversaries.
03:41So solutions have to be found.
03:44On one hand, you have to try to bring people like Duryodhana in line.
03:51So Vidura tried to say something to him, Bhishma tried to show some sense to him.
03:57Even Krishna went to teach him and somehow get him to agree to peace.
04:07Sometimes that works, sometimes that may not work.
04:10When that does not work, then you have to figure out how to accumulate resources and
04:17how to have the tactical wherewithal to confront the enemy and then you take them on, you take
04:28them on.
04:29There is no other way.
04:31You talked of the rich people in today's era.
04:38You see, if we could be a people who work on consciousness, then the riches would ideally
04:52belong to the people who have the consciousness to utilize those riches.
05:02It would be a simple equation.
05:06The extent of resources at your disposal must be proportional to the depth of your
05:14consciousness.
05:17Simple equation that would determine how much money a person must have or could have.
05:24On the contrary, if you have a society in which people with very ordinary or even below
05:33ordinary levels of consciousness are commanding resources and power, then that society is
05:41bound to go down as we are seeing today.
05:48And that's adharma in the social sense.
05:53That's exactly what Shri Krishna was trying to avoid.
05:57Hastinapur was the most important and the most powerful kingdom of the time.
06:03Krishna didn't want that all those resources should go into undeserving hands like that
06:14of Duryodhana.
06:16It was not just a matter of justice prevailing in the sense of a feud between brothers.
06:25It was not something internal to one family.
06:29It was something that was going to affect a lot of other people, the entire population
06:35of Hastinapur and also probably all the other kingdoms in the Indian subcontinent.
06:46It had a much wider context.
06:49So dharma then had to be upheld and that's why the battle had to be fought and that's
06:56why the Gita had to be narrated.
07:00That's something that you would need in every era because Maya is at work continuously.
07:10And so she ensures that all kinds of nonsensical and atrocious things keep happening.
07:21All kinds of undeserving people keep getting power.
07:29They keep becoming the presidents and the prime ministers of the world and even evil
07:36minds keep getting to accumulate wealth and influence.
07:46So when you see that happening, then it's upon you to go back to the Gita and remember
07:58what was instructed to you and not be shy of a good battle.