Video Information: conversation: 30.08.22, Bodhsthal, Greater Noida
Context:
What is the solution to climate change?
How spirituality can stop the climate change?
Climate change have no scientific solution
How veganism is related to compassion?
Why veganism is necessary for today's generation?
What is the relation between veganism and climate change?
How could veganism change the world?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
What is the solution to climate change?
How spirituality can stop the climate change?
Climate change have no scientific solution
How veganism is related to compassion?
Why veganism is necessary for today's generation?
What is the relation between veganism and climate change?
How could veganism change the world?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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LearningTranscript
00:00It is truly widely accepted as a concept of meditation, but what about, so I have a question
00:15actually.
00:16I am sitting in awareness and being equanimous, right?
00:19You can be in a meditative state even when you are not acting, like right now we are
00:25performing actions and also but in awareness.
00:28The thing is, the intention is perfectly alright.
00:32The problem with that is you are constantly acting.
00:35Even if you are sitting, you think you are not acting, but you are always in action.
00:39We are creatures of creativity and she is the mother of time and time never stops.
00:45Which means action will not stop.
00:46Time means change.
00:47Change means action.
00:48So even when you think you are sitting still, you are still acting.
00:52Which means meditation has to be in the middle of action.
00:55Not in the middle of relaxation or certain pose or asana or mudra or silence.
01:02If you have to be continuously silent to meditate, how can I meditate from the podium?
01:08I have to speak there.
01:10Therefore, this thing that one has to sit and be silent and then be meditative is alright
01:16to begin with, but cannot take you very far.
01:19So is this a practice that one does not necessarily need to include?
01:23Because you are not on the podium all the time and you are also not sitting.
01:28I ask, if you have to close your eyes to meditate, how will you meditate while driving?
01:33How will a cab driver, a professional Uber driver meditate?
01:36If you have to close your eyes to meditate, he has to drive all the day.
01:40Action is continuous.
01:43In the moment of your death, you are acting.
01:45Even if you are sitting silently, it is still action.
01:48Which means one has to learn to be meditative right in the thick of action.
01:52Creating an artificial environment of silence, tranquility and sitting in a cultivated pose
02:00are good to begin with.
02:03Good to begin with, but that's what they are.
02:07Stuff for the beginners.
02:09And because they are meditation 101, therefore they must not be carried forward too much.
02:16Begin with them and then drop them.
02:18You cannot practice that kind of meditation for 20 years.
02:21That's something for 6 months.
02:23Now you can graduate to the higher levels of meditativeness.
02:27Where you say, I do not need to sit down anywhere.
02:29I am anyway meditative all the time.
02:31And if I am not meditative all the time, then what's the point of meditation?
02:34Suppose I am a very meditative being in my home.
02:37And when I come down here to talk to you, I am out of meditation.
02:41Does that help me?
02:43So you are in a meditative state throughout your life and what you do.
02:47And because the enemies of meditation will occur only when you are in the thick of action.
02:52Therefore it is in the thick of action that you must practice meditation.
02:56Meditation is like catching a thief.
02:59Who is the thief? The enemy of meditation.
03:01What is the enemy of meditation? All the egoic tendencies.
03:03Now do you catch a thief by warning it in advance?
03:07If you tell the thief between 7 am and 8 am I am going to sit in meditation.
03:12What will the thief do?
03:14The thief will hide.
03:16Whereas you need to be meditative the most when the thief is out in the open and dominating your life.
03:22Let's say when you are in the shop and the thief called greed is overpowering you.
03:28That's when you need to be meditative.
03:30But you say, no I have done all my meditation.
03:32The kota has been exhausted in the morning.
03:34Now I don't need to be meditative.
03:36And now the thief on a rampage.
03:39So it can be the groundwork. It can give you the tools to be meditative.
03:43It can give you a glimpse to fall in love with.
03:46So is the theme of yoga the same?
03:50How is it aligned with yoga?
03:52It is the same. That which we call as yoga.
03:54So yoga.
03:56Yoga is wonderful.
03:58But even to know yoga one has to first go to Virat.
04:04Even yoga declares its allegiance to Vedantic philosophy.
04:10Yoga is an Aasthak Darshan.
04:14Which means it is devoted to the Vedas.
04:16So if you do not know the fundamental Vedic philosophy which is Vedanta.
04:21You cannot even be a good yogi.
04:23Patanjali's Yogasutras do not take precedence over Upanishads.
04:31The Upanishads come first.
04:33The Yogasutras come later.
04:35So even in the tradition of the Yogasutras we limit ourselves to the first two steps.
04:44Ashram Yoga.
04:46Hardly anybody goes beyond that.
04:48So even that we do not fully complete.
04:51What to talk of going to the fundamentals of the yogic wisdom which is Vedanta.
04:59It is all very commercialized, very incomplete and very harmful.
05:11So is the concept of Ahimsa too harmful?
05:13Obviously. You cannot be Ahimsa without being a Vedanti.
05:18Full stop.
05:20Ahimsa is not about saying I will not harm the dog or the cow.
05:24That is not Ahimsa. That is a symptom of Ahimsa.
05:28When you are Ahimsa then obviously you do not want to harm anybody.
05:32And then you also realize the meaning of harm.
05:36Otherwise harm to us because we are body identified.
05:39Harm to us remains just about not harming somebody's body.
05:43So I will not say bad things to you. I will not harm your mental states.
05:47And I will not do bad things to your body. So I will not harm your body.
05:50And we say that is Ahimsa.
05:51Now that is only a very small part of, a very superficial part of Ahimsa.
05:56A small symptom of Ahimsa. Ahimsa is something much deeper.
05:59If you do not have that then you cannot be a good human being.
06:02And to be Ahimsa you will have to go to the Vedanta philosophy.
06:09You will have to realize from where does all the violence really come.
06:13Without going to the root of violence you cannot be non-violent.
06:17Now just a minute. You can't be good at anything.
06:23That's all. When you are good then you are good in everything.
06:28Only then you can be a good father, good mother, good friend, good whatever, good employee, good business owner, good soldier, good lawyer or a good legal.
06:37If you are not good you cannot be good in anything. That's it.
06:40But we say I am not a good father but I want to be good to animals.
06:44That's not going to happen. That's not going to happen.
06:48So now we are going to, sorry, we are going to Gujarat.
06:52Especially Rajkot where I am from.
06:55And they are very pure vegetarian, don't even have eggs.
06:59Like you said approach it with love.
07:02What's your advice when we go there?
07:05How do we approach this with love that they feel okay now maybe even dairy is the next step.
07:12We don't need to talk about veganism to begin with.
07:16We just need to talk about the life of an animal.
07:19What all does it go through and what are the bad things that happen to it.
07:22And do you think all this should happen?
07:25Let them come up and say no I don't want these things to happen to the animal because to me the animal is like my family.
07:32First of all they have to confess that.
07:35Otherwise even if I bring them to admit that bad things are happening to the animal.
07:40But along with that the feeling remains that the animal is very separated from me.
07:46The two of us are disjoint entities.
07:48Then I will say that whatever is happening happens.
07:51How am I bothered?
07:53So the feeling that that conscious being and this conscious being are somewhere very related.
08:00First of all the feeling has to be aroused.
08:02If you can arouse that feeling then he will automatically think am I doing bad things to that thing.
08:08Or are bad things happening to that thing because of my ignorance, in my ignorance.
08:15And then he will say oh my god that thing is not just a thing.
08:19That thing is me.
08:21And when that comes that is ahimsa.
08:24That thing is not just a thing.
08:26That thing is the conscious entity that I am.
08:29And only then can there be care and love and compassion.
08:34Otherwise you can bring graphic details of all the violence to someone.
08:41And he will still continue to say yeah I can see lot of bloodshed.
08:45And once you are gone he will order his butterscotch.
08:51Not that displaying graphic violence doesn't help.
08:53It does help.
08:54Because it arouses a certain disgust.
08:57But it does not suffice.
08:59We have tried that.
09:01We have shown all those things.
09:03The fellow has seen those things.
09:05Has been moved for a moment.
09:07And once you are off he is on.
09:15I have many more questions but I am going to request that.
09:18Sure.