Video Information: 18.05.2024, VBC, Greater Noida
Context:
Ethical Awakening: The Catalysts and Barriers to Change
From Awareness to Action: Understanding Ethical Decision-Making
The Paradox of Knowing: Exploring the Psychology of Ethical Inaction
Beyond Knowledge: Unraveling the Mystery of Behavioral Change
The Complexity of Conviction: Why Some Act Ethically While Others Remain Indifferent
The Moral Dilemma: Bridging the Gap Between Awareness and Action
~ What is the biggest barrier in the direction of change?
~ What is psychology the ethical inaction?
~ How far can the change brought about by morality go?
~ What is the relation between awareness and action?
~ How will real change come?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant
Context:
Ethical Awakening: The Catalysts and Barriers to Change
From Awareness to Action: Understanding Ethical Decision-Making
The Paradox of Knowing: Exploring the Psychology of Ethical Inaction
Beyond Knowledge: Unraveling the Mystery of Behavioral Change
The Complexity of Conviction: Why Some Act Ethically While Others Remain Indifferent
The Moral Dilemma: Bridging the Gap Between Awareness and Action
~ What is the biggest barrier in the direction of change?
~ What is psychology the ethical inaction?
~ How far can the change brought about by morality go?
~ What is the relation between awareness and action?
~ How will real change come?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~
#acharyaprashant
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LearningTranscript
00:00I've been listening to you since 2020, and for the past four months, I joined the session.
00:15And thank you so much for the Rohit for doing his due diligence that make sure that we are
00:20consistent with the attendance.
00:25And I've been reflecting on a point that you made about that we share since we keep
00:31a capacity and the ability to make moral decisions.
00:35It has led to me that wonder why it's for some individuals, a single incident can catalyze
00:41a profound shift where their ethical action, sorry, I'm really nervous.
00:47Whereas for other even presented with the overwhelming evidence for mass production
00:52of animal consumption, or destroying our planet, they remain entrenched in their current
00:58behavior.
00:59For an example, for me, a single incident was made me decision that I have to go vegan.
01:07And I need to do as much as I can to my capabilities to protect the environment and spread their
01:14awareness.
01:15So for some people, there is some data outside, and they watch all these documentaries, still,
01:23they say, I'm in the process.
01:24But in this process, they continue to continue to like, moving toward destruction.
01:33So I just wanted to know that, in what factor in your view contribute to this kind of disparities
01:39that they know that they're causing all the problems and suffering, but they still continue
01:45to do that.
01:46So I just can't comprehend sometimes, because even if my within my family, that no matter
01:53how much I tried to convince them, they don't want to listen.
01:59The most they will say that maybe you have studied so much.
02:02That's why they are the most popular yet.
02:07See, the reason is just diversity in Prakriti.
02:16There is physical conditioning, and there is social conditioning.
02:23There is no other reason.
02:30You can raise an animal, take an example, you can raise an animal on a diet that's not
02:39stapled to it.
02:43And the animal for the sake of its survival might adjust to this kind of non-staple diet.
02:54But even then, years later, if one day for the first time the animal gets a chance to
03:05return to what it's biologically made for, it will immediately take the opportunity.
03:17And then you will say, see, some people learn with such little instruction.
03:29They are so eager and prompt to take the cue.
03:35It's coming a bit from their body.
03:39And similarly, it can come from all the mental stuff that we absorb over the years.
03:48Different people have gone through different experiences, and that changes their receptivity
04:01towards improvement.
04:06So these two things are there, but what overrides both the physical and the social conditioning
04:16is your capacity, your desire to really change, be free, be liberated.
04:27If that is there, then it does not matter how strong your bonds of conditioning are.
04:38And that again is something you cannot always dictate.
04:44That desire to be uplifted is a matter of love.
04:48And it cannot be dictated, commanded, cultivated, organized.
05:00If it happens, it happens.
05:02It's a matter of the person's choice.
05:05So these two plus one factors are there.
05:10How you are from the body, how you have been receiving your experiences since birth.
05:22And the third point is somewhat of a mystery.
05:27Is there love in your heart?
05:30Do you want to make difficult choices?
05:34These three things are there.
05:38What to do then if people do not listen?
05:41What to do if they are very strongly physically and socially conditioned and are showing very
05:47little evidence of any spark of love?
05:53The answer is a bit similar to the one that I gave to our previous participant.
06:02Please defocus.
06:05So aim is to save the animals, not just to improve your family.
06:18Your love is directed towards animal welfare, not family welfare.
06:25And animals are being consumed by seven billion people on this planet, more than that.
06:37Why target only four or five of your family members?
06:43Why not work in a more general way?
06:48Maybe there are people right at the edge, just waiting to be converted.
06:58Low-hanging fruits, as we call them.
07:02Why not pick them first?
07:07As they say, what's the point flogging a dead horse?
07:11There are people who might not listen to you their entire life, even if you break your
07:15head against them.
07:20And a fraction of that energy, if invested on the right candidate, would have yielded
07:24far better results.
07:27We want to save animals.
07:31We don't want to just save a few of our family members from wrongdoing.
07:44So that's the way to go and remember in the three points that we said, a fellow can be
07:52blamed only for the third one.
07:55Only the third one is a choice and it's a very sovereign choice.
08:03For point one and two, that person cannot even be blamed.
08:07Who has control over his physical composition?
08:13You cannot turn a lion vegetarian.
08:16I'm not saying you cannot turn a human being vegetarian, but just to make a point.
08:26So it's a very strong thing, physical conditioning.
08:30People are made differently.
08:31Diversity is Prakriti.
08:34Some people will always be outliers without any credit or offense to them.
08:44It's just a thing of normal distribution.
08:48Yeah, so my question along the line was, it was not more so for just the family member.
08:57Can you hear me?
09:00It was not just for the family member.
09:03I kind of gave up on them.
09:05They will come along when they come along.
09:07It was more for, so since I became vegan, I started the animal rights movement in New York City.
09:15So we do a lot of campaigning and Christ's Pharisee was also was showed in local theater.
09:24And I saw you too.
09:25I was so excited to see you.
09:27So after that, we conducted a little survey among the people that why people wanted to,
09:34the facts are out there, but they just completely wanted to deny it.
09:38They are afraid to see the facts.
09:40And at the same time, they're like they're in the process.
09:42So that was more towards like the overall general population that they know whatever they are doing, it's wrong.
09:50But they still wanted to continue.
09:52But for some people, it's easy to see the facts.
09:55Just for me, like I saw, so I was not vegetarian.
09:58I used to consume chicken occasionally.
10:01And when I adopted a cat, the question came to me that how can I love my cat,
10:08but at the same time, I'm consuming a chicken or a fish.
10:12So that decision, like overnight, I completely made a decision that to go vegan.
10:17But for some reason, for other people, it's not easy.
10:21Even they went to the theater, they saw the movie and they saw the history,
10:26but still it's difficult for them.
10:31When you say other people, the other people are an entire spectrum.
10:36I talked of the normal Gaussian distribution.
10:40Catch those who are relatively more ready currently.
10:49Start there.
10:50What else can be done?
10:51You see, if we reach out to so many million people, in fact, a billion,
11:04and then this conversation becomes possible.
11:12Filter after filter after filter ultimately yields a handful who are ready.
11:20And that's the nature of this process.
11:24It starts slowly and then gains disproportionate momentum, rises exponentially.
11:35The first few wins are always extraordinarily difficult.
11:44And then you do not even realize when the tide has turned your way.
11:50It happens.
11:52The point is to just keep working without letting sentiments impede your energy.
12:05You have to be very logical in this.
12:08Emotionality and logic do not go together, but compassion needs a lot of logic.
12:18When you are compassionate, then you will be brutally logical.
12:26And you will say it's about saving animals and let me see what is the best way to save
12:34them.
12:35If this fellow doesn't want to listen, I'll speak to somebody else.
12:40I look at the data, I'll analyze it and I'll figure out the segment that's going to be
12:44more receptive.
12:45I'll approach them.
12:48I'll do all my maths and I'll be very scientific in the way I need to approach them.
12:59We do that every day.
13:00We know how tough it is.
13:02I'm not trivializing your problem.
13:03I understand.
13:04But I also know how to go about it, or a little bit of it, within my limits.
13:14I mean, a 0.1% success rate, we don't mind that.
13:29Even those who fill up the form to get connected to the courses run by the foundation, even
13:40among them, the ones who really opt in, the rate is 3%, 5%, 10% if we are lucky.
13:54And we know it's going to be that way.
13:59That's the rule of the game.
14:02You could as well say, I don't want to play the game.
14:04But if you want to play the game, then you'll have to play by the rules.
14:10These are the rules.
14:15Just keep throwing the ball at the wall.
14:23It does happen that something called quantum tunneling.
14:32One particular attempt, the ball goes through.
14:38Waiting for that day.
14:41And call also rhymes well with all this.
14:44One particular attempt, the call goes through.
14:54Just keep trying.
14:55There is no other way.
14:57You cannot not try.
14:59You have to just keep trying.
15:00There is no other way.
15:03Use all your resources, all your mental acumen, all your education, all your logical ability.
15:10Assess it to the service of the right cause.
15:17We have no space for disappointment.
15:20Disappointment is an energy dissipator.
15:23And you will have massive reasons to be disappointed.
15:27It's very important to not to let that disappointment consume your energy.
15:37Stephanie, continue to try and then you are the strength behind all of us, the young generation
15:48to make a difference.
15:50And being a health care provider, I try my best to give them that you really don't need
15:56all these animal products to keep yourself healthy.
16:02But again, it's just really hard.
16:05This is the society and they've been conditioned, especially in the U.S.
16:08Like you will see a laughing cow picture on the cheese marketed or laughing pig on a fork.
16:17So it's hard.
16:18It's because they don't know where the food is coming from.
16:21So it's really hard to show the real picture.
16:23So the thing we can try to educate people that, especially the little kids, ask yourself
16:29where the food is coming from, see the reality, and then you make a difference.
16:33Then you make a decision that whether you wanted to choose the right or wrong.
16:38So this is the strategy.
16:40It will show results, but in its own way, we do not know how and in which way things
16:50will fructify.
16:52Just keep doing the right thing.
16:54Just keep doing that.
16:55If you're doing the right thing, it is impossible that the right results won't come, but they
17:00don't always come in ways we expect.
17:04So don't expect.
17:06Just do.
17:12Continue to fight.
17:13I'm glad.