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~ Why do we need small percentage of people to bring change?
~ What type of leaders do we need to create?
~ What are the two types of people?
~ How many people do we need to control the masses?
~ How to fight against our own innate nature?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant
Context:
~ Why do we need small percentage of people to bring change?
~ What type of leaders do we need to create?
~ What are the two types of people?
~ How many people do we need to control the masses?
~ How to fight against our own innate nature?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
#acharyaprashant
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00:00I know in one of your videos, you mentioned that we don't need 50% or more to institutionalize
00:11change.
00:12We just need a small percentage.
00:14And I don't really understand that logic, what you were pointing to.
00:20See, the majority is anyway never very capable of, or very willing to take life in its own
00:35hands.
00:36That's the way things are.
00:38We are not alleging or we are not trying to be judgmental in that sense.
00:46That's just the way things are and things always have been.
00:50The bulk of the people want to have somebody to look forward, look up to.
00:59It's these leaders that we need, rather we need to create.
01:08And then the people, the bulk of people, they will come along.
01:17So that's what, it's really when it comes to change, it is these two persons who matter.
01:28Though when change gets executed, it appears as if 80 or 90% of the population has participated
01:41in the change.
01:42But the fact is, it's only the 2% active ones.
01:50For example, you may talk of the, in Indian context, the revolt of 1857, and you speak
02:00of it as if entire India rose in rebellion.
02:04No, it was just a handful of people.
02:07Similarly, if you look at the Russian or the French revolutions, we talk of them as if
02:15the entire country of Russia and France were up in arms.
02:20Was that really the case?
02:23We talk of the non-cooperation movement of Mahatma Gandhi, how many people were really
02:30with him?
02:32The vast majority is usually indifferent.
02:36That's the way they are.
02:39So it's the, I'm not saying one person can do it all.
02:46But you also do not require one crore people.
02:50The number is not one, but it's closer to one than one crore.
02:59That's the kind of numbers we need.
03:01And the most difficult part of operation is getting the first 10 people.
03:0810 to 10,000 is easier, 10,000 to 10,000,000 is even easier, and 10,000,000 to 10 crore
03:18is a jiffy.
03:24So it's the initial part, the formative part that we are still struggling with.
03:36Actually we need not look at these one or two person people as individuals.
03:44It's like this, you could say it is that part of the overall structure of society that moves
03:53the society.
03:54Just as when you are running, all parts of your body are at a certain speed, but it's
04:04only the legs that are moving.
04:06But you don't say that the legs are running, you say the man is running.
04:11Similarly, it's these one or two percent that would be the legs that would carry the society
04:18along.
04:19I'm still a little skeptical that one or two percent could institutionalize such a huge
04:26change.
04:27Coming to the fact of today, if you look at the masses, how many people are really controlling
04:35these masses?
04:36And you very well know that they are being controlled.
04:39Now think of the numbers that exercise the control.
04:44One or two percent is a very, very large, it's an exaggeration.
04:49It's 0.1 percent.
04:50But it's the right people, right?
04:52So it's not a random occurrence that the people in power, right?
04:57So that's what you see, the one or two percent I'm talking of would be very special people.
05:06That's why I didn't talk of finding them.
05:08I talked of creating them.
05:10They'll need to be created.
05:15That's the part where the maximum effort is needed.
05:22After that, things are smooth.
05:26Because these one or two percent people have to be rich, they have to be powerful, and
05:32they have to want to implement change, right?
05:35Conditions have to be met.
05:36Not necessarily that they have to be rich and all that.
05:40Not necessarily.
05:43But yes, a few conditions have to be met, like tilling the ground and sowing the seeds.
05:49After that, not much effort is needed.
05:54Not that after that nothing is needed, but the bulk of the work has been done.
05:59And especially if you say that as humans, we are not designed biologically for this.
06:06At least to me, it seems like there's always going to be work and fighting against our innate nature.
06:15Yeah, that's why only one or two percent, because not everybody will choose to do that.
06:21Even that one or two percent, I repeat, is a very, very big number.
06:27Because we are not trying to be choosy or selective.
06:32We are talking of people who will actively go against themselves, who will fight against themselves.
06:40So, that's the reason why finding even a few such people is a mammoth task.
06:49Once, I am very sure about it, once the core is created, let's say a few hundred or a few
06:56thousand people, after that it's going to be smoother, way smoother.
07:05I mean, it always seems the hardest when you're starting off or when you're just starting off.
07:11And especially when you're starting off even 20 years after having started off.
07:23Not 20, but at least 15.
07:26So, 15 years and you still feel as if you're starting off.
07:31There's a bit of fatigue that creeps in.
07:39Then you also see what has come after the 15 years that wasn't there initially.
07:47And there's a lot that's come in the last 15 years.
07:51I guess it just doesn't seem fast enough.
07:53It's not fast enough.
07:55Direction is not a problem.
07:57Destination is not a problem.
07:59The speed is the problem.
08:01The direction is right.
08:03The destination is certain.
08:05I don't even think about those things.
08:07It's the speed that I'm frustrated with.
08:11Is this tussle always going to go on throughout human existence?
08:18It used to exist.
08:19It doesn't exist.
08:20It exists now.
08:21Someone's fighting for it.
08:22Someone's fighting against it.
08:26Is this just how things are going to be?
08:30More or less.
08:33See, that's the human body.
08:35That's the human body.
08:37That's what we are born with and born into.
08:41As long as the human body is the way it is,
08:45human condition will be the way it is.
08:51You cannot have the same body as we have
08:56and still hope to have a fundamentally different world.
09:02This world is this body.
09:04So, more or less,
09:11every age will see the same kind of conflict being played out
09:19again and again
09:22in its own form,
09:24in a style, in a form,
09:28characteristic of that particular age.
09:34But as long as there is birth,
09:39there is youth,
09:41there is old age,
09:42as long as somebody is a man,
09:44somebody is a woman,
09:46as long as we grow up and we want to accumulate
09:51and we want to be rich,
09:54as long as man and woman have that attraction towards each other,
10:01man wants to chase woman,
10:03woman wants to have kids.
10:06That's the human condition, you know?
10:09It's embedded in the body.
10:13The world that we see outside is actually a thing of the body.
10:18It seems like there are always these patterns that keep repeating.
10:23So, say for example,
10:25pandemic looks like war,
10:29then perhaps famine is being speculated
10:33and all these things have happened in the past.
10:35It seems like we're just living.
10:38We kind of know what's going to happen again and again.
10:41We just don't know the time when it's going to happen.
10:44Because we have two hands
10:47and the number of hands is not changing.
10:50Because we have the brain
10:52and the size and the configuration of the brain is not changing.
10:58Because we continue to be inwardly the same as we always have been.
11:06Therefore, outwardly the world will not fundamentally change.
11:11It's just that a few things here and there.
11:17You very well know there's going to be the day and the night.
11:21It's just that at some places there is day,
11:25at other places there is the night.
11:28So that much of deviation or variation can be there.
11:35We very well know the way we are.
11:39We will create problems on ourselves.
11:43And given that we need food
11:47and food is so important to us.
11:55Food is going to be
11:58one of the major problems
12:02that we are ever going to have.
12:07So irrespective of the technological growth
12:11remains our certainty.
12:13It sounds strange.
12:14How is it possible that in this century
12:17we'll still not have enough to eat?
12:22That's because
12:25we do not understand
12:28the relationship between man and his world.
12:32We think that
12:37man remaining the same,
12:39his external conditions can still change.
12:43We think that technology can bring about a fundamental difference.
12:46It cannot.
12:47And that seems to be the lesson of history.
12:49And we still remain so optimistic.
12:52But we just don't see the patterns that repeat themselves.
12:55There is something very important about optimism.
12:59What is this thing called optimism?
13:02It's self-delusion.
13:04You being what you are,
13:09you stubbornly remaining who you are,
13:14you are still optimistic
13:16that you will be different
13:18and your conditions will be different
13:20and the world will be a better place.
13:23This is called optimism.
13:25I'll remain who I am
13:27but my conditions will change
13:29and the world will have a better tomorrow.
13:31This is optimism.
13:35Basically, it's just foolhardy.
13:39At least,
13:41I find it even scarier today.
13:44When I study history,
13:46wars usually had slower progressions.
13:49And when I look at what's happening today,
13:51especially given what's happening
13:53with NATO, Ukraine, Russia, the US,
13:56the speed at which it's accelerated,
13:58like in literally three weeks,
14:00where there's now economic war
14:02as well as physical war,
14:06at least for me, seems very unknowing
14:08when I study what's happened before in history.
14:11I wasn't alive at the Cuban Missile Crisis time
14:14but it feels very similar
14:18when we could just blow ourselves up
14:21and end human existence.
14:24And I've never really thought
14:26that this would happen in my life.
14:28And for the first time, I'm getting the inkling of
14:31wow, people are crazier
14:34than I thought they were
14:36or they're just not able to study
14:38from the mistakes of the past.
14:41See, if we remain the way we are
14:46and we continue to make technological progress,
14:51then obviously that technology
14:53is going to be used for self-harm.
14:56It's just that there can be
14:59long stretches
15:02when we somehow,
15:06with some wisdom and some luck,
15:09manage to
15:12just survive
15:16in periods of relative peace.
15:20And that will
15:22embolden us to
15:26speculate that
15:33we are wise people
15:36and that
15:39we are capable of peace,
15:42that we are deserving of peace.
15:47But reality has a tendency
15:49to show up
15:51at the most inappropriate times.
15:54Bad habit.
15:57So, just when
16:00you are somehow recovering from COVID,
16:03you have a war at hand.
16:09How wise?
16:12A world that is
16:14facing the worst kind of pandemic
16:16in over a century.
16:19Even before it has fully recovered.
16:22And we do not know
16:24whether the virus or variant
16:26might as well be on its way.
16:28In fact, it is actually on its way.
16:30That's what all research tells us.
16:34With the virus on the prowl,
16:38that's when we
16:41find it opportune
16:45to have a nuclear war.
16:49As if the pandemic were insufficient.
16:53So that's how wise we are.
16:56And we,
17:00in celebration of our wisdom,
17:03have gifted ourselves
17:05massive nuclear arsenals.
17:10We are so wise.
17:12We deserve to have so many nuclear heads.
17:20Actually, we just don't know who we are.
17:24The human condition
17:26is of gross
17:28over-estimation of itself.
17:32Who is a human being?
17:34To say that a human being
17:36is a one who does not know himself
17:38is a very
17:40feeble statement.
17:43A human being
17:46is a chimpanzee
17:48who thinks he is not.
17:52That's the right definition.
17:54No chimpanzee ever thinks
17:56he is not a chimpanzee.
17:58A human being
18:00is a chimpanzee
18:02who thinks he is somebody else.
18:06And he has given him
18:08himself,
18:10venerated himself with
18:12a very honorable name,
18:14human being.
18:20Lack of self-knowledge.
18:22You know, so when I read history,
18:24whenever there is
18:26excessive population in the world,
18:28there's usually been one of two events,
18:30three events. It's either famine,
18:32it's either war,
18:34or it's some form of
18:36pandemic or infectious disease.
18:38And it seems like we've sidestepped.
18:40Maybe the pandemic, maybe.
18:42We don't know. The virus could
18:44be figuring out how to
18:46most effectively kill us.
18:48But it seems like we've just stepped into
18:50another way of reducing
18:52our population.
18:54And is this the end game?
18:56That as long as we don't wise it up,
18:58it's just going to be these cycles.
19:02In prakriti,
19:04there is a thing called
19:06compassion, just as there is a thing called wisdom.
19:08So no
19:10wisdom
19:12from man's side, no
19:14compassion from prakriti's side.
19:16We act like
19:18material beings.
19:20She kills us
19:22like one
19:24sweats flies.
19:26With wisdom, there is compassion.
19:32You display wisdom,
19:34she displays compassion.
19:36You have no wisdom,
19:38she has no compassion.
19:42So then you are
19:44eradicated
19:46in thousands and millions,
19:50who knows,
19:52in billions.
19:56Once you press the
19:58nuclear button,
20:00it's not going to be one
20:02nuclear weapon.
20:04It's going to be
20:06as many as possible.
20:08It's going to be
20:10weapons as long as there remain
20:12fingers to press buttons.
20:18The last weapon
20:20would be when
20:22there is a last finger
20:24to launch it.
20:26Nobody is going to take
20:28a nuclear assault sitting.
20:30Once
20:32the weapon has been launched,
20:34all the weapons have been
20:36launched.
20:38Our neighboring country,
20:40one of the leaders
20:42very famously said
20:46that we didn't
20:50make the bomb and the
20:52missiles
20:56to use as firecrackers
20:58in weddings.
21:00They are real things
21:02to be
21:04really
21:06used.
21:10So when we get the
21:12opportunity, we will really use them.
21:14In fact,
21:16there are
21:18so many
21:20people
21:22just
21:24dying to use them.
21:28The question
21:30is
21:32is existence even a value?
21:36If we talk of
21:44the eradication
21:46of the human race
21:48as if it were
21:50a big calamity
21:52in the eyes of all,
21:54as if
21:56existence, the existence
21:58of the human race is
22:00something
22:02that is absolutely
22:04and unanimously a value.
22:08The question I want you to consider is
22:12do most human beings
22:14even value existence?
22:16And if we don't
22:18value existence,
22:20why would we think
22:22that existence being wiped out
22:24is a great calamity?
22:28When people exist,
22:30do they value their existence?
22:32If they don't value their existence,
22:34why will they
22:36feel
22:38tremendously horrified about
22:40the prospect of them existing
22:42no more?
22:44When I exist,
22:48I don't respect existence.
22:50So why will I be so worried
22:52whether I will exist anymore?
22:54And why will I give two hoops
22:56if entire existence is
22:58wiped out?
23:00And you look at human beings and you don't
23:02get credible proof
23:04that we do indeed respect our existence.
23:10But the people who are exercising
23:12their power, they surely
23:14appear to be the ones who
23:16value their existence.
23:18Or so they
23:20display.
23:28So most people seem to be
23:30scared of
23:32dying or loss of existence.
23:34It seems like they value the pleasure
23:36and the happiness that they...
23:40Yeah.
23:42Existence
23:44in reality is not
23:46the existence of the body.
23:50As far as bodily existence
23:52is concerned, you know
23:54and I know and everyone else knows
23:56it is anyway going to be
23:58there no more.
24:00It's a limited thing in limited time.
24:04So you can't value it beyond a point.
24:06If you want
24:08to value physical existence beyond a point,
24:10you will always be
24:12faced with the right argument
24:14that the body itself is ephemeral.
24:16The body
24:18itself is ephemeral.
24:20That's the argument
24:22that they give while slaughtering old animals.
24:24They say, you know
24:26this cow,
24:28she does not produce any milk now
24:30and
24:32she's getting old and she'll anyway
24:34last no longer than 2-3 years
24:36and in these 2-3 years
24:38she's anyway going to eat
24:40filth and be on the road and suffer.
24:42So I'm actually
24:46done a favor
24:48to her by slaughtering her.
24:52The fact
24:54that the body will
24:56be no more one day
24:58enables you
25:02to conduct
25:04bodily slaughter.
25:06That's the argument.
25:10But there is
25:12another existence that is not bodily
25:14and that has to be respected.
25:18That we do not respect.
25:22Could we
25:24respect that?
25:26We would know
25:28that the purpose of life is
25:30not
25:32accumulation of power or weapons
25:34or this or that.
25:38The purpose of life is
25:40veneration. The purpose of life is
25:42that which
25:44exists
25:46for the sake
25:48of completion.
25:50The purpose of life is to
25:52take that thing to completion
25:54and that thing is
25:56related to the body
25:58but is not really bodily.
26:00That thing
26:02becomes manifest
26:04along with the body
26:08but is itself not bodily.
26:10I'm talking of consciousness.
26:12Could we respect
26:14consciousness?
26:16We would have very little time to respect
26:18power and destruction
26:20and
26:22brinkmanship
26:24and such things.
26:26Because we don't respect consciousness
26:28we have ample time and energy
26:30to devote to all kinds of nonsense.
26:32It's very sad
26:34to see that
26:36that thing which is very valuable
26:38consciousness
26:40is also something
26:42which is not
26:44power.
26:46It doesn't have power
26:48in the world.
26:52All the power that you have
26:54is for the sake of consciousness.
27:02You have to
27:04decide whether you want to use
27:06power
27:08to uplift consciousness or to destroy
27:10consciousness.
27:14In either case
27:16power
27:18is related to consciousness.
27:22It's just that you are
27:24so blind.
27:26The power that you gather
27:28thinking that it will do you good
27:30you use that power
27:32to destroy your consciousness.
27:34It's not that
27:36consciousness needs to have power.
27:40You need to decide to devote
27:42power
27:44to the service of consciousness.
27:46What is power?
27:48Power is resources.
27:52You have all the resources at your disposal.
27:56You have this in life, you have that in life.
27:58You have money, you have muscle.
28:00You have knowledge.
28:04You have bombs.
28:08You decide what your
28:10money and your knowledge and your power is for.
28:14It could either be
28:16to uplift you or it could be to
28:18just
28:20dig you deeper into your health.
28:22The ones who choose
28:24to uplift that
28:26the thing is that they do not
28:28have that power.
28:30The ones who really want to degrade it
28:32have a lot of power
28:34that they can just press buttons
28:36and it can be used.
28:40That's a part of human existence.
28:44That's part of the
28:46story of the human condition.
28:50The part of you that will
28:52support consciousness
28:54would always be small.
28:56You could say it would always be
28:58a minority. The part of you
29:00that would be opposed
29:02to consciousness would always
29:04be stronger and
29:06constitute the majority.
29:08And if this is the condition within the
29:10human being, this is also
29:12the condition in the entire world.
29:14So you find that in the world
29:16the forces
29:18arranged against consciousness
29:20are stronger
29:24and the ones in favor of consciousness
29:26are weaker.
29:28So that's always
29:30going to be the condition because that's the condition
29:32inside the human being.
29:34That's the condition of the human body.
29:40Your habits
29:42generally
29:46defeat
29:48your wisdom, don't they?
29:50So that's the condition of the human body.
29:54And therefore that's the condition
29:56of the human world.
30:00So if my programming
30:02is against
30:04consciousness,
30:06maybe that's just the way it's supposed
30:08to be. So if my heart
30:10pumps blood in a certain way,
30:12that's just the way
30:14it is, right? I don't say, why is it
30:16doing that? Let's try and do it differently.
30:20That's the way it is.
30:22No quarreling with that.
30:24We know that's
30:26the way it is.
30:28That's the given condition.
30:30So that's the given condition that
30:32the forces
30:34for consciousness will always be weaker
30:36and less powerful.
30:40Is that just nature of
30:42Prakriti telling us that
30:44that's what should prevail?
30:46No, Prakriti is
30:48giving you these
30:50initial conditions to start with.
30:52Thereafter
30:54it is your game to play.
30:58You could use the same
31:00situation
31:02to describe it
31:04very differently. You could say
31:08the forces in
31:10favor of consciousness
31:12are inherently so powerful
31:14that they manage
31:16to make a game of it
31:18even if they are in a minority.
31:22Therefore, if you put them in a majority
31:24it would be no fun because
31:26the game would be over as soon
31:28as it begins.
31:30If you really want to have
31:32a fair
31:34game, you really
31:36want to have two evenly
31:38matched sides, then
31:40you need to make
31:42the side
31:44in favor of consciousness
31:46particularly weak.
31:48Otherwise, it will run
31:50away with the trophy.
31:56It's like what they call
31:58a handicap.
32:00Give them a fair handicap
32:02so that the other side can
32:04manage to
32:06make
32:08some kind of a contest.
32:10Otherwise, it would be a no brainer and a no contest.
32:14Therefore, you need
32:16100 Kaurav brothers
32:18against 5 Pandav brothers
32:20just to
32:22turn it into some kind of an even
32:24contest.
32:28Therefore,
32:30the armies of Ram
32:32need to be far weaker
32:34than the armies of
32:36Praval. Had they had
32:38comparable
32:40armies,
32:42the war would be over in a day.
32:48Goodness, probably by design,
32:50needs to begin
32:52with a handicap.
32:54Only then there is
32:56fun in the game.
32:58Otherwise, it's
33:00very quickly Satyamev Jayate.
33:04And the spectators
33:06would be disappointed.
33:08The game that was supposed to
33:10last 6 hours ended
33:12in 6 minutes. No value
33:14for money.
33:16So why is all this happening?
33:18Just so that we as spectators
33:20can get value for our money.
33:24Otherwise,
33:26everything returns to shunyata
33:28very soon.
33:30Maya is defeated.
33:32Everything is over.
33:34Finished.
33:36The absolute alone prevails.
33:38Truth alone is.
33:40Where is the fun now?
33:42So just that
33:44we all could have some
33:46fun.
33:48These 60
33:50or 80 years that we have,
33:52there is
33:54some thrill in it.
33:56This kind of
33:58a situation exists.
34:02Now, we can talk.
34:08What's the point in having
34:12a
34:14tiger against
34:16a hyena?
34:20So it has to be
34:2220 of the little things against one
34:24tiger.
34:26Now it's some fun.
34:30Somebody said
34:32all this exists
34:36to thicken the plot.
34:38I don't know
34:40who it was.
34:42The fellow asked
34:44why did God do all this?
34:46And he said to
34:48thicken the plot.
34:50Otherwise, there is no fun.
34:54It sounds like someone's having fun.
34:56It almost seems like someone's designed a video
34:58game where there are traps
35:00and special things to go after
35:02and catch. Why else
35:04do you think we call
35:06all video games as simulations?
35:08If they are simulations,
35:10doesn't it make
35:12sense to ask what
35:14they are simulating?
35:16They are simulating our inner world.
35:22Why else would you call it a simulation?
35:30So, we are trapped
35:32in a game.
35:34We play games.
35:36We are
35:38the weaker side, we are the stronger
35:40side and we are also the spectators.
35:42And just so that the spectator
35:44can have fun,
35:46one side has to be purposefully
35:48kept weaker.
35:52And when does the game end?
35:54When you are tired
35:56of being engaged
35:58as a spectator.
36:00That's when you become detached and the game is over.
36:02Because
36:06then you just don't want to
36:08have the fun or the pleasure of watching.
36:10And when you don't
36:12want to have
36:14the fun of watching,
36:16then what do you do? You declare a winner.
36:18And who's
36:20to be declared the winner?
36:22The winner was always certain.
36:24It's just that
36:26he wanted to delay his victory
36:28so that he can continue to enjoy
36:30his struggles
36:32and his suffering.
36:34When you are
36:36tired of watching, then you say, fine, the game
36:38is over. Come on, both of you.
36:40Here, this one is the winner.
36:42Game up.
36:46So, does declaring
36:48someone a winner mean
36:50that you are giving up?
36:52Yeah, you are giving up on yourself.
36:54You are giving up
36:56on yourself and you are declaring truth
36:58to be the winner.
37:00Are you not
37:02mentioning that to be able to
37:04bring change in the world,
37:06around 0.1%
37:08which will be
37:10to have that power.
37:12They hold the power.
37:16And also you mentioned that
37:18it's about creating
37:20those 0.1%
37:22instead of finding.
37:24It seems like it's a never-ending process
37:26because every child that is born
37:28the child is
37:30born with the universe
37:32within himself.
37:34And therefore,
37:36the spectator,
37:38the weaker side, the stronger side,
37:40all these are born
37:42with every new kid that takes birth.
37:46It's a never-ending thing.
37:48However, it can end for you.
37:50And that's what you should be concerned about.
37:52Right?
37:54You cannot
37:56have too much
37:58influence
38:00on the life
38:02of the next kid
38:04that's going to be born.
38:06He too has his rights.
38:08Let him decide what he wants
38:10to do with the
38:12spectator, with that party,
38:14with this party.
38:16Let him
38:18play his own
38:20course.
38:24It's not very
38:26encouraging
38:28for someone who really wants to
38:30bring that
38:32change in the world
38:34in that respect.
38:36The thing of encouragement
38:38is not that ultimately you
38:40will be successful
38:42in bringing about a permanent change.
38:44The thing
38:46of encouragement is that you have
38:48something nice to do with
38:50these 30-40 years
38:52you have been burdened with.
38:54Otherwise, you will die of boredom.
38:56Otherwise, the only entertainment
38:58you can have is producing more kids.
39:00It's a higher entertainment.
39:02Play the game.
39:04Play the game to the hilt.
39:06Right?
39:08Watch it, enjoy it
39:10as much as you can,
39:12and then declare the right
39:14party as the winner and
39:16joyfully retire.
39:18Some people call that enlightenment.
39:28So the game keeps going on.
39:30For the ones
39:32who are interested in the game,
39:34Vedanta
39:36never
39:38speaks anything purely in objective
39:40sense.
39:42So when you say the game keeps
39:44on,
39:46it immediately asks for whom?
39:48For whom? For the ones who are still
39:50interested.
39:52For the ones who still want to take a few
39:54more births.
39:58The game would continue to go on.
40:02However, it can
40:04end for you.
40:06But why should it end too soon for you?
40:08Have fun.
40:10Have fun till you are sick of the fun.
40:14And that's the thing with
40:16observing your fun
40:18and getting close to it.
40:22If you don't get close to your pleasures,
40:24you'll never be sick and tired of them.
40:26It's only when you
40:28observe your pleasures carefully.
40:30That's when you say light,
40:32curtains, curtains,
40:34enough.
40:36It's a horrid drama.
40:38Curtains.
40:40I guess
40:42how is one supposed
40:44to know that you even have a choice
40:46to play the game,
40:48who the parties are to play when this
40:50isn't taught very broadly.
40:52But you are playing it all the time,
40:54Daniel. Are you not?
40:56But I didn't know I was playing it.
40:58That's the thing about being
41:00a drunk spectator.
41:04We all are playing the game
41:06all the time. Are we not?
41:08We think
41:10that we are watching.
41:12But the fact is, we are
41:14the ones creating
41:16what we are watching.
41:18The game is rigged
41:20and it's rigged by the spectator of the game.
41:22The spectator is deciding
41:24which side would win.
41:28And the spectator has a stake
41:30in one side or the other.
41:34But one thing is certain, whichever side you have a stake in,
41:36you want
41:38the game
41:40to be prolonged.
41:46A point comes when you
41:48realize that
41:50it's no more fun.
41:56It's no more fun.
42:00Something higher is possible.
42:02And that
42:04love that
42:06takes you
42:08in its arms
42:10and then you can
42:14happily sleep.