Video Information: Delhi University, 15.01.2022, Rishikesh, India
Context:
~ What work to choose in life?
~ Should one seek social validation while choosing work?
~ How important is money while choosing work?
~ Why do we often underestimate the circumstances?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant #DU
Context:
~ What work to choose in life?
~ Should one seek social validation while choosing work?
~ How important is money while choosing work?
~ Why do we often underestimate the circumstances?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#acharyaprashant #DU
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00:00I'm Shashank Kashyap from Atmaram Sanatan Dharam College, University of Delhi.
00:14And my question is, I have like a vision about I'm more inclined towards research and entrepreneurship
00:21like stuff.
00:22But whenever I discuss with people, they usually tell me that you first seek for a job and
00:29get the job, get some money and after that you can go for these things because these
00:32are the things that involve risk.
00:35So in your video, I have seen that you're telling that one needs clarity in life.
00:41So living in between these people who have a hard mentality following what rest of the
00:48people are doing.
00:49So in between these people, how to get that clarity in life?
00:58See clarity in the inner sense is attained by observing fog and haze.
01:10All that obfuscates your clarity is to be known.
01:15This is the process of attaining clarity.
01:19So if these people are around you, first of all, see they are around you there because
01:23they are within you.
01:26Otherwise they couldn't have been around you.
01:30People who discourage you or people who want you to be risk averse, people who want you
01:37to avoid obstacles and go for a pleasure filled and easy comfortable life, if they surround
01:46you from outside, it is because they occupy you from within.
01:51And they have to be observed because observing them is in some way self-observation.
01:57When you observe these people outside of you, you are observing your face in their faces.
02:04Listen to their arguments, their arguments are your own arguments against yourself.
02:11Their arguments couldn't have affected you had they not resonated with something inside
02:16of you.
02:20So listen to what they are saying, see where they are coming from, see how their lives
02:23are and then ask yourself, is that where I want to spend my life?
02:29Is that how I want to live?
02:32Because their arguments aren't in a vacuum.
02:35Everything is connected to everything else.
02:37The way for example their personal life is, is very much related to how their professional
02:43choices are.
02:46The way their eyes look, the way their faces look, the kind of political opinions that
02:51they hold, they are all integrated and they are coming from the same center.
02:59You want to live that way, it's a choice you have to make.
03:05And remember it's a very important choice because something within you definitely wants
03:09to live that way.
03:11Something within you definitely wants to emulate them.
03:16You must know what you are going to get into if you emulate.
03:20They are all following a pattern, they are all part of a certain crowd.
03:25You must know where that pattern is coming from.
03:28You must know whose desires they are fulfilling.
03:33You must ask what is the purpose of such a life and you must ask whether life must have
03:39a purpose at all.
03:41Then you must ask what does it feel like to live without a purpose.
03:50And sir, how to counter their arguments?
03:54Their arguments are not their arguments.
03:56Had their arguments just been their own, you wouldn't have needed to counter them.
04:00What is the need to counter their arguments, first of all, please tell me.
04:05It seems you want to borrow a phrase or argument from me so that you can use it as ammunition
04:11against them.
04:12But first of all, why is there a need to counter them at all?
04:16Let them say what they want to say.
04:20So because sometimes I feel that if I'm surrounded by such kind of people, then somewhere my
04:25mentality is getting contaminated by their thoughts.
04:28But why are you surrounded by such people?
04:32Because everyone is like that, only everyone wants to live without a purpose.
04:37Not everyone is like that.
04:39Everyone around you is probably like that.
04:42Now that's the question you need to answer.
04:45Why have you in particular surrounded yourself with such people?
04:51That's what I'm saying, Shashank, something within you is very comfortable with what they
04:58are saying.
05:00Something within you resonates and rhymes with their opinions.
05:05They are representing your own face to you.
05:10That's why they have such power over you, else you would have just dismissed them with
05:16indifference.
05:17Right now, you find it difficult to be indifferent to their opinions, because they are reaching
05:25out to their ally within you.
05:33Something within you is allying with them very intimately and that's a bigger problem.
05:41People outside of you can change.
05:44Maybe you go some other place and you will find a different set of people, at least physically.
05:51But how will you get rid of that same person within you?
05:57And if that same person within you remains the way it is, it will again find and attract
06:03its own buddies, its own type.
06:07And you will say, oh, but you know, such people are everywhere, they are not everywhere.
06:12They come to places where they have a conducive environment.
06:21They speak to people who lend their ears to them.
06:27Why are you so open to them?
06:31Are flies found at all places?
06:33Tell me.
06:34No, sir.
06:35Where are they found?
06:36Where there is a dirt.
06:39Exactly.
06:40Name the dirt.
06:41Like dung or like a garbage or gutter.
06:48Right.
06:49Right.
06:51So, sir, how to counter that like inner part of that consciousness and lift up the consciousness
06:58so that those people can go away?
07:01Those who wanted to help you made themselves available in various ways so that you may
07:09have their company, so that you are not forced to dwell in bad company, so that freedom means
07:18more to you than security.
07:22Why not be with them?
07:24They left their books behind.
07:27Why else did they write books?
07:30They were not suckers for popularity or respect.
07:40They had gone far beyond that.
07:43They left their words behind so that you may find good company in them.
07:54And this is the age of technology, not only books, you also have various other forms and
08:00media.
08:01You have audios, you have videos, you have many other things.
08:07So be with them, be with them.
08:10As you find your internal world changing, you will find you need to associate with the
08:20cowardly kind of people is reducing.
08:27Only your reverence for the right kind of people will increase.
08:33These two go in tandem.