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Video Information: 03.09.2024, BITS Pilani, Goa
Context:
~ Before you rebel against others, rebel against yourself first.
~ Do we truly understand the meaning of words like life, education, money, career, and love?
~ How are others affecting us and our decisions?
~ What is life itself, and how do I define it?
~ Do we truly understand what 'I' and 'me' mean?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 03.09.2024, BITS Pilani, Goa
Context:
~ Before you rebel against others, rebel against yourself first.
~ Do we truly understand the meaning of words like life, education, money, career, and love?
~ How are others affecting us and our decisions?
~ What is life itself, and how do I define it?
~ Do we truly understand what 'I' and 'me' mean?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Good evening sir, my name is Yashashree Divedi, I am currently pursuing chemical engineering.
00:07My question is, till what level it's fair to say it's my life, my rules and not going
00:12by social and generational norms to meet family's expectations?
00:18You can say that till the final level, you can say that even in an absolute sense, provided
00:28it's you who is authentically saying that, often the rebellion we raise against the society
00:38is itself a social thing.
00:44Often the rebellion we pose to a society is itself very social and has social objectives.
00:53It's like this, oh this is the society, this is the society, right?
01:00The 100 out of you, you are the society and I am the rebel, I am the great rebel.
01:05So I rebel against you and I say you know all of you have been stupid from Newton till
01:11Einstein, all of you have been stupid, you know nothing.
01:18From Socrates till Sartre, all of you have been stupid, you know nothing and I am the
01:22only original one, I am the only genuine one, I am the young rebel and so I declare
01:31that I am not one of you and I am a renegade and I move over to this side here.
01:38I am not one of you and what do I do here?
01:46No not just hide, I have one eye on the common phenomena, you know this, right?
01:58We all do this.
01:59I am not one of you, I am boycotting you, what am I doing?
02:11I am seeing who is impressed, I am seeing who is impressed and if someone is impressed,
02:20I would probably, you know, just partially beckon from here, oh that one is impressed.
02:28Come, come, join my kingdom.
02:34It's not that I am rebelling against the society.
02:41I am so much a fan of the society actually, that I want to create one more society with
02:48myself at the center, with me as the king.
02:53Have you not seen this happen?
02:57It's called the corner rebel.
03:00He rebels, he goes into a corner and sets up his shop there and then he can attract
03:06a few people there and you know the corner shop.
03:09From there came the word corner.
03:12In all these shops, don't you find corner written?
03:15It's because corner shops work a lot, stationery corner, whatever.
03:32Authentic rebellion can happen only when first of all you know two things, one, what are
03:39you rebelling against and who is the one rebelling?
03:43We know neither of these.
03:46Then what is this rebellion?
03:47It's a sham.
03:48It's not a rebellion against the society.
03:54It's a, it's very much a social phenomena.
03:58It is within the society.
04:06The one who disparages society the most becomes socially popular.
04:12Does that happen or not?
04:15The angry young man used to say, two hoots to this world, tumhari hai tumhi sambhalo
04:25ye duniya.
04:28And then he finds that the world is carrying him on its shoulders.
04:38He looked like a world renouncer and suddenly he is a favorite of the world.
04:54My life, my rules, whose life, whose rules?
04:59Even this phrase, my life, my rules is not coming from your own life.
05:07Even this rule that if it's my life, it has to be my rules, even this rule is not your
05:13own.
05:14So, you are being ruled by someone else when you say my rules.
05:19Even in saying my rules, it is somebody else's rules that you are following.
05:25Did you coin this phrase?
05:26My life, my rules?
05:27You are still a slave, a slave by another name, a slave by another name.
05:37There are slaves who say, my life, somebody else's rules and there are slaves who say,
05:43my life, my rules.
05:46They are both equal slaves because neither of them has any originality.
05:58Immature rebellion takes you nowhere.
06:04Those of you who are fond of rebelling must pay heed.
06:10Rebel against yourself first.
06:16Before you rebel against others, rebel against yourself.
06:22The others are not so much outside.
06:27The others are all inside of you.
06:31Your very sense of self is founded on others.
06:36So, if you want to rebel against others, rebel simply against yourself.
06:45The usual framework is I versus the others, no.
06:52The real thing is that this I is a function of others.
06:56The others do not stand outside of you.
07:00The others all are seated inside of you.
07:05If you want to rebel against others, rebel against yourself.
07:09It's not about my life, my rules.
07:18It's about asking, is my life mine at all?
07:24What is life itself?
07:25How do I define life?
07:26Do I know what is I, me, life?
07:32What are these words?
07:35Just yesterday I said fooled by familiarity.
07:38We are so familiar with these words that we think that we know what they mean.
07:46But familiarity does not necessarily imply understanding.
07:51You are familiar with the word life, education, money, career, love.
07:57We are very familiar.
07:58We use these words 40 times a day.
07:59So, we are extremely familiarized.
08:02But we don't know what they mean.
08:10Try to see that you do not know what they mean.
08:12I am not asking you to learn their real meaning.
08:19I am asking you to first of all clearly, honestly acknowledge that you do not know what is
08:26meant even by these basic words, the building blocks of existing itself.
08:42Around 15 years back when I used to actively teach, this was one of my favorite exercises.
08:52I would ask my students to write down the 15 words they most commonly, most frequently
08:59use in their everyday conversations and they would write down these words.
09:05Then I would say, now honestly check whether you know what these words mean and how horrible
09:12it is that it's not unknown words we do not know of.
09:19It's the very known words that we know nothing of.
09:25If you do not know the unknown, that's all right, the unknown is the unknown.
09:29It's not supposed to be already known.
09:33But what if something is being used, practiced 50 times a day and is still unknown?
09:42Is that not horrible?
09:43Yeah, that's our life.
09:44That's our life.
09:53But that can be very smoothly taken care of, especially when you are young, especially
10:02when you have time.
10:05I wish when I was your age, somebody came to me in a meeting like this and addressed
10:16me this way, yours is the age when you are just opening up to life.
10:30This is when you should and you can be the most vigilant, the most outgoing, risk-taking,
10:45adventurous and honest.
10:50Yes, they are constantly reminding me to not to come to the edge.
10:59It's interfering with the recording or the audio, it seems.
11:03I am being told to come here.
11:05This is where the limelight is.
11:10You know why I am coming to this place?
11:12Typically, I don't stand and talk.
11:16Mostly it's in a seating posture these days.
11:19But when it comes to interacting with students, I prefer to stand.
11:22This is how it used to be for several years, from 2006 till around 2011-12.
11:33I want to be close when it comes to students.
11:37That's why I am standing right at the edge.
11:40They are telling me to retreat, not only here.
11:44If this proceeds for long enough, I'll jump over, which actually used to happen.
11:51If you dig out the old videos, that's what you'll find there.
11:55Go there and then not only be here, there, there, there, into, yeah, anyway.