Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 15.06.2019, Advait BodhSthal, Greater Noida, India
Description:
In this compelling session, Acharya Ji delves into the complexities of modern youth, revealing the stark contrast between their outward confidence and inner turmoil. He emphasizes that the pressures and expectations placed on young adults often overlook their natural instincts and developmental stage. Rather than viewing their behavior as flawed, Acharya Ji encourages a deeper understanding of their primal drives for comfort, security, and connection. He challenges societal ideals that demand premature wisdom and enlightenment, advocating for a more compassionate approach that recognizes youth as a natural phase of life. Ultimately, he calls for honest dialogue and mentorship to help guide the next generation toward genuine growth and self-awareness.
Context:
~ What does today's youth lack to become like SwamiJii?
~ Does today's youth even have what it takes to be like Swami Vivekanand?
~ How to become like Swami Vivekananda?
~ Why are you lost in their inner world?
~ Why is there anger and frustration in youth?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant #swamivivekananda
Description:
In this compelling session, Acharya Ji delves into the complexities of modern youth, revealing the stark contrast between their outward confidence and inner turmoil. He emphasizes that the pressures and expectations placed on young adults often overlook their natural instincts and developmental stage. Rather than viewing their behavior as flawed, Acharya Ji encourages a deeper understanding of their primal drives for comfort, security, and connection. He challenges societal ideals that demand premature wisdom and enlightenment, advocating for a more compassionate approach that recognizes youth as a natural phase of life. Ultimately, he calls for honest dialogue and mentorship to help guide the next generation toward genuine growth and self-awareness.
Context:
~ What does today's youth lack to become like SwamiJii?
~ Does today's youth even have what it takes to be like Swami Vivekanand?
~ How to become like Swami Vivekananda?
~ Why are you lost in their inner world?
~ Why is there anger and frustration in youth?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#acharyaprashant #swamivivekananda
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00:00:00Our young adults seem to be full of confidence in the way they speak, dress, look and act.
00:00:18But when I look into their eyes, there is a lot of fear, insecurity and sometimes indifference
00:00:24reflecting back.
00:00:26Obviously, the outer facade is just a cover up.
00:00:31Being a mother of two young adults aged 22 and 19, I sense this with my own kids at times.
00:00:39I feel overwhelmed imagining what their future will be like.
00:00:45Today I see my kids and their peers mostly holed up in their rooms staring at a computer
00:00:51screen for hours at end.
00:00:54They seem to be uninterested in what is happening outside.
00:01:00They are lost in their own inner worlds, perhaps because we as parents have failed to provide
00:01:05them with something meaningful.
00:01:08Recently a good friend's son was arrested for assaulting a cop on duty when he was stopped
00:01:14at a Nakabandi and asked to produce his papers.
00:01:22Acharya ji, I sense this pent up frustration and anger amongst our young adults.
00:01:33I feel a sense of helplessness because I too am frustrated at the current state of affairs.
00:01:42I can only imagine what they must be going through.
00:01:46Acharya ji, please can you talk a bit on our youth and how best to guide them.
00:01:52Devon, gratitude.
00:01:53Anusha.
00:01:54Anusha, are you surprised when you look at a six-month-old or three-year-old or six-year-old
00:02:16and you find him eager for his food, comfort, security, entertainment,
00:02:43oblivious of all other worldly or otherworldly concerns, do you pry out why is this three-year-old
00:03:11lost in his little self and little world, why is he not eager for liberation?
00:03:24How many three-year-olds have you found longing for liberation?
00:03:35Have you found it?
00:03:46Not only do you not accuse the kid or the boy of not being enough of a seeker.
00:04:10You in fact find his ignorance towards everything but his own comfort as cute, don't you?
00:04:38It is a norm and it is a very acceptable norm with us, is it not?
00:04:49Three-year-olds will be three-year-olds.
00:04:57Similarly, do you feel worried?
00:05:07When you look at an animal busy doing what animals do, does that look apocalyptic to you?
00:05:28Do you say the end of the world is surely near because the deer has no interest in the scriptures?
00:05:48Deers do what deers are supposed to do.
00:05:57Three-year-old human kids do what three-year-olds are supposed to do.
00:06:05But when it comes to young members of the species Homo sapiens, then we somehow have
00:06:21very romantic expectations.
00:06:27We mean to say that if a human being is young, he should naturally be full of light, eagerness to learn.
00:06:53Let's look at what all you expect from them.
00:07:03Fearlessness, interest in the affairs of world, humility, meaning and purpose in life.
00:07:22I'm asking you from where is this idealism coming?
00:07:29Why do you expect these things from young human beings in the first place?
00:07:39You have quoted Swami Vivekananda as saying,
00:07:45the minds of our modern youths are like storehouses of multiple complexes,
00:07:49such as sex complex, fear complex, ego complex, inferiority complex.
00:07:57Hidden in your eagerness is an image, an ideal.
00:08:08And all ideals spring from an obliviousness to the fact.
00:08:25Very ideally, you are assuming and desiring that a young person should be free of the
00:08:53complexes and compulsions of sex, fear, ego and comparison.
00:08:59Why must it be like that?
00:09:04What entitles you to think and demand that just by virtue of having attained a certain age,
00:09:16a human being should be free of sex, fear, ego, inferiority and many many other bad things.
00:09:34You look at a Swami Vivekananda and then you want the others to be like that.
00:09:41But a Swami Vivekananda is not normal. He is an aberration. He is a great exception.
00:09:53Just by looking at him, if you start assuming that all young human beings,
00:10:06by default, should be like him, then you are missing the fact of what it means to be a human being.
00:10:19Look at the life cycle of the ordinary human being.
00:10:28We say he is designed to live till 100.
00:10:38When does he begin to procreate? At 12, 14.
00:10:49It is under the influence of civilization that you push him to delay his reproductive activity.
00:11:03Otherwise, when it comes to Prakriti, physical nature, she prepares him or her and pushes him to indulge in the sexual and reproductive act
00:11:22even at the age of 10 or 12 or 14.
00:11:27Now that's quite interesting because the man is supposed to live till 100.
00:11:42But the sexual act does not start somewhere close to the midpoint.
00:11:51It does not start at 30 or 40 or 50.
00:11:54In fact, even before one reaches midway, the sexual act actually starts tapering off.
00:12:14If 100 is how long one is supposed to live, then by 50 the sexual zeal has mostly diminished.
00:12:34It is at its peak not when you are 40 or 50 or 60 but when you are just 15 or 20.
00:12:43What does it tell you about this so-called glorious period called youth?
00:12:51Has Prakriti prepared you for greatness?
00:12:57Greatness in the likes of Swami Vivekananda is a great exception.
00:13:07Prakriti does not prepare you for greatness.
00:13:12Prakriti prepares you for creation.
00:13:21All this great upsurge of energy that you see in youth is not meant to break their chains or raise a fire that would unfetter them.
00:13:38All this great energy that we so fondly talk of in youth is actually aimed at just
00:14:00furtherance of the Prakritic motives.
00:14:11So, first of all, let's keep our expectations in check.
00:14:18First of all, let's not unduly assume that youth is the golden period of one's life.
00:14:30First of all, let's not assume without fact or reason.
00:14:42Young is to be desirous of freedom.
00:14:52It is not so.
00:14:55And therefore, what you are seeing in today's youth is just normal.
00:15:15In worldly language, natural.
00:15:26The boy has reached 20.
00:15:30What is he supposed to do?
00:15:37Look at the massive universe and wonder about its secrets.
00:15:59Think about how insignificant he is in the greater order of things.
00:16:12Look at the birds and the bees and say, oh, all this is but Maya.
00:16:23Do you see that in animals?
00:16:26Do you see that in kids?
00:16:32Then why do you expect that the youth would magically turn into great lovers of truth and freedom?
00:16:52You are saying, oh, the youth are so full of sex, fear, ego and inferiority.
00:17:03Do you equally lament it when you see that the kids and the old ones are full of sex,
00:17:12ego, fear and inferiority or superiority?
00:17:17No, you don't lament it then.
00:17:21I have not heard anybody come and say, you know, sir, all the octogenarians and the nanogenarians,
00:17:34they are so full of ego.
00:17:38They don't have the desire or energy for liberation.
00:17:44Neither have I heard somebody come to me and say, my Pintu is now six years old.
00:17:51But he has no yearning for God.
00:17:55But then it becomes quite strange.
00:17:59The fellow has no feeling for freedom when he is six.
00:18:05And you don't find it odd.
00:18:11The fellow has no feeling for freedom when he is 60.
00:18:15That too you don't find odd.
00:18:19But when the fellow is 25, then you expect that somehow magically,
00:18:26just like Swami Vivekananda, he too will turn into an ideal seeker,
00:18:36renouncing everything, sacrificing everything for the sake of inner joy.
00:18:44Why would he do that?
00:18:49What is it about attaining a certain age in life that makes you think
00:18:58that one would be full of zeal and energy and compassion and great love for the truth?
00:19:10Nothing.
00:19:13The Mishra six is 16, 16 is 26, 26 is 46, 46 is 86.
00:19:20Nothing changes.
00:19:23When you are six, you behave as your DNA dictates you to behave at six.
00:19:31When you are 26, you behave just as your DNA dictates you to behave at 26.
00:19:38And when you are 66, you behave just as your DNA dictates you to behave at 66.
00:19:47We are just another species of animals.
00:19:51Why do you forget that?
00:19:54Just because in between, once in a few centuries,
00:20:04you get somebody like Swami Vivekananda who seems to defy the prakritic order.
00:20:13We start thinking too big of ourselves.
00:20:20We disrespect and undervalue Vivekananda so much
00:20:25that we feel that what he did was fairly normal, easy and common.
00:20:33We want that to be the norm.
00:20:36We say, oh, if he could do it, why are the other youth not found doing it?
00:20:41And when they are not found doing it, then we regret and lament and complain.
00:20:47Do you see that it is based on an underestimation
00:20:53of what it means really to be a Swami Vivekananda?
00:20:58If we could really see that he was an heterogeneous,
00:21:04an unthinkable aberration,
00:21:17an Everest in a landscape crowded at best with plateaus,
00:21:40then we would not demand that every normal youth be free of fear and lust
00:22:01and ego and self-centeredness.
00:22:11We compare ourselves to the ideal that is Vivekananda
00:22:15and when we find ourselves short, then we say, oh, the times are so bad.
00:22:22We are not even Vivekananda.
00:22:26You know, it really is Kali Yuga.
00:22:38I'm not able to match even Vivekananda.
00:22:42Excuse me, what did you just say?
00:22:49It suits a Vivekananda to be free of lust and fear and ego.
00:22:55Others will be others.
00:22:58Why do you expect them to be abnormal, if not paranormal?
00:23:08They're not supposed to be.
00:23:11In fact, if they act as if they are Vivekananda,
00:23:17then they will be putting up a facade as most youth do.
00:23:29Now they are stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.
00:23:35If they are being themselves, which is if they are following their animal instincts,
00:23:40then you say, oh, you are unnecessarily putting up a facade.
00:23:45As you have mentioned in your question.
00:23:53Is it not so?
00:23:55Let's think over it.
00:23:57That if they try to act spiritual, then they are really putting up a facade.
00:24:15I know what I'm saying.
00:24:19It's not idealistic.
00:24:21Most people will not find it uplifting or motivating.
00:24:27But then I find facts more valuable than any kind of motivational fiction.
00:24:49You're saying youth has pent up frustration and anger.
00:24:59And there is no dearth of literature and opinion that suggests that youth is angry and frustrated
00:25:17because there is no freedom in the world.
00:25:23Is that really so?
00:25:26Is the youth really clamoring for freedom?
00:25:33Ask them, why are you frustrated?
00:25:35How many of them would really say we want to be free of our ego?
00:25:41And that is why we are frustrated.
00:25:43What is it that makes them frustrated?
00:25:45If you want to know that, see what is it that would quell their frustration or calm them down.
00:25:57Offer them money.
00:26:00Offer them sex.
00:26:03Offer them some weed.
00:26:05Offer them comfort.
00:26:07And all the frustration and anger is gone.
00:26:10It's not so.
00:26:13Is it real of you, Nimisha, to think that the youth are frustrated and angry
00:26:19because they are not getting enlightenment?
00:26:23Seriously?
00:26:25I'm again asking you.
00:26:29At 8, he didn't want enlightenment.
00:26:33Even at 48, you'll not find him wanting enlightenment.
00:26:37What makes you think that at 28, he should be full of urge to seek enlightenment?
00:26:43He does not seek it.
00:26:46He is not designed to seek it.
00:26:58Look at man's configuration.
00:27:01What makes you think that a kid is born to be a Swami Vivekananda?
00:27:12What makes you think that a woman is born to be one of the greats?
00:27:21A Meera or a Mari?
00:27:24Neither Meera Bai nor Mari Curie.
00:27:32It's an imposition upon her if you constantly push her the Meera or Mari way.
00:27:43She starts menstruating at 12.
00:27:46Now what is Meera and what is Mari?
00:27:53The boy starts masturbating at 14.
00:27:56What Swami Vivekananda?
00:27:59And often you don't even have to teach him to masturbate.
00:28:03It comes to him in your language naturally.
00:28:12You don't have to teach it to him.
00:28:14Even if he's been living in a cave, he would learn to explore his body.
00:28:28Why bring Swami Vivekananda into all this?
00:28:35He was a distant star.
00:28:47Let us continuously and steadfastly remember who we are.
00:29:00Otherwise we start thinking too much of ourselves.
00:29:06Otherwise we start feeling as if enlightenment is a birthright.
00:29:13And seeking enlightenment is a fundamental duty.
00:29:20Neither is enlightenment a birthright nor is a human being obliged in any way to seek freedom or liberation.
00:29:30Human beings are designed to eat, sleep, have sex and die.
00:29:55If you expect anything beyond this from them, that is when they will get frustrated.
00:30:02And they will rebel.
00:30:14You know of the rebellious youth movement of the 60s and 70s.
00:30:21The counterculture.
00:30:23You know of the hippies.
00:30:27I do not know how many of them were getting God.
00:30:31But what is certain is that most of them, probably all of them were getting good sex.
00:30:37That's what the youthful rebellious energy is all about.
00:30:45How many hippies got God?
00:30:50How many of them got good sex?
00:31:07Rare, utterly rare is a human being of any age
00:31:19who is magically implored from within to chart a totally different way.
00:31:36It has always been and would always remain a sensational exception.
00:31:50The others will continue to do what they are designed to do.
00:32:00And to you Nimisha, if you expect otherwise from them,
00:32:14it's almost like crying in despair
00:32:23when you don't find a donkey reciting the Gayatri Mantra.
00:32:31Oh, it's a young donkey you see.
00:32:34And you have expectations.
00:32:35You feel that a young person must be full of reverence for the scriptures.
00:32:43Why do you forget that?
00:32:52Youth is just another period of the life cycle.
00:33:08Prakriti invests in you that tremendous energy at that time
00:33:17so that you can produce babies.
00:33:20And that's what your principal concern will be.
00:33:23I want babies.
00:33:26Have you ever wondered why old people don't procreate?
00:33:31Rather can't procreate because they don't have enough energy.
00:33:35And Prakriti says,
00:33:38drinking up a baby, raising a kid requires a lot of physical energy.
00:33:45So, it is not a coincidence that you exhibit the peak of your reproductive activity,
00:33:53sexual activity, when it is coinciding with the peak of your energy levels.
00:34:00Don't you see the coincidence?
00:34:04The peak of your energy levels coincide with the peak of your sexual activity.
00:34:14So, what has Prakriti given you all this energy for?
00:34:20Isn't it obvious?
00:34:23Prakriti has given you all this energy
00:34:28so that you can chase men and women.
00:34:35This energy has not been given to you so that you can climb up the Himalayas and meditate there.
00:34:41This energy has been given to you so that you can run after the woman,
00:34:45pick her up, please her five times a day.
00:34:55When you look at Swami Vivekananda, you feel the energy is there
00:35:00so that the fellow can crisscross the country on feet,
00:35:04raise awareness among the masses,
00:35:07exhort them towards freedom.
00:35:11Look at the chimps, our cousins,
00:35:14and you will realize what all this energy is for.
00:35:18What does a chimpanzee use his youthful energy for?
00:35:22He uses that energy to beat down the other male chimpanzees
00:35:30and secure the most fertile females among the lot.
00:35:36That's why we have all this energy.
00:35:41Let's lower the expectations a little.
00:35:50In fact, by the time you cross 50, don't you see that your sexual urge diminishes?
00:35:56Even Prakriti knows
00:36:00that by the time you gain a little sense
00:36:08owing to your life experiences,
00:36:11you would probably not be so deeply interested
00:36:18in the mating game.
00:36:20So Prakriti says, before you gain any wisdom, any sense, any experience,
00:36:27it is important
00:36:32that you do what I command to do.
00:36:36That work should be given the top priority
00:36:39and must get finished off as quickly as possible.
00:36:47So you become sexually eager just as you cross your childhood.
00:36:54Prakriti does not want to wait even a day after that.
00:37:00The day you are not a child, you are immediately sexually eager.
00:37:06Prakriti says, first things first.
00:37:09Your freedom, your wisdom, your liberation, all can wait.
00:37:18This thing must take the first priority.
00:37:22Now what has happened is, civilization has blocked that.
00:37:33So we have passed laws that say,
00:37:37the girl has to be 18, the boy has to be 21
00:37:44and if she is below 16, then it becomes an even more heinous offense.
00:37:51And the social structure is such that you say,
00:37:57when 18 and 21 are no good,
00:38:01you must first of all earn, have a career, be economically secure.
00:38:07So 21 gets pushed to 25 or 28 and so there is frustration.
00:38:17Nothing else.
00:38:33When I was in class 12, we had this novel.
00:38:47Lord of the Flies.
00:38:55And at that time I had wondered, rather resented,
00:38:58why this kind of a novel is being taught to impressionable students.
00:39:07We were just 16 or 17.
00:39:10Those who are from the ISC board might know,
00:39:14Lord of the Flies, William Golding.
00:39:18No, I forget that there is a generation gap.
00:39:22ISC is not what ISC used to be.
00:39:28You have read that one?
00:39:30Yes.
00:39:33Yes.
00:39:35So, what was it about?
00:39:40It's the Second World War and a group of school kids from Britain.
00:39:51They lose their way while on a flight.
00:39:55They are probably being taken to a secure location,
00:39:58given that the war is raging.
00:40:02But somehow the plane loses its way.
00:40:07It lands on a desolate island,
00:40:13bereft of any trace of any civilization.
00:40:18The pilot is dead.
00:40:23The pilot is dead and the kids are on their own.
00:40:25And the kids vary from five-year-olds to probably 15-year-olds.
00:40:35And the entire novel is about how the kids very, very quickly turn into beasts.
00:40:49And they are from a very prestigious school of one of the most developed nations on the earth.
00:41:05They actually don't turn into beasts.
00:41:07Man is a beast.
00:41:10It is under the transforming effect of civilization
00:41:20that man appears to be a little different from a chimpanzee or some other animal.
00:41:30Otherwise, that's what we are.
00:41:36Beasts.
00:41:39Why do you expect Nimisha that the young people would naturally be like
00:41:52the sannyasis of Swami Vivekananda?
00:41:55Why should they be that way?
00:41:57The climactic scene with which the novel is eponymous
00:42:10sees the kids slaughtering one of their own
00:42:18and putting up his severed head on a stick.
00:42:32And the flies on the island have all shrouded that head and the head is hardly visible.
00:42:42So, lord of the flies.
00:42:45And then there are a couple of more deaths, a couple of more murders rather.
00:42:52They almost turn into cannibals and all this within a matter of a few months.
00:43:00Our civilization is a facade.
00:43:03It doesn't take long for the veneer to come off.
00:43:14Remove fear, remove police and remove the incentives towards civilized behavior.
00:43:31And very soon you will see how much of Swami Vivekananda is there in today's youth.
00:43:44Later on, I felt grateful that the novel was a part of the syllabus.
00:44:02Far better to know the facts than to wallow in ideals.
00:44:15The serious, austere, simple, energetic, fearless, truth-loving young man is an idea.
00:44:37He really does not exist.
00:44:53He has to be brought into existence by someone
00:45:07who is exactly that which needs to be brought into existence.
00:45:14Before we talk of Swami Vivekananda Mishra, let's talk of Ramakrishna Paramhans.
00:45:21There would have been no Swami Vivekananda had there been no Paramhans first of all.
00:45:27Swami Vivekananda don't drop off from the sky.
00:45:30They are raised, they are made, they are given birth not by their mothers
00:45:34but by somebody like Paramhans.
00:45:38Where is Paramhans?
00:45:43Swami Vivekananda was an ordinary man, Narendra and he too had his ordinary pursuits.
00:45:51It was the magical touch of Paramhans that turned him into Vivekananda.
00:46:05And he wasn't too eager either.
00:46:11Many a times he ran away from Ramakrishna.
00:46:15Sometimes in the name of family responsibilities, sometimes in the name of education,
00:46:34sometimes because he was just bored with this ordinary devotee of Dakshineshwar temple.
00:47:05It's a gigantic task.
00:47:08It doesn't just happen on its own.
00:47:20If you leave the youth to how they are, it is not liberation that would happen.
00:47:30Procreation would happen.
00:47:33On its own liberation never happens, procreation happens.
00:47:38That you don't have to teach.
00:47:47But we somehow have a feeling that liberation is cheap.
00:47:51It too should happen on its own.
00:47:53Why must it happen on its own?
00:47:56When we complain that our sons and daughters are not like Vivekananda and Nivedita,
00:48:09we must first ask ourselves, are we like Ramakrishna and Sharda?
00:48:18If we are not like Ramakrishna and Sharda, how will our sons and daughters be like Vivekananda and Nivedita?
00:48:26I repeat, fruits drop from trees.
00:48:37It is automatic, it is prakritic, it just happens.
00:48:44Man does not automatically get liberated.
00:48:50Man does not even have a conscious innate desire for liberation.
00:49:00It is not there.
00:49:01In fact, if somebody has it, it is unnatural.
00:49:05Unnatural in the prakritic sense.
00:49:08One is not supposed to have it.
00:49:10How will you have it?
00:49:13Even Vivekananda would not have it.
00:49:15Had it not been aroused in him by an external agency.
00:49:27Nobody can just have it.
00:49:29Except maybe let's say one in a million, one in a billion.
00:49:32We should not even talk of them.
00:49:37They are some kind of manufacturing problems.
00:49:45They are God's mistakes.
00:49:58They cannot be taken as the rule.
00:50:01They cannot be taken as ideals.
00:50:16Throughout his childhood, the fellow was interested in toys and sweets.
00:50:24When he would play with fellow kids, he would either be violent or afraid.
00:50:32And we would say, oh, this is for the course for kids.
00:50:39This is how kids are.
00:50:41Right?
00:50:44And when he turns 15, then we say, why is he not turning towards wisdom literature?
00:50:52Why must he turn towards wisdom literature?
00:50:59A six-month-old baby.
00:51:09You go close to him.
00:51:10You want to kiss his face.
00:51:11And what does he do?
00:51:15He extends his little fingers and clasps at your necklace.
00:51:26Then do you complain that the fellow is so materialistic?
00:51:30I wanted to kiss, but all he was looking at was my necklace.
00:51:35And you know that babies do exhibit exactly this kind of behavior.
00:51:42Right?
00:51:43Go close to them and they'll want to grab whatever they can.
00:51:49Not God, something material.
00:51:54If Arjun goes to them, they will…
00:51:59This is from experience.
00:52:05And the grip is firm.
00:52:11The fist won't open too easily.
00:52:18And when you try to force it open, then the kid would cry.
00:52:23Do you see the fellow has an inclination towards fisting right from that age?
00:52:40He wants to hold stuff here.
00:52:47And then you don't say, why is he not like Swami Vivekananda?
00:52:50Why does he not approach people with palms wide open?
00:52:56One denoting that I came with nothing, the other denoting I will go away with nothing.
00:53:02Then you don't say.
00:53:04Then you say, oh, he is but a baby.
00:53:06It is very natural that he is clasping at everything.
00:53:12Tomorrow he clasps at money, at security, at all these things that you are complaining against.
00:53:19Then why do you find it odd?
00:53:23Just as this fist was trying to clutch something.
00:53:33Similarly, at some other age, this same fist is used to clutch the genital.
00:53:42Don't you see it's the same stream?
00:53:45Why complain against it when it comes midway?
00:53:52Its very origin is in darkness.
00:53:59How do you expect it to magically transform all by itself?
00:54:07When it reaches the mid ranges, it won't.
00:54:15The clasping fist, is it not symbolic of babies across gender, nationality, religion?
00:54:39This is what you will find little kids always exhibiting.
00:55:10Instead of forcing an idealism upon them, it would be far better if we first of all have them realize
00:55:31that beneath the wheel of civilization, we are 100% apes and chimpanzees.
00:55:48And even this civilization is an attempt gone badly wrong.
00:56:05It was supposed to raise us from the jungle.
00:56:18Instead, it has been such a botched up attempt that it has repressed us.
00:56:31That which needed to be elevated could not be elevated.
00:56:38So, to hide the failure, it has been repressed.
00:56:42Are you getting it?
00:56:47And that has given rise to the dark and dirty subconscious mind,
00:57:07which is a storehouse of all kinds of frustrations and desires and pent up urges.
00:57:20If you will force kids to behave differently than their
00:57:47prakritic selves, their jungle selves, their chimpanzee selves,
00:57:56then they will do that with persuasiveness and punishment and incentive.
00:58:13You can succeed in getting the youth to behave in an ideal way.
00:58:20But I assure you, beneath that ideal behavior, an angry chimpanzee would still be lurking
00:58:33and the chimpanzee would now be very, very angry.
00:58:37Very, very angry.
00:58:39Why would he be angry?
00:58:41Because he is being made to act like Swami Vivekananda.
00:58:46Inside a chimpanzee and outside he has been forced to behave as a Swami.
00:58:55You see a lot of that in circus, don't you?
00:59:02The elephant is walking on two legs and shaking hands with kids.
00:59:07How do you think he's actually feeling?
00:59:11That's how our civilized youth are, especially spiritually civilized youth.
00:59:17The chimpanzee is speaking in French and reciting Sanskrit verses.
00:59:31Inside he's swearing he'll have a super go at you whenever he can get half a chance.
00:59:58There was this parrot who was being made to ride a bicycle, a little bicycle.
01:00:06How do you think the parrot is feeling?
01:00:14That's how the youth today are feeling.
01:00:26You want to elevate their consciousness, right?
01:00:30First of all, you must know what elevation really means.
01:00:34And you must know even before that, where do you want to elevate them from?
01:00:43It is a problem if you do not know where you want to go.
01:00:47It's a far more massive problem if you do not know where you are standing.
01:00:54You can be helped if you do not know where to go.
01:00:57You cannot be helped if you do not tell where you are standing.
01:01:01I need help. I need help. But where are you? That I do not know.
01:01:09First of all, tell the youth where they are really standing.
01:01:15Tell them that they are chimpanzees as we all are.
01:01:19It's not an insult. It's the fact of our physical existence.
01:01:25It's not a humiliation.
01:01:30Don't unnecessarily eulogize the human birth.
01:01:37Don't say that because you are born as a biped
01:01:47and your surname is Singh or Shukla or Johnson.
01:01:57So you are destined to do great things.
01:02:01Tell them that it doesn't matter that you are born human.
01:02:08The fact is you are an animal and you better know that.
01:02:13You better fully fully acknowledge that.
01:02:18All your natural instincts are towards physical security, continuation, procreation.
01:02:30That's what you continuously want and you should never never forget this.
01:02:37Teach this to the youngster. Teach this to the youngster even before he turns young.
01:02:44Let him know this when he is eight years of age.
01:02:54When he looks at the dog going after the bitch and asks,
01:02:57Mama, what's this? Tell him human birth.
01:03:05We all are born as a result of this and we are all born to do this.
01:03:13Man is a dog, woman is a bitch without exception.
01:03:19That's what this entire drama is about.
01:03:23And no amount of economic progress, technical sophistication,
01:03:29or civilizational advancement can hide that or should hide that.
01:03:37That's what man's basic energy is libido.
01:03:44You can give it fascinating names.
01:03:53Teach this to them.
01:03:56And when they encounter the fact of their savagery in all its bloodiness,
01:04:04then maybe a repulsion and inner repugnance would arise and that would be transformational.
01:04:13But there can be no transformation without an intimacy with the fact.
01:04:20If the fellow is thinking, as most of us do,
01:04:24that we are special just because we were born in a hospital and not in a jungle,
01:04:31then too bad for us.
01:04:44Man might find it humiliating.
01:04:56The ego finds it absolutely scurrilous that after centuries rather millennia
01:05:06of development and progress, one is still to be called an animal.
01:05:17But we must acknowledge it because that is the fact.
01:05:23And every kid must be taught this.
01:05:27Then there would be the one odd little Narendra who would say,
01:05:34I hear this, I know this to be true as a fact, but I don't like this.
01:05:42There's something in me that revolts against this.
01:05:47And then let him walk out of the classroom and discover a Paramhansa.
01:05:54And then there is some possibility of a real Vivekananda taking birth.
01:06:02You do not get them cheap Nimisha, please.
01:06:09It's almost like asking why aren't diamonds falling from the skies
01:06:15and complaining and crying hoarse.
01:06:19Oh, there was a hailstorm, there was a hailstorm.
01:06:22Why didn't I find precious stones in them?
01:06:26Why must you find precious stones in them? A hailstorm will give you.
01:06:32Water, frozen water.
01:06:37What makes you think that you will find diamonds amongst hills?
01:06:43How did you come to have this expectation?
01:06:47What makes you think that you will just find a Vivekananda amongst usual human beings?
01:06:59I bought five kgs of mangoes and now I'm weeping so badly.
01:07:04Why? Because none of the mangoes contained emeralds.
01:07:12I cut them all open. All I found was a normal seed.
01:07:19A big one.
01:07:29Mangoes will be mangoes.
01:07:34Chimpanzees will be chimpanzees.
01:07:41A human chimpanzee cannot just turn into a Vivekananda.
01:07:54Drop the expectation.
01:08:00Instead, teach him that he is a chimpanzee.
01:08:09Sounds brutal, but would be helpful.
01:08:13That's what he needs to hear and acknowledge.
01:08:17I am a chimpanzee.
01:08:22Don't just go about telling him, no, no, you are God personified.
01:08:27When God wants to visit Earth, then he takes birth as a kid.
01:08:33Stop all this nonsense.
01:08:37There are too many people who have actually hypnotized themselves into believing that
01:08:44they are the true self or silence or Atma or Brahman.
01:08:55Even chimpanzees are mocking him.
01:09:01Imagine one of them saying, I am Brahman.
01:09:11And then rushing towards the nearest fruit or the nearest female and constantly reciting,
01:09:23I am Brahman.
01:09:26Brahmanzi.
01:09:37That's a good name for most spiritual seekers,
01:09:41especially those who believe that they have attained Brahmalinta.
01:09:48Brahmanzi.
01:09:55Yes.
01:09:57Next time you find yourselves energetic, just ask yourselves,
01:10:05if this prakritic energy is arising in me,
01:10:09surely prakriti wants just one thing from me.
01:10:15Then you will be left aghast and very disappointed with yourself
01:10:20because you will find that behind all the reasons that you assign to yourself,
01:10:27ultimately there are just these few basic primeval things that you want.
01:10:43It would be shocking and it would be humiliating, but it would be real.
01:10:48Let's for a change give value to reality.
01:10:58Look at your likes, dislikes, urges.
01:11:09If this session were happening in a forsaken place, dark and damp,
01:11:19you wouldn't have been probably so eager to attend.
01:11:29Here you are far more agreeable.
01:11:36Ask yourself what is it that makes me agree to this environment
01:11:41rather than a so-called inferior environment.
01:11:49And even here you will find prakriti motives.
01:11:55Even here.
01:12:02The more you will scrutinize your behavior, actions, thoughts and intentions,
01:12:09the more horrified you will be.
01:12:12All the time there is just fulfillment at the material level that we are seeking.
01:12:22It would be truly horrifying to discover.
01:12:26Even when we say that we are spiritual seekers,
01:12:31it is actually material fulfillment that we are targeting.
01:12:39And if you can look at your life, your actions and intentions with that brutal honesty,
01:12:50then it is possible that out of sheer disgust towards yourself,
01:12:55you say I'm dropping myself.
01:13:02But without that ruthless honesty,
01:13:16you will just keep believing that you are a lover of truth.
01:13:29Will you remember this? We are not born to be lovers of truth.
01:13:33Each of us is born as a lover of flesh.
01:13:41So if an inner voice says I'm doing this for the sake of truth,
01:13:45I'm doing this because I like truth.
01:13:49Don't believe it too easily.
01:14:05If you go closer, if you investigate,
01:14:08you will find that all attempts, all intentions, all likes and dislikes,
01:14:16all decisions ultimately boil down to just the prakritic narrative.
01:14:26Food, comfort and sex.
01:14:29That's what we live for.
01:14:32That's what we act for and that's what we die for.
01:14:41That's what we are kids for.
01:14:45That's what we are young for.
01:14:47That's what we are old for.
01:14:55What is the fellow going to the temple for? Food, comfort and sex.
01:15:02What is the fellow giving birth for?
01:15:04What is the fellow committing suicide for?
01:15:22One thing that you should stoutly resist believing in is your own piousness.
01:15:32That's your greatest propaganda against yourself.
01:15:38I am pious. I have holy intentions.
01:15:43Come on.
01:15:53What do you think? Fake news are a recent phenomena.
01:15:58And WhatsApp can't ban it.
01:16:06You don't have to forward it to others.
01:16:09You invert it to yourself.
01:16:14I am pious and I have holy intentions.
01:16:20This was the first piece of fake news invented by man.
01:16:31Never forget that the intentions of the chimpanzee are just food, comfort, sex.
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