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Video Information: 12.01.23, BITS, Goa
Context:
~ How to turn our life into a Success story?
~ How to be successful in life?
~ What is the reality of celebrities?
~ Why celebrities commit suicide?
~ How important is ambition?
~ What is celebrities' real life like?
~ Are we being fooled by glamour?
~ Want to study a course you don't like?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 12.01.23, BITS, Goa
Context:
~ How to turn our life into a Success story?
~ How to be successful in life?
~ What is the reality of celebrities?
~ Why celebrities commit suicide?
~ How important is ambition?
~ What is celebrities' real life like?
~ Are we being fooled by glamour?
~ Want to study a course you don't like?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00My question was regarding ambition. What is ambition? And how do you, you know, be ambitious?
00:09How do you create that force in you that will help you, you know, help you tackle every
00:15failure in life? Because you hear about, you hear about a lot of so called success stories,
00:22and you see that they had a lot of pitfalls in life, they had a lot of hurdles that they
00:26faced, but it was that one ambition that helped them reach where they are. So how do you develop
00:30that force within you? We'll take that. It's a very, very important question. It's a life
00:37changing question. You know, you have your own life to live, first of all.
00:49And nobody can be fulfilled, reaching a place somebody else has reached.
01:05You're born differently. What fulfills one cannot fulfill the other.
01:12What's more, you do not even know whether the other is fulfilled.
01:20Are you getting? You have someone in front of you, who's touting himself as a success story.
01:26I am a success story, right? I had ambitions.
01:31I had ambitions.
01:35And fueled by ambition, I braved all the challenges in life.
01:41And then I have reached this particular place. So I'm a superstar. Come on, follow me.
01:48I present myself as a role model, right? How do you know, first of all, that he has really
01:55reached any place of any worth? He's showing you what he needs to show you. The video that you are
02:05watching is a heavily curated and edited one. Do you know that? All kinds of filters and edits.
02:20So much has been put into it. The video that I'm talking of is the person's life story.
02:29How do you know how he is internally?
02:33And if all your role models have indeed reached worthy places,
02:37why do you hear of so many cases of suicides among those people? Why?
02:49And when they die by suicide, it makes big news. It makes big news precisely because
02:57so many people considered them their role models, right?
03:01Now, if he was indeed worthy of being a role model,
03:08why suicide? Why so many other things? Why tax evasion?
03:13Why so many other kinds of crimes?
03:26Please, he was a role model, charged of murder,
03:30black money, money laundering, drug abuse, rape, illicit dealings.
03:50I'm not alleging that all those you consider role models indulge in these things. I'm asking you,
03:58what do you know about his inner life? Can you?
04:03Being a celebrity, will he allow the inner details to ever emerge out?
04:12He's living off his reputation, correct? His reputation is his earning. Will he allow his
04:19reputation to be tainted? Then how can you be so ignorant, so gullible that you watch a video,
04:26read a story and think of it as true? Did you publish that video? Who published that video?
04:34Come on. He published that video. So, he is showing you what he wants to show you.
04:44He is doing what he wants to do. Why do you have to believe in what he is doing?
04:47Get that thing off your mind. When something fancy comes in front of you on the screen or
04:57somewhere, you just feel compelled and the visuals and audios and the narrative, that just overpowers
05:06you. Does it not? Like the eyes, they are gone, they are no more yours. The screen has captivated
05:12the eyes. The narrative has enchanted the mind. It's all gone. You are enslaved.
05:23And can you question the screen? Can you question the screen? Can you pause
05:28the video and say, well, I have a question to ask. Can you do that? You can't.
05:35Even if that fellow is speaking live, chances are he will not accept live questions.
05:42Even if he does accept a live question, chances are he will not tolerate cross questioning.
05:50He will not allow the real thing to emerge.
05:56So, there is no need as young people for you all to just fall for the stories. They are stories.
06:05They are very, very carefully written stories. Every single aspect of that story
06:14is minutely manufactured before the story is released.
06:22Now, ambition. Basically desire, right? Small desire you do not call as ambition. When the
06:34desire is big enough, you start calling it as an ambition. You want a glass of water,
06:49a little tumbler, you would call it, oh, you know, I want it. You want a bigger jug, you probably
06:58call it a desire, want, desire. You want an entire tank, that's an ambition.
07:06Not as changed. Is there a fundamental difference? Is there a fundamental difference? You want a
07:14little plot of land for yourself, you call it a desire. You want to win over an entire country,
07:25which itself is a plot of land, a bigger plot of land, you call it. So, that's desire, simple desire.
07:32And you know, where do all desires come from? Your animalistic biological conditioning.
07:38Have you seen dogs fight over their territories? Have you seen? Have you seen how one dog gets
07:45bitterly furious when another dog encroaches over its territory? And have you seen how they
07:52mark their territories? They just raise one leg and the stuff that they do is actually a territory
07:59marker. That's to indicate to the other dogs, this is the border, the international line.
08:11Don't breach into my sovereignty.
08:19But then a great king captures 10 lakh square kilometers and you say, oh,
08:26the great, mahan, he is doing what dogs have always done, capturing territory. That's ambition.
08:36Amplifying your animal nature, that's what.
08:42What do ambitious people want? Please tell me.
08:47More and more of the material, right? That's what animals also want.
08:52What's there in that?
08:56What's there in that?
09:00You have a life to live, you are very young.
09:06Can you work for something rather worthy?
09:14Can your energy come from love rather than ambition? And when you are very ambitious,
09:20and when you are very ambitious, obviously that inspires energy within, right?
09:27If you have desire for something, you feel energized. Have you seen that? And when you
09:33are ambitious, you feel all the more energized. It's just that all that energy is very cyclical.
09:40One moment you feel motivated, the other moment you feel
09:44demotivated and then you run towards some motivation pill.
09:50But anyway, a lot of energy comes from ambition. If you are ambitious, you will find spurts in energy.
10:01Can you live in the energy that comes from love? That's the question.
10:07Ambition says, I'll be fulfilled when I achieve that.
10:14Can you spend your life doing something
10:19that you do in fulfillment itself rather than targeting an imaginary fulfillment 20 years later?
10:2720 years later, I'm starting up, here's my new venture.
10:41Two years it will break even, if I'm lucky. Six years later, IPO.
10:51And then two years after that, I'll exit.
10:58And when I'll exit, I'll have lots of money. I'll sell off my shares and then I'll be fulfilled.
11:10Is it possible instead to choose something to do that keeps you fulfilled all the time?
11:19That's what I'm talking of as energy of love.
11:22Is it possible? We have to get into that question. There are no easy answers.
11:29But that's a question that you must ask yourself.
11:36These are the golden years of your life, right?
11:40Do you want to spend these years doing something you cannot even tolerate doing but
11:46still continue doing because you feel desirous of the future? Do you want to do that?
11:58Think of your courses. How many courses have you in a semester? Six?
12:03Nobody loves all the six courses. At least I never did.
12:09How do you live through the courses you don't love?
12:17It was very difficult for me. I don't know whether it's easy for you.
12:19Don't you have attendance requirement or something? Okay, lucky.
12:2675% attendance requirement and 75% means 75%.
12:34Living through the semester was not an easy job
12:37because it's just impossible to appreciate all the courses that came your way.
12:48But that was a requirement, right?
12:53Once you are out of the campus, there are no requirements. There is freedom.
12:59Do you want to spend your life, let's say the next five years, ten years,
13:06as if you are enrolled in a course, you are just waiting to come to an end.
13:16Let the semester end. Let me be relieved of this particular course even if with a C or D grade.
13:22That's how most people spend their lives. They just have no relationship with the work they are doing.
13:29All that they have is ambition, desires, no love.
13:39Tell me, if you love your work, would you ever think of selling off your course?
13:44Tell me, if you love your work, would you ever think of selling off your company?
13:51What are your role models? They are all serial entrepreneurs, are they not?
13:58If you really love what you have created, what you have brought up,
14:06would you simply sell it off? Would you do that, please?
14:09Would you do that? Is there any love in what they are doing? I'm asking you.
14:18There is just opportunism and that opportunism gets them money. But what does money get you?
14:29That's not the way to live. That just leaves you very, very poor within and that's what matters.
14:38And you become a curse not only to yourself, but a bane to entire humanity because you earn a lot
14:44of money and that lot of money is now in the hands of a foolish person.
14:51So, what will that foolish man do with that money?
14:56Not just consume, destroy, destroy. He'll fund all the right kinds of, all the wrong kinds of things.
15:09He'll buy a living enterprise and turn it dead. Do you have a recent example?
15:14That's what happens when a foolish man gets to have a lot of money.
15:19The entire planet is destroyed and because money can give you a lot of reach,
15:25all your nonsensical concepts will become household things.
15:33You start saying, well, climate change is going to happen.
15:35All your nonsensical concepts will become household things.
15:42You start saying, well, climate change is not a problem at all.
15:46Well, the earth actually needs more kids. Come on, go reproduce.
15:52What if the earth is burnt to ashes? We'll go and colonize another planet.
16:06Are you getting it?
16:12Ambition is a very steel thing. It's a dead thing.
16:20Do not forget where it comes from. It comes from your past in the jungle.
16:25You are conditioned to be desirous and social forces just encourage you to be even more desirous
16:41of the same things that you have been wanting since a million years.
16:45Same things. Let's do something new as young people.
16:53Or do you want to live the same life that your ancestors in the jungle were living?
17:02The monkey wanted a fruit, you want an orchard.
17:06Is that fundamentally different thing? Please,
17:10they were running after female monkeys then and even today you are running after the female monkey, maybe in a Ferrari.
17:22And the female monkey was
17:24attracted towards the alpha monkey then. Even today the female monkey is attracted towards the alpha monkey.
17:31Who is the alpha monkey today? The one with the Ferrari and the money.
17:39And the female monkey was attracted towards the alpha monkey then.
17:42Even today the female monkey is attracted towards the alpha monkey. Who is the alpha monkey today?
17:51The one with the Ferrari and the money. It's also monkeysh.
17:59Can we live fresh lives, new lives?
18:04Or do you want to continue that same animalistic tradition?
18:13A new one.
18:19Then tell yourself that you are free to not to believe, to not to be influenced.
18:28Freedom must be your most important value.
18:36Are you getting it?
18:37The world wants to steal away the most important thing that you have which is freedom of mind,
18:52liberty of consciousness. Do not allow the world to do that.
18:57And the world is not just outside of you, also inside of you. Your own thoughts and emotions,
19:05be very cautious of them. They are not yours. They belong to the world. They belong to this body
19:13and this body belongs to the world. This body is a heavily conditioned body.
19:21This brain is a part of this body and is equally heavily conditioned.
19:25So if an emotion arises in the brain or a thought wave is there,
19:30do not just quickly accept it or identify with it. Know that it is coming from the jungle
19:38or it is coming from the marketplace. It is not mine. So I'll be cautious.
19:47I'll be cautious. It is not mine. These emotions are not mine. Even the dog has these emotions.
19:54How can these emotions be mine?
20:01Look at dogs and cats that will tell you who you are. All of us are just dogs and cats.
20:07There is hardly anything in human life that does not belong to the life of a dog or a cat.
20:17Then how can this life be ours?
20:19Which means that no life has been given to us by our physical or social tradition.
20:29They do not give us any life. Life has to be created afresh.
20:35You have to write a new script of your own. The old script is not yours. It's a borrowed thing
20:44and it's a very bad and dangerous thing. Do not live by that script.
20:57Is it making sense? I do not expect it to make much sense, but still.
21:02Ask yourself these basic questions. Are you doing anything that is fundamentally different
21:06from what your grandparents were doing? Fundamentally different, not just superficially.
21:12You want money? You want money? Your grandpa also wanted money. How are you different?
21:19What's new?
21:50He also wanted more money compared to somebody else.
21:59What's new? Yeah, that might change, right? That's true. That's true.
22:10Yes, that can change. Obviously, we are not saying that newness is not possible. It is definitely
22:15possible. Definitely, a new life can be lived. Definitely, but not if you do not discard the old
22:23life and you cannot discard it if you do not know that it is old. We keep thinking of the old as the,
22:34we keep thinking of all the old stuff as brand new. Oh, I've fallen in love. I'm the first man
22:42in the world to fall in love. It's happening all over the place, son.
22:53I've fallen in love for the nth time in life, not the first time, right? What's new?
23:00Can we have something new?