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
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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LearningTranscript
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?
00:31We'll, we'll take that. It's a very, very important question. It's a life changing question.
00:45You know, you have your own life to live, first of all. And nobody can be fulfilled
00:59reaching a place somebody else has reached. You're born differently. What fulfills one
01:10cannot fulfill the other. What'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
01:27story. I am a success story, right? I had ambitions. And fueled by ambition, I braved
01:38all the challenges in life. And then I have reached this particular place. So I'm a superstar.
01:46Come on, follow me. I present myself as a role model, right? How do you know, first
01:53of all, that he has really reached any place of any worth? He's showing you what he needs
02:01to show you. The video that you are watching is a heavily curated and edited one. Did you
02:11know that? All kinds of filters and edits. So much has been put into it. The video that
02:26I'm talking of is the person's life story. How do you know how he is internally? And
02:35if all your role models have indeed reached worthy places, why do you hear of so many
02:40cases of suicides among those people? Why? And when they die by suicide, it makes big
02:53news. It makes big news precisely because so many people consider them their role models, right?
02:59Now if he was indeed worthy of being a role model, why suicide? Why so many other things?
03:11Why tax evasion? Why so many other kinds of crimes? Please, he was a role model charged of
03:30murder, black money, money laundering, Hawala, drug abuse, rape, illicit dealings. I'm not
03:50alleging that all those you consider your role models indulge in these things. I'm asking you,
03:57what do you know about his inner life? Can you? Being a celebrity, will he allow the inner
04:07details to ever emerge out? He is living off his reputation, correct? His reputation is his earning.
04:18Will he allow his reputation to be tainted? Then how can you be so ignorant, so gullible that you
04:25watch a video or read a story and think of it as true? Did you publish that video? Who published
04:33that video? Come on. He published that video. So he is showing you what he wants to show you.
04:39He is doing what he wants to do. Why do you have to believe in what he is doing? Get that thing
04:52off your mind. When something fancy comes in front of you on the screen or somewhere, you just feel
04:59compelled and the visuals and the audios and the narrative that just overpowers you. Does it not?
05:07Like the eyes, they are gone. They are no more yours. The screen has captivated the eyes. The
05:14narrative has enchanted the mind. It's all gone. You are enslaved and can you question the screen?
05:24Can you question the screen? Can you pause the video and say, well, I have a question to ask.
05:31Can you do that? You can't. Even if that fellow is speaking live, chances are he will not accept
05:40live questions. Even 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. So there is no need as young people, for you all,
06:00to just fall for the stories. They are stories. They are very very carefully written stories.
06:08Every single aspect of that story is minutely manufactured before the story is released.
06:22Now ambition. Basically desire, right? Small desire you do not call as ambition. When the
06:35desire is big enough, you start calling it as an ambition, right? You want a glass of water,
06:48a little tumbler, you would call it, you know, I want it. You want a bigger jug, you probably call
06:59it a desire. You want desire. You want an entire tank, that's an ambition. Not as changed. Is there
07:09a fundamental difference? Is there a fundamental difference? You want a little plot of land for
07:15yourself, you call it, you call it desire, you know. 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. Have
07:39you 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
07:53mark 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.
08:09Don't breach into my sovereignty. But then a great king captures 10 lakh square kilometers
08:25and you say, oh, the great, mahan, he is doing what dogs have always done, capturing territory.
08:32That's ambition. Amplifying your animal nature, that's what. What do ambitious people want?
08:44Please tell me. More and more of the material, right? That's what animals also want.
08:52What's there in that? What's there in that? You have a life to live, you are very young.
09:04Can you work for something rather worthy? Can your energy come from love rather than ambition?
09:19And when you are very ambitious, obviously that inspires energy within, right? If you have desire
09:28for something, you feel energized. Have you seen that? And when you are ambitious, you feel all
09:34the more energized. It's just that all that energy is very cyclical. One moment you feel motivated,
09:42the other moment you feel demotivated and then you run towards some motivation pill.
09:48But anyway, a lot of energy comes from ambition. If you are ambitious, you will find spurts in energy.
09:59Can you live in the energy that comes from love? That's the question. Ambition says,
10:10I'll be fulfilled when I achieve that. Can you spend your life doing something
10:20that you do in fulfillment itself rather than targeting an imaginary fulfillment 20 years later?
10:32I'm starting up. Here's my new venture.
10:36Two years it will break even, if I'm lucky. Six years later, IPO.
10:48And then two years after that, I'll exit. And when I'll exit, I'll have lots of money.
11:00I'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. Is it possible?
11:25We have to get into that question. There are no easy answers.
11:30But that's a question that you must ask yourself.
11:37These are the golden years of your life, right?
11:41Do you want to spend these years doing something you cannot even tolerate doing but
11:48still continue doing because you feel desirous of the future? Do you want to do that?
11:59Think of your courses. How many courses have you in a semester? Six?
12:04Nobody loves all the six courses. At least I never did.
12:10How do you live through the courses you don't love?
12:12It 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.
12:36Because it's just impossible to appreciate all the courses that came your way.
12:51But that was a requirement, right?
12:56Once you are out of the campus, there are no requirements. There is freedom.
13:01Do you want to spend your life, let's say the next 5 years, 10 years, as if you are enrolled in a course?
13:14You are just waiting to come to an end.
13:19Let the semester end. Let me be relieved of this particular course, even if with a C or D grade.
13:26That's how most people spend their lives. They just have no relationship with the work they are doing.
13:33All that they have is ambition, desires, no love.
13:43Tell me, if you love your work, would you ever think of selling off your company?
13:48What about your role models? They are all serial entrepreneurs, are they not?
13:55If you really love what you have created, what you have brought up,
14:02would you simply sell it off? Would you do that, please?
14:08Would you do that?
14:09Is there any love in what they are doing? I am asking you.
14:12There is just opportunism and that opportunism gets them money. But what does money get you?
14:25That's not the way to live. That just leaves you very, very poor.
14:31And that's what matters. And you become a curse, not only to yourself, but a bane to entire humanity
14:38because you earn a lot of money and that lot of money is now in the hands of a foolish person.
14:47So, what will that foolish man do with that money?
14:50Not just consume, destroy, destroy. He'll fund all the right kinds of, all the wrong kinds of things.
15:01He'll buy a living enterprise and turn it dead. Do you have a recent experience of that?
15:08Destroy. He'll fund all the right kinds of, all the wrong kinds of things.
15:15He'll buy a living enterprise and turn it dead. Do you have a recent example?
15:24That's what happens when a foolish man gets to have a lot of money.
15:29The entire planet is destroyed. And because money can give you a lot of reach,
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.
16:04Are you getting it?
16:12Ambition is a very stale 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.
16:53How 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. Is that fundamentally different thing? Please,
17:09they were running after female monkeys then and even today you are running after the female monkey, maybe in a Ferrari.
17:21And the female monkey was
17:23attracted towards the alpha monkey then. Even today the female monkey is attracted towards the alpha monkey.
17:32Who is the alpha monkey today? The one with the Ferrari and the money bag.
17:39Can we live fresh lives, new lives?
17:45Or do you want to continue that same animalistic tradition?
17:49Can we live fresh lives, new lives or do you want to continue that same animalistic tradition?
17:57Can we live fresh lives, new lives or do you want to continue that same animalistic tradition?
18:11Then tell yourself that you are free to not to believe, to not to be influenced.
18:23Freedom must be your most important value.
18:36Are you getting it?
18:41The 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 and the world is not just outside of you,
19:00also inside of you. Your own thoughts and emotions, be very cautious of them. They are not yours.
19:09They belong to the world. They belong to this body and this body belongs to the world.
19:15This body is a heavily conditioned body.
19:18This brain is a part of this body and is equally heavily conditioned.
19:23So 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
19:37or it is coming from the marketplace. It is not mine. So I'll be cautious.
19:48I'll be cautious. It is not mine. These emotions are not mine. Even the dog has these emotions.
19:55How 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.
20:14Then how can this life be ours?
20:20Which means that no life has been given to us by our physical or social tradition.
20:30They do not give us any life. Life has to be created afresh.
20:35Life has to be created afresh. You have to write a new script of your own. The old script is not
20:45yours. It's a borrowed thing and 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.
21:05Ask yourself these basic questions. Are you doing anything that is fundamentally
21:15different from what your grandparents were doing? Fundamentally different, not just superficially.
21:20You want money? You want money? Your grandpa also wanted money. How are you different?
21:34What's new?
21:50He also wanted more money compared to somebody else.
21:54Yeah. What'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
22:15definitely possible. Definitely a new life can be lived. Definitely, but not if you do not discard
22:23the old life. And you cannot discard it if you do not know that it is old. We keep thinking of
22:31the old as the, we keep thinking of all the old stuff as brand new. Oh, I've fallen in love.
22:41I'm the first man in 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?
23:01Can we have something new?
23:23Oh