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00:00 There is one thing that I feel that should be discussed is that is true purpose of life.
00:08 We all talk about it a lot, we all hear it a lot but what do you think is the true purpose
00:13 of life and how someone who is 20 years old who is discovering his own true purpose like
00:18 what is the way for them to discover their true purpose and for that I have a quote too
00:22 from Victor Frankl.
00:25 He said he used to say ultimately man should not ask what the meaning of his life is but
00:30 rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.
00:34 In a word each man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering for
00:40 his own life.
00:41 To life he can only respond by being responsible.
00:46 So can you please expand on one of his course and like how to find the true purpose of life
00:51 for a youngster who is.
00:54 See you cannot ask for something called a true purpose while being simultaneously and
01:07 stubbornly invested in all kinds of blind purposes.
01:16 Maybe the true purpose of life is just to get rid of all the false purposes.
01:22 Maybe that's what you are born for.
01:24 Maybe the moment you were born you were already handed over a lot of false purposes plus the
01:34 potential to accumulate even more false purposes.
01:37 That's what your condition was the moment you were born.
01:45 When you are an infant.
01:49 Are you purposeless?
01:51 Ever seen an infant?
01:53 Is the infant purposeless?
01:55 No.
01:56 Even as a very little baby you still have a purpose or many purposes.
02:03 I want the right temperature.
02:06 I want the right humidity.
02:08 I want my feed very regularly and at the right time.
02:15 The room should be neither too dark nor too bright.
02:21 I want a few people around me at the same time.
02:24 I don't like crowds.
02:30 And if I spoil my little pants or the diaper, I want somebody to quickly provide me with
02:41 hygiene services.
02:44 So you already have purposes and all these purposes relate to the body, don't they?
02:49 Think of these.
02:54 Do these purposes really change as you grow up?
02:57 No, they don't.
03:01 You already have purposes and you have the potential to gather more purposes that are
03:09 nothing but the old biological purposes amplified in a social way.
03:20 The kid loves its territory, does it not?
03:24 Think of a kid or think of an animal.
03:28 Think of a pup or a kitten.
03:31 They love their territory, don't they?
03:34 If you have, how many of you have pups or kittens or some experience with them?
03:39 If you have two of them, they know their areas.
03:43 And if the other one squirts on their area, see how violent they get.
03:48 See?
03:49 Now how is that very very different from the adult zest, the adult desperation to have
04:01 a house, a house that you can call your own.
04:08 And when you were growing up, you had your room probably and your brother had a room
04:16 and once you reach a certain age, siblings are put into separate rooms.
04:24 And did you really enjoy if your, let's say, your brother intruded and messed up with your
04:29 room?
04:33 You retaliated, right?
04:34 You said, "Fine, now see what I can do."
04:40 How is that very different from the very biological urge of a human baby or an animal to protect
04:52 its space, its territory?
04:56 And then food.
04:58 See how the baby yells if it does not get food at the right time.
05:06 And the baby can get really violent.
05:09 It does not care for the mother's comfort, right?
05:12 It's 3 am, the mother is very tired and somehow she has managed to fall asleep.
05:20 And what does the baby do?
05:21 Does the baby display compassion?
05:23 Does the baby say, "I'll hold my hunger till 6 am at least.
05:27 Let mama relax."
05:29 Does the baby say that?
05:30 What does it do?
05:31 Baby says, "My hunger is more important than her comfort.
05:36 It does not matter whether she is mother or father or whosoever she is.
05:40 If I am hungry, I am hungry."
05:45 And that hunger relates to body identification.
05:48 I want food at any cost.
05:51 Even if it does something terrible to the mother, I must have food.
05:57 Is that not what grown-ups also keep doing their entire life?
06:02 It's just that the diversity in food increases.
06:06 The kid simply wants milk.
06:07 Adults say, "We want all kinds of dishes when it comes to the stomach.
06:12 And we also want mental food.
06:14 All kinds of things that fill up not only the stomach but also the mind."
06:20 And just as the kid says, "I must have the food irrespective of what it does to the other.
06:25 Even if it includes violence, I will have what I want."
06:29 Similarly, adults keep saying, "If I want something that fills me up, either psychologically
06:35 or physically, I'll have it even if I have to kill the entire humanity."
06:41 So you have purposes.
06:43 We are created with inbuilt purposes.
06:53 There is an a priori purpose even before your birth.
07:01 Now you see what is the true purpose of life?
07:04 Get rid of all these nonsensical purposes.
07:07 Just because you are born, you haven't become human.
07:10 The kid can hardly be called human.
07:15 You have to become human by discarding all those purposes embedded in your hardware.
07:26 And the society, when it brings you up, raises you, educates you, does very little to relieve
07:35 you of those biological purposes.
07:40 It simply builds on them.
07:42 In that way, it amplifies those biological purposes.
07:48 The kid is competitive, is it not?
07:50 The kid is violent.
07:51 The kid is selfish.
07:52 The kid has very little realization.
07:58 And the society just teaches you how to satisfy your violent and competitive nature.
08:09 This that you call as success, and everybody wants to be successful, right?
08:15 This that you call as success, is this not something, if you truly look into it, that
08:22 is arising right from our biological core?
08:28 What does being successful mean?
08:32 It's basically a kind of domination that you have over others, right?
08:35 Now don't talk about the success of an Einstein or a Gautam Buddha or a Krishna.
08:42 Keep them aside.
08:44 In general parlance, when you talk of success, what do you mean?
08:48 I am better than the others.
08:51 I have power over the others.
08:57 If you have only as much as everybody else has, would you call yourself successful?
09:02 Success you see, therefore, is necessarily violent because you consider yourself successful
09:08 only when you are ahead of 40 others.
09:12 So 40 others have to be put behind, left behind, defeated, subjugated, dominated for you to
09:22 be successful.
09:25 And that kind of a thing is already present in the kid when it is born.
09:34 Competitiveness is biological.
09:36 Compassion has to be taught.
09:39 Attraction and attachment are biological.
09:42 Love has to be taught.
09:48 Are you seeing something about the purpose of life now?
09:52 What's the purpose of life?
09:55 Learn to love.
09:59 Grow human.
10:01 Undo your conditioning.
10:05 You are born engaged.
10:09 Fight hard to break free.
10:14 That's the purpose of life.
10:15 Otherwise, it's a very strange thing.
10:22 Like a prisoner in his cell, fully engaged and he is deeply in thought.
10:39 What is the purpose of life?
10:40 Can't you see?
10:43 Don't you see?
10:47 You are in prison and that exactly is the purpose of life.
10:53 What else?
10:55 But the fellow is saying, you know, this is the world.
10:59 These four walls are the universe.
11:03 And I have to figure out where is the purpose of life within these four walls.
11:08 Sir, remaining where you are.
11:16 You can have no purpose.
11:20 You are imprisoned.
11:21 What purpose do you want?
11:23 Any purpose that you will have will be within the prison.
11:27 You like to call that a purpose?
11:30 Any purpose that a prisoner will have will be within the prison.
11:37 So the only rightful purpose can be break out.
11:42 Break out.
11:43 What else?
11:45 But that's not what your education, your society will ever tell you.
11:50 That's a secret never to be disclosed.
11:52 They will never tell you.
11:55 They will tell you of all the great things.
11:57 Come on, come on, come on.
12:00 Within the prison.
12:03 And they have raised a lot of amusing and entertaining, attractive places within yourself.
12:12 Within yourself, there are a lot of attractions.
12:14 All within the cell, mind you.
12:17 All within the cell.
12:22 Enough to keep you engaged all your life.
12:26 So you're born in a prison and then you die in the prison.
12:36 And you have some meditators within the prison who keep asking, what is the purpose of life?
12:42 What is the purpose of life?
12:58 And then there are the handcuffs, chains, the fetters and all the jazz.
13:13 And what do you call that?
13:15 You call that handcuffs?
13:19 Do you ever?
13:22 No?
13:23 Nice bangles.
13:34 Look at that and think of what it really is.
13:37 Where does it come from?
13:39 Does it come from your consciousness?
13:44 Really?
13:45 Think of all the stuff that you are wearing on your body, because I can't point at stuff
13:50 that you are wearing in your mind.
13:51 I wish I could.
13:54 It's very intangible.
13:55 I can't show it to you right now.
13:56 Even if I see it, I can't show it to you.
13:59 But think of all the things that you are wearing on your body.
14:02 Think of where they're coming from.
14:03 Think of this ring on your finger.
14:08 You think of that as something you have chosen to wear, right?
14:12 Please, do you know what that means?
14:15 Why is it present on you?
14:17 It's present on you out of somebody else's wish.
14:20 But that exactly is the definition of a handcuff, which is present on your body, not because
14:26 you want it, but because somebody else wants it.
14:29 Is that not what is the definition of a handcuff?
14:31 Please tell me.
14:33 So if you wear that necklace or that ring or that amulet or whatever it is, I don't
14:39 know.
14:40 There's a lot of stuff that we wear internally, externally.
14:43 You have to ask, how is that different from chains and all kinds of...
14:53 Why?
14:55 That's the purpose of life.
15:02 Give it up.
15:03 Good evening, sir.
15:15 My name is Shashat Godara.
15:17 So as you said, these are all handcuffs.
15:20 But if they are giving me happiness, and the one who has given me those handcuffs, and
15:27 it is giving them also happiness, so why shouldn't I wear them?
15:32 Why is there this question about the midlife crisis and the crash at the age of 20?
15:39 Wish they could give you happiness.
15:41 All that they give you is a bubble.
15:43 Don't you see that the entire discussion today from the beginning till this point has been
15:49 about crashes, midlife crisis and depression and rejection and what not.
15:58 Wish all this stuff that you are wearing on your wrist or on your mind could give you
16:05 lasting happiness.
16:06 It does not.
16:08 It does not.
16:10 And it is the ensuing frustration that kills.
16:22 And that's what you are saying.
16:23 Most people prefer to live in the proverbial fool's paradise than in the eternal truth.
16:34 We want to somehow be entertained even if we know that the entertainment is false.
16:42 That's what the common life is all about.
16:45 I fully well know I am being fooled.
16:47 But I still agree to it.
16:51 My question is why must it be so?
16:55 Why must you invite a lot of suffering just for a little bit of gratification?
17:06 That's a peculiar feature amongst animals.
17:11 That's how animals are trapped, maimed, killed.
17:18 You show them a little bit of fodder or bait and what do they do?
17:24 They walk into it.
17:25 And then what happens to them?
17:28 What happens to them?
17:30 You know what you do to them, right?
17:33 The inability to resist instant gratification is a feature of animals.
17:41 If you are a human being, you should be able to say, "No, I do not want gratification."
17:45 Gratification, you understand?
17:46 What is gratification?
17:49 Just sensory happiness, pleasure.
17:53 Yes.
17:54 That's gratification.
17:56 Animals do that.
18:00 So you show the rabbit some carrot and the rabbit won't be able to resist it.
18:07 It walks up to you and then you just skin it alive.
18:12 Otherwise you won't be wearing all the rabbit jackets, angora and all those things.
18:22 Why must we behave like unconscious animals?
18:27 And if you behave like animals, you will meet the fate of animals.
18:32 Don't you see how easy it has been to trap animals?
18:35 Why do you want to be trapped like animals?
18:39 Somebody will show you some happiness and you start following him.
18:46 Is that not how all of us are trapped?
18:50 Nobody traps us by telling us the truth.
18:53 We are trapped by those who sell us, please, happiness.
19:00 So be very cautious when someone gives you happiness or sells you happiness or promises
19:07 you happiness.
19:08 Be very cautious, you are being trapped.
19:10 Happiness is the ultimate trap.
19:13 You will be made happy for a while and then after that no relief, no respite.
19:25 Once this thing gets on your wrist, you know how difficult it is to get it off.
19:31 Once that thing gets on your finger, you very well know how difficult it is to…
19:38 You are young people, I hope you understand.
19:42 So before you put these things on and it's a moment of great happiness, intoxicating
19:48 happiness when you are compelled to put that thing here or here or here or here, avoid.
19:58 It's easy to get into the trap, almost impossible to get out of it.
20:06 Remember the mouse, think of the mouse trap.
20:11 The knowers have said that the wise men look at the world first of all as a mouse trap
20:19 or a minefield.
20:26 Anytime there can be an explosion.
20:29 Anything that appears tempting and tasty can simply trap you.
20:33 Thank you.