Youth Resists Vivekananda the most || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: If Vivekanand comes alive today, this is what he faces || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023) Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hxb9lSMQHk&t=1s  Video Information: 12.01.2023, BITS, Goa  Context:  ~ Has religion really been successful in its purpose? ~ Is a man better off without religion? ~ What is the role of religion in a man's life?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00 Nobody wants to accept a Swami Vivekananda.

00:10 His lot, his fate is to be resisted.

00:16 He was resisted then, he would be resisted even today.

00:20 He was resisted by everybody including the youth then, it is the youth that would resist

00:26 him even today.

00:28 Now that's very counter intuitive because we love to talk of Swami Vivekananda as a

00:34 youth icon, right?

00:36 Swami Vivekananda, the favourite of the youth, youth icon, youth icon and here I am asserting

00:43 that were he to be here today, it is the youth that would resist him the most.

00:52 Because the work of a spiritual revolutionary, of the knower of Vedanta and it is Vedanta

01:02 that Swamiji was most fond of, he worshipped Vedanta, not any God.

01:09 To him Vedanta was secret.

01:14 His work is to challenge the conditioning of the day, in that alone lies the worship

01:22 of the truth.

01:25 Challenge conditioning, what are we conditioned as?

01:30 What are you conditioned to believe in?

01:31 Tell me please.

01:38 His work would be equally difficult today.

01:45 Beliefs have changed, the believer has not.

01:50 The one who loves to live in beliefs has not changed.

01:56 It is just that he has changed his beliefs.

02:01 So there was one set of beliefs then.

02:06 Be with me, come on.

02:07 There is another set of beliefs now.

02:11 But the tendency to live in beliefs has not changed.

02:16 He will have an equally tough task today with you guys.

02:23 You will not question him as a youth icon.

02:28 After he is gone, then another generation would, not you.

02:33 You would not like to listen to him.

02:36 Listening to someone who brings the truth to you is always a difficult task.

02:43 The nature of truth is that it cannot be pleasant, irrespective of how much you try to sweeten

02:58 it or smoothen it.

03:06 Are you getting it?

03:08 Think of this.

03:09 So many people would assemble to listen to him.

03:13 When he returned from the States, a huge procession greeted him right at the port.

03:23 But when he asked for just a hundred people who could be his soldiers, he was denied.

03:39 Beliefs are superstitions.

03:41 Just that it is easy to call the other's superstition as superstition.

03:51 Our own superstition we call as a sacred belief or holy culture or passion.

04:04 In a non-religious, non-cultural context, your personal belief you will call as your

04:10 passion but even that is superstition.

04:15 And when that is challenged, one does not like it.

04:21 The superstitions of that time are quite evident.

04:26 The fellow is for example saying that snakes live for 2000 years or that a certain tree

04:34 turns into a beautiful lady every fortnight and today you can laugh those things away.

04:43 How about the superstitions of today?

04:46 Have we tried to inquire the superstitions that we carry?

04:52 Come on.

05:00 Risk a guess at least.

05:05 Can you watch me from there?

05:08 Otherwise this seat is available.

05:09 Come on, come over to this side.

05:12 I will have to bend to look at you and same with you.

05:25 What are the superstitions we carry?

05:29 Please.

05:32 Ha ha ha consume, consume and consume.

05:42 Have more.

05:43 That's the purpose of life.

05:46 Happiness is the purpose of life and happiness is obtained through consumption.

05:53 Happiness is the purpose of life and happiness comes through consumption.

05:59 And Swami Vivekananda will again have to fight this superstition till his last breath.

06:09 And he will again be defeated.

06:11 We will not let him win.

06:13 Thank you.

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