Where should I work: US or India? || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Is it better to go abroad or work in India? || Acharya Prashant Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zg-buKUD38&t=0s  Video Information: NIT-Warangal, 30.03.2022, Greater Noida, India  Context: What is real definition of work? What is meant by work-life integration? What is work? What is real work? What is the difference between labour and work?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~

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00:00 India is in a position where institutions are being created, institutions are being

00:09 empowered.

00:14 Indians want to be among the best, especially when it comes to science and technology and

00:21 research.

00:23 Why not contribute to the Indian quest?

00:30 But that's an individual decision.

00:34 You can choose between the comfort and the ready-made facilities that the US offers,

00:43 or you could choose between the chaos and the conflict.

00:48 Go for that.

00:53 As you go for that, be a part of the building a process.

01:04 It depends on your love.

01:06 That's why that was the first question I asked you.

01:11 What do you mean by love for the mother country in your own words and nationalism?

01:21 You must be clear about that.

01:24 What is a nation?

01:26 Is the nation really a valuable entity?

01:31 And if you know about nationalism, if you understand India, you'll also know whether

01:43 India deserves to be served.

01:50 And then the decision would be easier.

01:58 People don't return because they never belonged in the first place.

02:04 It's not as if they went away.

02:07 They were actually never here.

02:12 Just being coincidentally born at a certain place does not make you a native.

02:22 To be an Indian is a tough ask.

02:28 I do not think of India as having 140 crore Indians.

02:38 That's the population of the state.

02:45 That's not the number of Indians.

02:51 You want to have an official stat, you could say, well, demographics 140 crore.

02:58 That's all right.

03:01 Indians really, however, are probably no more than a few hundred alive, maybe a few thousand

03:12 and an equal number dead.

03:17 And these Indians are scattered all over the world.

03:23 Many of them have never even once come to the geographical position called India.

03:34 They are still Indians.

03:42 So you have to know India.

03:48 Just by being born here, you won't develop love.

04:04 You can develop some kind of an attachment to your territory, but that is not love.

04:12 An attachment does not have great power.

04:15 So when America lears, attachment is overpowered and people fly away and settle in the US.

04:27 I repeat, just by being born somewhere in India, you do not become an Indian.

04:36 You do not really grow love for India because love requires understanding.

04:46 To us India is mostly about cheering the Indian cricket team or sloveneering against rival

04:56 countries.

05:04 That's not what nationalism is.

05:21 If you just want to return to the place where you were born, there is nothing great or sublime

05:30 in this desire, this intention.

05:37 Being territorial is something all animals have.

05:46 All animals in existence have a certain feeling for their own territory.

05:57 So there is nothing great about the desire to return to your birthplace.

06:06 If India is just the birthplace of your body to you, then there is nothing special in India.

06:15 What is India really?

06:17 Figure that out and then you will know whether it is of importance to serve India.

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