Animal Instincts || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Vibes, Energy, Aura: New-age nonsense || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Guwahati (2023)

Transcript

00:00Look at the human male rushing after the human female and doing that all his life.

00:05And look at the monkey running after the female monkey and doing that all his life.

00:09How are these two any different?

00:10Internally, we are still animals.

00:12Our instincts, our feelings belong to the animals.

00:15We share them with the animals.

00:17Attachment you find in animals, you find in human beings as well.

00:20Jealousy, possessiveness, you find all across the jungle, also in cities.

00:26Human beings are so territorial, fighting for land.

00:30Look at Russia and Ukraine.

00:32And look at the dogs in front of your house.

00:35They too keep fighting for land.

00:37So we are doing all the things that animals do.

00:40You need not live by that.

00:41That's the reason why Vedanta continuously tells you, see, you are not the body.

00:47Naham dehasmi.

00:48What is that supposed to tell you?

00:51That you have no obligation to live by your bodily compulsions.