Who deserves to have money? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Delhi (2022)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: with IIT Delhi, 24.07.22, Delhi  Context: ~ Is money important? ~ How much money should one earn? ~ How to earn right livelihood? ~ Who deserves to have money? ~ If mostly wrong people hold power and money how would right people get into power?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00Very good afternoon, Aashiriji.

00:11So just let me introduce myself first, I'm Dr. Anasuya Roy, PhD from Textile Technology

00:15in 2019.

00:17So my question is, so you always say that truth or righteousness is actually the one

00:27who needs Shakti, advertisement or power, right, whereas Maya, on the other hand, is

00:32rampantly advertised and promoted.

00:35But if you look at today's context, money is also a very powerful tool, which resides

00:40mostly with several people who might not be so much righteous.

00:44So what do you suggest?

00:45Do we transform those power holders, who are power holders of money into righteous one?

00:51Or do you say that we should, you know, transform those people into more righteous ones?

00:58Should the money be transferred or should the people be transferred into a more righteous

01:02one, if I'm making any sense?

01:04So if the latter is correct, how would you earn a huge money power from the system of

01:09Maya, and without succumbing yourself to Maya?

01:13And eventually, what's the point?

01:15Because if you look at any particular time, there will be an equilibrium in the existence

01:19of both the right and wrong person's holding power.

01:22So this impact, I believe, won't be realized or be felt by the society, if you can kindly

01:28enlighten me on this issue.

01:31You see, this has always been the case and some kind of a solution has been found, depending

01:46on the specifics of the time and the age.

01:53You look at that classical duel between Ram and Ravan.

02:00Ravan was the superpower of that time.

02:05All the resources were concentrated in his hands, were they not?

02:11And the palace itself was of gold.

02:16What more can be said?

02:19And he was sought to be reformed initially, obviously.

02:26The first attempt has to be to enlighten the other, to try to reform the other.

02:37But that usually won't work.

02:40And when that does not work, then there has to be strife and struggle, dharmiyudh.

02:50It's not without reason that the most important scripture of the Sanatan fold is set on the

03:13battleground, Bhagavad Gita.

03:18So, and even there, on the battlefield, the Pandava side was, in terms of resources and

03:32numbers, significantly less powerful than their adversaries.

03:41So solutions have to be found.

03:44On one hand, you have to try to bring people like Duryodhana in line.

03:51So Vidura tried to say something to him, Bhishma tried to show some sense to him.

03:57Even Krishna went to teach him and somehow get him to agree to peace.

04:07Sometimes that works, sometimes that may not work.

04:10When that does not work, then you have to figure out how to accumulate resources and

04:17how to have the tactical wherewithal to confront the enemy and then you take them on, you take

04:28them on.

04:29There is no other way.

04:31You talked of the rich people in today's era.

04:38You see, if we could be a people who work on consciousness, then the riches would ideally

04:52belong to the people who have the consciousness to utilize those riches.

05:02It would be a simple equation.

05:06The extent of resources at your disposal must be proportional to the depth of your

05:14consciousness.

05:17Simple equation that would determine how much money a person must have or could have.

05:24On the contrary, if you have a society in which people with very ordinary or even below

05:33ordinary levels of consciousness are commanding resources and power, then that society is

05:41bound to go down as we are seeing today.

05:48And that's adharma in the social sense.

05:53That's exactly what Shri Krishna was trying to avoid.

05:57Hastinapur was the most important and the most powerful kingdom of the time.

06:03Krishna didn't want that all those resources should go into undeserving hands like that

06:14of Duryodhana.

06:16It was not just a matter of justice prevailing in the sense of a feud between brothers.

06:25It was not something internal to one family.

06:29It was something that was going to affect a lot of other people, the entire population

06:35of Hastinapur and also probably all the other kingdoms in the Indian subcontinent.

06:46It had a much wider context.

06:49So dharma then had to be upheld and that's why the battle had to be fought and that's

06:56why the Gita had to be narrated.

07:00That's something that you would need in every era because Maya is at work continuously.

07:10And so she ensures that all kinds of nonsensical and atrocious things keep happening.

07:21All kinds of undeserving people keep getting power.

07:29They keep becoming the presidents and the prime ministers of the world and even evil

07:36minds keep getting to accumulate wealth and influence.

07:46So when you see that happening, then it's upon you to go back to the Gita and remember

07:58what was instructed to you and not be shy of a good battle.

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