We forced the virus to come to us || Acharya Prashant (2020)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information:   Context: ~ You thought your cruel orgy would continue unchecked? ~ How to protect from coronavirus? ~ Is it possible to survive coronavirus? ~ Coronavirus's impact on the global economy ~ China, Atheism and Coronavirus ~ How to avoid anxiety and fear in this difficult situation? ~ How to use the free time?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~ #acharyaprashant #epidemic #science

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00:00What's worse, there might be much more lethal and incurable viruses to come in the future.

00:26We talk of the virus as the problem.

00:31In fact, if you go to the social media to get a hang of how we are looking at the whole

00:37thing in a cultural way, you often find the virus being depicted as a demon or a horned

00:47monster or something, right?

00:50That's how we are trying to portray the virus.

00:57But is the virus to be blamed?

01:01Did the virus conspire to come and affect and kill humanity?

01:09Or did we go and force the virus to come to us?

01:17In a lighter vein, even the virus must be in a state of shock right now.

01:24The virus was gladly living where it was, where it must be, in the lap of the jungles.

01:35But when we go to the jungle, we destroy the jungle, we want to just eat and consume anything

01:44that we can lay our hands on.

01:47And so we have forced the virus to come to us.

01:50And now it is the nature of the virus to mutate and travel and propagate itself and infect

01:56as many as possible.

01:58The virus is doing what the virus must.

02:01We are not doing what we must.

02:04The virus is almost a chemical, you see.

02:07It is just a little heap of genetic information.

02:16That's all that the virus is.

02:17It hardly has any consciousness.

02:20In fact, we do not even know whether to call the virus as a living or a non-living thing.

02:28So the virus is almost a chemical.

02:30What we are saying is, oh, the chemical is to be blamed.

02:33Is the chemical to be blamed seriously?

02:36It's almost like saying carbon is evil.

02:42But then who is emitting all the carbon into the atmosphere?

02:47We are saying, oh, CO2 is a problem.

02:52Has CO2 decided on its own to invade you and maim you?

02:57Are you getting it?

03:00So because our entire worldview is flawed, because the very philosophy that forms the

03:09foundation of our civilization and our existence is flawed, therefore, we keep getting such

03:20episodic shocks from time to time.

03:26It would be a thing of mercy if such things happen only episodically.

03:34What I'm afraid of is that this thing may strike humanity in a way from which humanity

03:45may never be able to recover.

03:48One small little, almost innocuous virus.

03:53And you see how the entire world appears paralyzed, everything is in a limbo.

04:02What if a stronger strain comes through?

04:07We will not take long to meet the fate of the dinosaurs.

04:16And then we'll wonder why did this happen to us?

04:18Well, it was coming.

04:20We just didn't see it.

04:24We think of ourselves as bigger than nature.

04:30Our heroes are people who very fancifully talk of colonizing other planets and this

04:42and that.

04:43We'll go here.

04:44We'll go there.

04:45Right now, you cannot even go to the grocery.

04:48And they are saying we'll go to Mars and we'll settle there and the moon is our next colony.

04:55Right now, you cannot even walk to the next residential colony in your own city and you're

05:02thinking of having the moon as the next colony.

05:06But then the ego does not understand.

05:10It cannot.

05:12It does not have the power to understand.

05:14It can have knowledge.

05:16It's like a virus.

05:18It can multiply, but it can never be conscious.

05:24In a sense, this external virus is very, very symbolic of something within man.

05:42Something within man.

05:44The tendency to proliferate.

05:47The tendency to destroy anyone it touches.

05:52Are we talking about the virus or the ego, both?

05:57The tendency to reach anyone you come in contact with and reach in a debilitating way.

06:07Is that not how we relate to each other?

06:10There are very few who would uplift someone who comes in contact with them.

06:15Mostly, if you come in contact with somebody, you just infect him, not uplift him.

06:22That's the way our usual relationships operate.

06:26That's also the way the virus operates.

06:31We don't know.

06:32Is the ego the virus?

06:33Is the virus the ego?

06:34Who knows?

06:35The ego is such a subtle thing.

06:38We talk of it as a concept.

06:40Now is the time to see it in action.

06:44Because you see, we want proofs.

06:47After all, we are logical, rational people, or so we believe.

06:50We like to pride ourselves on that.

06:56So here is the proof.

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