They don't want this to be known || Acharya Prashant (2020)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: 15.11.2020, Mulakat Samagam, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India  Context: ~ Is eating animals same as eating plants? ~ Do animals have more value than plants? ~ What is that one reason that makes me take plants over animals? ~ How are we contributing to the animal cruelty?  ~ Why the people are so resistant towards the facts of animal cruelty?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #acharyaprashant #veganism #animalcrueltyfree

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00:00And when I see how the meat is produced, how the vaccines are produced with the horses,

00:14how wool is produced, how silk is produced, it seems so obvious that I am contributing

00:24to that by consuming those things.

00:31But it seems that the rest of the world does not see that.

00:36It seems like there's a crazy world out there where people are pretending to be righteous

00:43and good and peaceful.

00:45It's like there was an elephant that was shot by a hunter in Africa.

00:50And everyone, I remember I was with people who were actually eating meat at the time

00:56and they were saying how silly it is and how cruel it was to shoot that elephant.

01:01And then when I pointed out that what's on your plate, they got very angry and it became

01:06this discussion about I need it for my health and blah, blah, blah.

01:10So it seems so obvious, but it seems that there's something that stops people from believing

01:18it.

01:19When they see how the animal is killed, they change their mind, but not very often.

01:23But all that is hidden.

01:26And it's hidden.

01:27I don't even know what my question is.

01:33My question is, it seems so obvious.

01:35Why does it continue, I guess?

01:37Why are people so resistant to...

01:40See propaganda has to be met with publicity.

01:47You know the foundation had a TikTok account.

01:51It got banned because we were posting videos opposing meat consumption.

01:59Now I am told that when my videos pertaining to carnism and animal cruelty are posted on

02:13YouTube and Facebook and we seek to promote them, the respective companies, apps do not

02:23allow them to be promoted.

02:26So it's a matter of publicity.

02:29We need to shout into people's ears.

02:35We need to bring this to their notice.

02:37Our friend here wouldn't have asked this question had the thing not happened in front of his

02:41senses.

02:43So the matter has to be brought right in front of people's senses.

02:49That's the thing.

02:50Otherwise, we are so occupied with our mundane universe that we just have neither the intention

02:58nor the opportunity, to be fair to us, not even the opportunity to look at these things.

03:04Somebody has to really shout aloud, we are trying.

03:11See there is no other way.

03:23By hook or by crook, even without taking the other's consent, that video has to be pushed

03:32to the other's eyes.

03:36If you do not like the video, block me.

03:39But till you do not block me, I'll keep pushing it to you.

03:43That probably is the only way.

03:50Even something like vaccines that seems so ingrained in our society is produced using

03:56a lot of cruelty and horse's blood.

04:03And I agree that it's just making people aware.

04:05And a lot of those vaccines are totally unnecessary.

04:09And populations who are subjected to the maximum to those vaccines are the populations who

04:16have shown themselves to be most vulnerable to this virus, the current one.

04:22Don't you see?

04:23Look at the mortality rate in all the developed societies.

04:28And those are the societies whose immune systems have been heavily compromised because of excessive

04:33use of vaccines.

04:37Look at the third world, the mortality rates are almost acceptable.

04:47Look at Pakistan, look at Bangladesh, look at Africa, even India.

04:53Compared to the population of India, the mortalities are nowhere near the level of

05:03the US or UK or France.

05:08This brings me to another question and maybe I'm being righteous but one of the things

05:14I noticed was this mortality per thousand rate that you were talking about and part

05:19of me says, well, they deserve it, a little bit of gloating and I noticed.

05:24You don't have to feel guilty on feeling this way.

05:28There is somebody called Karmphal and it does not depend on whether we want it or not.

05:36It will come to us, like your credit card bill.

05:41It will come to you.

05:45You make use of vaccines for no reason at all and your immunity will become so dependent

05:51on vaccination that when the next virus strikes, you will again die in your millions.

06:02But then that's what all the pharma companies want, right?

06:05More and more vaccines and this and that, oh, a new virus has come, don't you want to

06:10protect your kid?

06:12Come, vaccinate him quickly and then parents, my God, my little Johnny, he needs to be protected.

06:19So first of all, Johnny has to be produced and then Johnny has to be protected.

06:24I guess another way that I've seen that works in convincing people to reduce flesh consumption

06:29is showing them the medical reports and even how dangerous milk is and then they stop.

06:35But that doesn't stop the other cruelty towards animals in terms of clothes, vaccines, inputs

06:42for industrial goods.

06:43But if you can somehow disrupt one part of this entire consumption chain, all the other

06:53articles would feel the pinch.

06:57For example, if you can convince someone not to use leather, I mean if you can convince

07:03a sizable number of people to not use leather, that would have an impact on the prices of

07:08meat.

07:09Or if you can convince people not to use milk and milk products, that would adversely impact

07:16the prices of leather and fur and everything else, meat.

07:23So once the prices rise, the consumption has to go down.

07:28You can even have a purely economic approach to the entire thing.

07:32You could say, let's figure out the actual cost of meat consumption or leather consumption

07:38or vaccination.

07:40Actual cost, which includes all the environmental damage, including all the future environmental

07:46damage that slaughtering an animal causes.

07:49And you take in the entire cost and then you price the animal product accordingly.

07:57And the price would be so overwhelmingly unaffordable.

08:03So even pure economics would do the trick.

08:09Yeah, that's the same thing that people say about environmental, add in the externalities,

08:15the external cost.

08:17I guess my question is, so it seems easier to convince people to stop because of health

08:22reasons.

08:24And there's a part of me that's saying, but am I, so yes, it definitely has an impact.

08:29But is that, am I giving up the bigger cause or am I settling for something that's not

08:35the full?

08:36No, but then, see, you cannot wait for someone to be spiritually realized before he gives

08:42up flesh.

08:45That would be too long a wait and too harsh on the animal.

08:50And there are several people who do not even intend to be realized.

08:55So that's probably the only way to take with them.

08:58Convince them that their body is suffering because of milk or meat.

09:02Convince them that probably even leather is carcinogenic when it comes in contact with

09:08human skin.

09:10Such things.

09:11Because if you take the high route, the route of compassion, the route of understanding,

09:21maybe they'll never walk that route, never prefer it.

09:29I see that with my father, so I convinced him to stop because of the health reasons.

09:34But he says, and then maybe this goes back to day one, he says things like, I didn't

09:38do it for the animals, I did it for myself, and that I can sense my attachment to wanting

09:44him to have done it for himself and for the spiritual reason.

09:50Maybe that can come next.

09:52Maybe once you have given up meat for purely personal and selfish reason, the higher reason,

09:59the more sublime cause, can follow next.

10:15When you come up with the right reasons, for most people it is just high-sounding rhetoric.

10:22They don't want to be preached.

10:25They don't want lessons in compassion.

10:30So tell them where it matters to them.

10:36Hit them where it hurts them.

10:42I guess for me, I go back to the hypocrisy of it, so you said they don't want lessons

10:46in compassion and that's been my experience.

10:48But then they profess to be so compassionate.

10:51So that can be called out.

10:52They don't like it when it's called out.

10:54You don't have to worry about it.

10:56Fine.

10:57If they don't like it, why are you worried about that?

10:58Fine.

10:59I guess I am worried because I won't be able to influence them to change as effectively.

11:03Once they have disliked you, they have created a permanent position of your influence in

11:08their consciousness.

11:09Don't you see that?

11:13You can probably forget someone you like, but it's very difficult to forget someone

11:17you dislike.

11:19So it lives in and it grows within.

11:27They may counter you or contradict you very energetically.

11:35But what you would say, that would stay in their minds for long.

11:41It's just that you'll have to pay the price in terms of being personally disliked, which

11:48is I think a price we all must be prepared to pay.

11:51I don't care about that.

11:52I guess I was more worried about turning them off the whole thing completely so the mind

11:57just stops thinking about it.

11:58That's what I was worried about.

11:59No, no.

12:00They will be turned off towards you as a person, but they will remain sensitive, conscious

12:09towards the issue.

12:13Even if they engage with the issue in negative ways, even if they engage with the issue just

12:22to belittle the issue or to oppose the issue, but at least the issue would stay in their

12:30consciousness.

12:32It's no more something that they can be oblivious of.

12:40And we have to run that risk.

12:43We cannot keep wanting to be popular among friends or acceptable among relatives.

12:56We'll have to run the risk of being unpopular, disliked, uninvited.

13:08I've noticed people, sometimes I think they'll react when I say I'm not going to go for a

13:16meal if there's animal products.

13:19I think they'll say, no, I don't want to go, but oftentimes they say, sure, let's try that.

13:24So I guess I'm seeing that the way I think about it is not always how it's playing out

13:31as well.

13:33Plus let me assure you, I mean just to incentivize you and others a little, they may talk of

13:48you as an oddity.

13:53They may contradict you or they may even probably go to the extent of ostracizing you.

14:02But somewhere deep within, they will respect you.

14:07So stand for the right thing.

14:18When we receive very harsh, very negative, abusive comments on all our social media,

14:27we take it as a success.

14:33Somebody has been hit just at the right place.

14:45On and off we get death threats as well.

14:49And that is taken as a jackpot.

15:07No question, but I want to say, whenever I watch your videos, the one thing that I'm

15:13most inspired by is the fierceness to stand for what is right, regardless of what anyone

15:20else says, thinks or does, and just because everyone else is crazy doesn't mean I have

15:25to be crazy.

15:26There's no other way to live.

15:27So thank you for that inspiration.

15:28There's just no other way to live.

15:31Don't have an option.

15:35Probably had there been an option, we might have found it lucrative, even compelling.

15:42But there is just no option.

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