What does your heart beat for? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Passion too comes from surroundings.

00:02But passion becomes dangerous because it presents itself as if it is something internal.

00:08Not only does it present itself as something internal,

00:11it decorates itself as something of the heart.

00:15The fellow will say, you know, my heart beats for cricket.

00:17You must ask him, why doesn't your heart beat for ice hockey?

00:20Just because you have had no conditions favorable to ice hockey.

00:27You have not been conditioned towards ice hockey.

00:31You are conditioned towards cricket.

00:33Because there was cricket on the TV, there was cricket in the journals,

00:37on the radio, in the park in front of your house.

00:40Your elder brother put a cricket bat in your hand when you were just 3 years old.

00:44You were seeing all these things.

00:46And all these things were having an influence on you.

00:49The result is, you didn't even get to know when you absorbed and generalized all these things

00:54and you have started saying, well, my heart beats for cricket.

00:57Were you born in Brazil, would your heart still beat for cricket?

01:01Or Russia, let's say?

01:02So passion is as much an external thing as, let's say, peer pressure.