00:08Several times in each chapter, we see how helpless Krishn is.
00:15We find weakness lording over strength exactly because it is weak.
00:22Trimad Bhagavad Gita is an epic struggle and Krishn is the struggler.
00:31It all tugs at your heartstrings.
00:35It's actually a song as much of melancholy as of wisdom.
00:42That's the reason I love the Gita.
00:45It becomes very difficult for us to decide on what we want to go on with,
00:56with a lot of other things on our plate.
00:58So, there's this inner voice that tells us to go for what we are passionate about,
01:03but on the same side, our brain tells us to think logical, think practical.
01:09So, in this situation, what are we supposed to do?
01:12Like, who are we supposed to listen to?
01:14Is it the intuition that is within us or the brain that is trying to convey something to us?
01:23You have to, first of all, consider the reality of what you are passionate about.
01:38The questioner is saying that in moments of decision making, do we go with our passion or with our logic and rationality, as the mind suggests it to us?
01:53So, I begin with passion.
02:00First of all, inquire into it and that should be the first thing because one is obviously biased towards her passion.
02:12Even if the mind is suggesting other things, we all feel like following the course of our passion.
02:21Since passion appeals so much to us and we feel like leaning towards it very automatically, why not figure out the truth of the passion?
02:39What makes you passionate about something?
02:46From where did one pick up her passion?
02:51Was one always passionate about such a thing?
02:56Because, you see, there are certain decisions that require a lot of investment.
03:06Sometimes, when you decide to follow the direction of your passion, it may consume a lot of your time, your energy and also the decision might be not easily reversible.
03:23So, before you commit yourself to any such thing, especially the thing you feel strongly passionate about, it is important to inquire a little.
03:39Is my passion arising from something that I deeply realize or is it arising from something I am influenced by?
04:00Because, once something takes the name of your passion, we usually just ignore asking what its real source is.
04:19I am imploring you to ask, is this passion really my passion or have I borrowed it from somewhere?
04:30In India, for example, a lot of people would be passionate about the sport of cricket.
04:41A lot of people are passionate about movies.
04:45Would you be passionate about the same sport?
04:50Were you born in Brazil or Russia?
04:56Or even in China or in the US?
05:01So, is this passion then really yours?
05:04Till your class 12th, you lived at a certain place and there was a certain environment.
05:15And then let's say you come over to Bangaluru.
05:20And here the environment is totally different and it captivates you.
05:27There is a lot of glamour, glids, attraction.
05:32It starts possessing you.
05:34And certain elements of your environment you start feeling very strongly about.
05:44And you start saying, this is what I really want.
05:47Now, is that what you really want or is that what you have been made to really want?
05:55Is that me or the forces acting upon me?
06:02It's a very crucial question, especially in the life of young people.
06:09It must be that way.
06:11Unfortunately, often it is not.
06:14We do not give it the importance it deserves, this question.
06:19These feelings, these passions, where have I gathered them from?
06:25We believe and it's just a hollow belief that whatever we feel is something internal to us.
06:36That all feelings arise from an internal point and we want to call that point as the heart or something.
06:43No.
06:45Most of that which we feel and most of our thoughts, they are deeply influenced things.
06:55It's like somebody is controlling us via a remote control from the outside.
07:04And we are dancing to an external tune, singing somebody else's song.
07:12We also feel that the song and dance is our own.
07:27It is not.
07:29And because it is not your own, very soon you will be disillusioned.
07:37Very soon you will find no sense in that music, in that dance, in that passion, in that feeling, in that attraction.
07:49All that will lose meaning.
07:52And then what will happen?
07:54Because we are disappointed with one external influence, we simply become open and available to another external influence.
08:06And then something else comes and possesses us.
08:10And for a while, it gives us hope.
08:13We start calling the new feeling, the new passion, the new whatever as our own.
08:21So passion is a wonderful thing.
08:26I really want more people have the courage to follow their passion.
08:33But as I say that, I also realize that in the name of passion, all kinds of conditionings and influences and therefore bondages operate.
08:44Conditioned passion is deeply dangerous.
08:48There would be nobody right now in this auditorium who would not be passionate about a thing or two.
08:55All of us have our own pet passions.
09:00The problem is they are neither our own nor are they our pets.
09:05You call something your pet only when you control it, right?
09:10A pet dog.
09:13Our passions are not controlled by us.
09:16Instead they control us.
09:17How are they our pet passions?
09:19And they are not ours.
09:22It's like we have been hypnotized and something totally external.
09:27Something totally unrelated to our own reality has entered us, captivated and possessed us.
09:40And so deeply that we do not remember or realize that there was a point when this meant nothing to me.
09:49And there will be a point when I will be disillusioned from this same very thing.
09:55But at this moment I am captured, I am hypnotized.
10:01I am so captured I have started calling this as my passion.
10:05No, that is not your passion.
10:08You will drop it.
10:10And when that moment comes, there is a lot of pain.
10:14Not only is there a lot of pain, already a lot of wastage has happened.
10:19And that wastage cannot be recovered then.
10:23Therefore the advice is too prompt.
10:26Yes, go the way of your passion.
10:28Logic must be used to determine how to succeed in your passion.
10:36Logic does not come first.
10:38Obviously passion comes first.
10:40The use of intellect is to find the way to the destination you are passionate about.
10:47The destination has to be determined by passion.
10:50Logic has to be used to find the route to that destination.
10:54True.
10:55Fully agree.
10:57But there is a great danger when we say this.
11:01And I am repeating this.
11:02Because that which you call as your passion is mostly a false passion.
11:08We keep falling in love.
11:12We keep slipping this way, that way.
11:16And then when we stumble, fall, get hurt.
11:20We get up and say, I don't know what happened to me.
11:25Was I drunk or something?
11:29It's a nice realization.
11:30It's just that we don't stay with it.
11:33We realize that the last affair was a bad one.
11:37And then we walk into another one of the same kind.
