When Buddha Was Abused... || Acharya Prashant

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00:00So there is the man who comes to the Buddha and he is doing abuses and he also spits on the Buddha's face.

00:05The Buddha does not react. So people around him, they get angry. The Buddha is calm.

00:10The Buddha says, he cannot do anything to me without my consent.

00:13Yes, he did abuse, but I was not abused. I have not gone down.

00:18He abused, but I was not abused. Nothing can happen to me without my consent.

00:24If someone has fallen, it is not you, but the other one.

00:26The very notion of respect, honor has to be understood in a deeper way.