We are Destroying Ourselves! || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Cellphone addiction and loss of self-esteem || Acharya Prashant, at Cummins College, Nagpur (2022)

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00:00If we remain monkeys within, whatsoever comes to us, powers, rights, knowledge, technology,

00:07we will use it to our own detriment, our own destruction.

00:11But we don't understand this.

00:13We think just because we have something, it is for the better.

00:16No, not necessarily.

00:17It all depends on who you are.

00:20And that's the central Vedantic question.

00:22Who are you?

00:23You go back to the epics.

00:24You think of all the classical villains.

00:26Ravan, Kansa, Duryodhan, Hirana Kashyap.

00:30They had a lot.

00:31Ravan was the superpower of his times.

00:34Lanka of gold.

00:35Hirana Kashyap too had a lot.

00:37He had been gifted with blessings.

00:40Duryodhan was so powerful.

00:41Question is, what were these people using their power and knowledge and money for?

00:46Were they villains because they didn't have anything?

00:50Because they didn't have much?

00:52No.

00:52They had a lot but were operating whatever they had from a bad center.