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.