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00:00It is a profound honor to have the renowned teacher and philosopher Acharya Prasanth amongst us today.
00:08A social reformer and educator of true spirituality in the world, Acharya Prasanth speaks strongly for female empowerment, production of the natural world, compassion for animals, Vedantic wisdom for living rightly and campaigns against superstition.
00:26He leads the global movement of freedom and liberation from the societal chains that pull us away from truth and peacefulness.
00:34With more than 15 million followers on social media, Acharya Prasanth has been inspiring people with his profound teachings and insights for many years.
00:45His teachings are known for the depth, clarity and relevance to the challenges of our times.
00:51Through his teachings, he guides people towards a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them, helping them to find purpose and meaning in their lives.
01:01Please join me in welcoming Acharya Prasanth with a big round of applause.
01:22Sir, kindly place the stage to address the audience.
01:29Sir, when it is said that a person or a place has positive or negative vibrations, you strongly disagree with each other.
01:45Sir, when it is said that a person or a place has positive or negative vibrations, you strongly disagree with this point of view.
01:52Why is it so?
01:54The reason is philosophical.
01:56The reason has its roots in Vedant.
02:00But I will narrate it in layman's language.
02:06You remember the witch hunt?
02:13Have you read of it?
02:15Medieval Europe?
02:17Huh?
02:18Women were declared to be witches and burnt alive, stoned, executed by various means, the
02:33most ghastly kind of means possible.
02:37And what was the justification that was offered?
02:42I sense that the woman has evil.
02:49In today's language, they would have said, she is sending me negative vibes.
02:55She is sending me bad vibrations or as the culture to say, low frequency vibrations.
03:06Hmm?
03:07Or her aura is bad.
03:10That was the kind of reason that was offered.
03:16Yes, it is true that often when you look at a person or a place, you experience a certain feeling.
03:32In fact, that always happens.
03:35Even if you look at a stranger, there is a certain reaction that arises from within.
03:39Yes, that does happen.
03:42But please tell me, as students of science, does that necessarily have to do with the object
03:51that you are viewing or experiencing?
03:54Or does it have more to do with your own prejudices, patterns, attitudes, way of looking at the world,
04:04bent off mind?
04:05Please tell me.
04:06The moment you talk of people as emitting good waves or bad waves, positive or negative vibrations,
04:19you completely stop looking at your own self.
04:27You start saying, if I am experiencing something, it is because of the object of experience.
04:37Please do something about the sound, there is a lot of echo.
04:42You take this.
04:45I look at something and what do I declare?
04:48The feeling that I am experiencing upon coming in contact with that particular object is because of that object.
04:59I am nowhere in the picture.
05:01I am neutral.
05:03I am transparent.
05:04I am nobody.
05:07The thing is, what you are experiencing is totally subjective to you.
05:13It is your own feeling.
05:16But you are imposing your feeling upon that object.
05:23You look at a person and you say, this fellow gives me bad vibes.
05:28Now those bad vibes are your feelings about that person.
05:34But you are pretending as if your feelings are his quality.
05:41Now those are your feelings.
05:44Why don't you admit that?
05:46Why are you superimposing your experience upon that object?
05:52And the experience is extremely subjective.
05:55The same person who gives you negative vibes, gives very positive vibes to somebody else.
06:03Right?
06:04So what you are experiencing has very little to do with the object.
06:08It has much more to do with who you are or what you have become.
06:12Are you getting it?
06:17Think of a particular color.
06:20The same color gives very sacred vibes to one community.
06:26And very profane vibes to another one.
06:29Does that happen or not?
06:31Think of a place of worship.
06:33A religious fellow belonging to a certain denomination would say,
06:40Whenever I come close to this place, I experience divinity.
06:45You experience divinity only because you are already conditioned to experience that way.
06:52A person who does not subscribe to religion or believes in some other religious path,
07:00experiences nothing of the sort that you do.
07:04Actually, there is nothing magical or special about that religious place
07:11that appears to give you sacred vibes.
07:16But then that's the culture today to not to look at yourself and look only at the world.
07:22And this philosophy is called materialism.
07:27Do you see this?
07:30The philosophy that says do not look at yourself, look only at the world.
07:36That philosophy is called materialism.
07:38The material is the truth.
07:43And the second truth is who you are.
07:46So there are two truths in materialism.
07:48It's a dualistic philosophy.
07:51It says you exist to consume the world.
07:54You exist to consume material.
07:56And consumption of material will give you happiness.
07:59So in the name of spirituality,
08:03in the name of vibes and energies and auras,
08:06what is being propagated is rank materialism.
08:12That's the philosophy of today.
08:15Vedanta on the other hand says something very sensible.
08:19It says,
08:20Son, you are the source of all your experiences.
08:23If you experience something,
08:27the experiencer is the experience.
08:32J. Krishnamurthy very famously said,
08:35the observer is the observed.
08:37And modern physics, we all know, says very clearly,
08:42that you cannot observe elementary phenomena without interfering with them.
08:53Which means there is nothing called objectivity.
08:59When you look at the macro level, then you say,
09:02just because I am looking at that wall, that wall does not change.
09:07Yes.
09:09At the macro level, at the Newtonian level, that holds good.
09:13The object of observation does not change
09:18with respect to the observer.
09:20The observed object is not a function of the observer.
09:24But when you go to the elementary level,
09:28to the minutest level possible,
09:37then it is very clear
09:40that observation changes the observed phenomena,
09:45the observed object.
09:48Which means nothing holds its own properties.
09:52The properties that anything holds are actually a function
09:58of the observer of those properties.
10:03If I put it in layman's language,
10:05your girlfriend holds certain properties for you.
10:08She does not hold those properties for her neighbour
10:10or her father or her brother.
10:14Is that true or not?
10:16Obviously, yes.
10:19But when you talk of vibes and all,
10:21then you want to say,
10:22no, no, no.
10:23I am not prejudiced.
10:24I am not conditioned.
10:25I am not flawed.
10:29That fellow sends me bad vibes.
10:32Well, that fellow sends sacred vibes to somebody else.
10:37Don't you see that your perception is totally subjective?
10:40But we do not realise that.
10:43So, this cult of vibrations and auras and energies and positivity and negativity,
10:52it is an enemy of self-observation.
10:56It will not allow you to look at yourself.
10:58Whatever is happening within,
11:00you will think it is happening as a result of some external happening.
11:08You will keep looking outwards.
11:11And that's a great damage that this cult inflicts on you.
11:15It is a mark of wisdom to be a little detached to your experiences.
11:26To not to take your experiences as the truth.
11:29Because when you are taking the experience as the truth,
11:34you are actually taking the experiencer as truthful.
11:39The fact is that the experiencer is a very, very corrupted condition,
11:46actually fictitious entity that exists within.
11:48Classically called as the?
11:51It is called as the?
11:54Ego.
11:57And the ego is a product of physical and social conditioning.
12:03The ego is the experiencer.
12:06Which means all your experiences are with respect to your ego.
12:11That's why your experiences keep changing.
12:14Changing.
12:17So frequently.
12:19And often so totally.
12:27Are you getting it?
12:28So to believe in your experiences then you say,
12:30Oh, I experienced bad vibes.
12:33That's why that fellow is bad.
12:35To believe in your experiences is to worship your ego.
12:38Because the experiencer is the ego.
12:40It is the cult of the ego.
12:42And such a cult is profanity itself.
12:47Such a cult is directly opposed to any kind of inwardness, wisdom or spirituality.
12:57And when this thing happens, then there is a lot of violence,
13:02lot of ignorance and obviously a lot of sorrow.
13:05If you don't want to suffer, do not take yourself seriously.
13:11What do I mean by yourself?
13:14The ego itself.
13:16The experiencer.
13:17Do not take them very seriously.
13:19You very well know they are a product of your, of the influences you experienced,
13:25the education you went through, the family you came from,
13:28the indoctrination that you received.
13:32That's where the experiencer comes from.
13:35Every single experience is changing the experiencer.
13:40How can you rely on the experiencer?
13:43And that's what all wisdom is about.
13:45All wisdom is about.
13:46You are not the experiencer.
13:52You are not the experiencer.
13:56You are not the experienced object.
13:58You are not the experiencer.
14:00And you have nothing to do with the experience.
14:01You have to stay clear of this triad.
14:05Then who am I?
14:07That's what is to be sought.
14:10But what is certain is that I cannot take myself so seriously.
14:14If I take myself very seriously, then I have turned into a worshipper of the ego.
14:20And that's very problematic.
14:22That's very problematic because it pushes me deep into suffering.
14:25That's all.
14:27Who was the questioner?
14:28Is this more or less clear?
14:34Any follow-ups on this?
14:37Don't you all wonder?
14:41Do the philosophical texts
14:46talk of vibrations and auras and energies?
14:49Do they?
14:51No, they don't.
14:52Go to the Sankhikadaka
14:57or Yog Sutra
14:59or the Upanishads
15:01or Nyaya Sutra.
15:05Do you find such fancy terms there?
15:08Or their equivalents in Sanskrit?
15:11No, you don't find them.
15:13Because they were thinkers.
15:15They are not foolish people to believe in all these things.
15:22More recently,
15:24do you have a Ram Krishna Paramhans
15:27or a Vivekanand
15:28or a Raman Maharshi
15:30or a Jay Krishna Murthy talking of vibrations?
15:31Did any wise fellow ever talk of vibrations or energy
15:38or all these stupid things?
15:40No.
15:42It's only in the last 20-30 years
15:45that this kind of thing has come up.
15:48And a lot of that is because of spiritual illiteracy.
15:52And also because we don't know science.
15:55So we start believing in these things.
15:57Somebody says negative energy,
15:58negative vibrations.
15:59Beats me.
16:00What is negative vibrations?
16:02I once asked, can you please demonstrate to me
16:04by way of an equation?
16:07What would a negative vibration really look like?
16:09Negative with respect to what?
16:10What is the origin?
16:12All positive and negative is with respect to some origin.
16:15How do you define the origin here, please?
16:17Sir, the origin is the ego.
16:18Ego.
16:20What pleases the ego, you call as positive.
16:23What displeases the ego, you call as negative.
16:27India beat Australia today in a test match.
16:31It was positive for the?
16:35Indian.
16:36It was negative for the?
16:38There is no absolute truth in positivity or negativity.
16:41It is all with respect to who you have become.
16:45And what you have become today would change tomorrow, would it not?
16:48Please tell me.
16:50Something that you absolutely loved two years back
16:55is something that you so viciously hate today.
16:58Does that happen or not?
17:00So what is positive and what is negative?
17:05But, but, we just fall for it.
17:09Just fall for it.
17:10Low frequency vibrations.
17:11What exactly?
17:12How exactly are you calculating the vibrations, the vibrational frequency of a person?
17:26And if you want, indeed, if you want to go by the wave-particle duality and posit that all particles are waves as well,
17:38then we must understand that only very elementary particles like electrons can have any kind of substantial wavelength or frequency associated with them.
17:48Right?
17:49We know all that.
17:50Class 12.
17:52Forget about a human being weighing 60 kilograms.
17:59Can some smart fellow from here who remembers his physics calculate even the wavelength of a tennis ball or a cricket ball?
18:07Can you?
18:11Can you?
18:12You can.
18:13There's the formula.
18:15But the wavelength would be of a dimension that you'd rather want to ignore.
18:21And here we are talking just of a small ball.
18:23And when you talk of a human being weighing 60 or 80 kilograms, what kind of vibration are you imagining?
18:32No.
18:47Good we have started with this question.
18:48I'm pretty sure that we have many amongst us here, even in the IIT fraternity, who believe in such things.
18:58And all that is quite unfortunate.
19:00Yeah?
19:01And I also know that in spite of me having said what I just did,
19:08we would probably continue to believe in such things.
19:11Because there is something within us that just doesn't want to accept facts,
19:17that just doesn't want to live in understanding and wisdom.
19:22It's a very difficult thing to fight.
19:24But anyway, yes.
19:25Any follow-ups on this?
19:29And let the follow-ups be very closely related to the topic at hand, please.
19:30Namaste.
19:31Namaste.
19:32Aacharya Ji.
19:33Yes.
19:34Namaste.
19:35So I have one follow-up question.
19:36So I also don't believe in higher frequency.
19:37or lower frequency.
19:38vibrance.
19:39vibration.
19:40vibration.
19:41vibration.
19:42But I have one question.
19:43so
19:44I have one question.
19:45And let the follow-ups be very closely related to the topic at hand, please.
19:57Namaste Acharya Ji.
20:01So I have one follow-up question.
20:03So I also don't believe in higher frequency or lower vibration, but I have one question.
20:10So if I meet with certain set of people, I feel very much excited.
20:16And if I meet with other people, I feel very much demotivated or exhausted.
20:22Then how will you explain this?
20:25What is this then?
20:26It is your own inclination.
20:30It's your own tendency.
20:32Let's name the first group of people as A.
20:36A motivates you.
20:39Let's call the second people as B.
20:42The presence or experience of B demotivates you.
20:46Does A demotivate everybody?
20:49Does that happen?
20:51Does that happen?
20:55And does the presence of B motivate everybody?
20:59It is something within you specifically that gets motivated or demotivated.
21:05Everybody else will have a totally different experience.
21:10Think of a flag.
21:13If you think of one particular country's flag.
21:16The moment you look at that flag, you will experience what you call as positivity, right?
21:22There are 200 plus countries in the world, and they all have their flags and national anthems, right?
21:32And when the citizen of a country hears his anthem, what does he experience usually?
21:41What does he experience?
21:42Come on, please.
21:44Positivity.
21:45And when an enemy country hears the same anthem, what do they experience?
21:56What do they experience?
21:59Now, what if you change your citizenship?
22:02Tell me.
22:05That does happen, right?
22:06People in large numbers, in several lakhs, give up citizenships, and that's happening
22:16all over the world.
22:18So today, one particular sight or sound used to be very positive for you.
22:23Tomorrow, another thing will become very positive for you.
22:26Now, please tell me, is the thing or the sound positive, or is it about your own mind?
22:33It's your own mind.
22:34Now, do not allege that the thing has certain properties.
22:41The thing is just a thing.
22:44The thing is just a thing.
22:45It is neither positive nor negative.
22:48With respect to the thing, you experience something because you have an attitude towards
22:53the thing.
22:55Because you are biased for or against, because you are prejudiced, or because you are inclined
23:01towards the thing.
23:07Have inwardness, please.
23:09Inwardness means, if I have a certain experience, I will look at myself.
23:15That's what comes first.
23:16I come first.
23:19Later on, I'll also look at the object or the stimulus that arouse the experience.
23:25Fine.
23:26That is okay.
23:27I'm not saying I'll ignore totally the object in front of me.
23:31No.
23:32It's not to be totally ignored.
23:33But the first thing to be investigated is the self.
23:37And that's the basis of all wisdom, all philosophy.
23:41That's Vedanta.
23:42And that's also common sense.
23:45Does that satisfy you?
23:47Where are you?
23:50Does that help?
24:01Good evening, sir.
24:02And thank you for debunking the vibration theory.
24:05Sir, is this same concept, same thing related to people selling things like stones and all?
24:16Some people say, if I keep this stone, say they buy something, a stone or some motive and they
24:22get some good vibe, good aura from that particular stone or any object.
24:27Stone.
24:28Stone or any object.
24:29Right, right, right.
24:30So is it the same?
24:31Right, right.
24:32Yes, yes.
24:33Same phenomena happening in the mind.
24:34And all these things, they all belong to the same field.
24:39A thing is a thing.
24:42A thing is just a thing.
24:47If you talk of a thing like a bullet, I understand.
24:50It hurts your physicality.
24:52If you talk of a thing like a medical pill, we again understand because it has a certain
24:58effect on your physicality.
25:01And the physicality is a fact.
25:04But when you talk of a thing affecting your mind, then mind you that it is the mind that
25:12decides what to be affected by.
25:15The body has no choice.
25:18Mind is another name for choice.
25:22If you bring a flame to your arm, right, a torch.
25:31The skin will not have a choice in reacting to the heat.
25:37Doesn't depend whether it is the skin of the Buddha or Krishna.
25:42If there is a bacteria or a virus, it will affect the saint and the sinner alike.
25:50Because the body is just a body.
25:53Right?
25:54Ramana Maharshi, Ramakrishna, they both died of cancer.
26:00And legend has it that an arrow pierced the foot of Krishna and he had to go.
26:11The Buddha too died of stomach ailment or some other ailment, some other physical disorder.
26:19So the body is the body.
26:20It does not matter whose body it is.
26:24But the mind is a totally different thing.
26:27The mind is consciousness and consciousness is synonymous with choice.
26:33Consciousness decides.
26:35And when you say, I have no choice.
26:37She came in front of me and I just went bonkers.
26:43Then you are defying and denying consciousness.
26:46And if you are not conscious, then you do not deserve to be called human.
26:51Why do we worry people when they are dead?
26:55Because they cannot have consciousness anymore.
26:59Even the possibility of them ever becoming conscious again in the future is now zero.
27:06So we say, fine, dispose the body.
27:10What is consciousness?
27:12What is the mind?
27:14Mind is the power to choose, power to be.
27:18You can decide what is right.
27:21You can inquire.
27:22You can investigate.
27:24You can figure out.
27:26One thing appears very appealing to you today.
27:31We are not animals to be just drawn towards it.
27:35As intelligent human beings, what do we do?
27:38We go and we investigate.
27:40We say, fine, this thing appears quite lucrative.
27:43It is attracting me.
27:44But what is it really about?
27:46So you investigate, you investigate.
27:48And if your investigation tells you that the thing is not how it appears to be, then what
27:56do you do with the thing?
27:58You drop it.
27:59So you have choice.
28:01Are you getting it?
28:05A stone can affect you only if you first of all already believe that it is going to affect
28:16you.
28:17So it is not the stone that is having an effect on you.
28:20It is your belief that is having an effect on you.
28:24But we don't see this.
28:25We think it's about the stone.
28:26No.
28:27It's not about that.
28:28It's about?
28:29That's Vedanta.
28:30It's not about?
28:31That.
28:32It's about this.
28:33And those who have known have gone on to say that this is the source of all that.
28:45So never be too bothered with that, that, that, that, that.
28:49Always go within.
28:50Ask yourself, why is this thing affecting me?
28:52There is nothing special in the thing.
28:56There is nothing special in any kind of stone or Rudraksha or anything.
29:00But if you feel affected, it is because you have been strongly conditioned to believe
29:07that way.
29:08And there are a lot of people who have vested interests in conditioning you, in making you
29:14believe that a certain crystal or stone will have a beneficial effect on your life.
29:22Or if you wear a certain bracelet or whatever, then your life will improve.
29:28Often they are the ones selling those stones, right?
29:37And if you have interest or stake, some kind of benefit you are drawing from propagating
29:53misbelief and superstition, then nothing stops you from turning an entire population superstitious.
30:03It's not without reason that people want everybody to turn superstitious.
30:10Because people are controllable when they are superstitious.
30:15You can command people, you can make them do as you wish, if you can make them superstitious.
30:22Superstition is just conditioning, right?
30:23If you can condition people to be a certain way, to think a certain way, to hold certain
30:29beliefs as truth, then those people can be enslaved.
30:35And that's what you want to become.
30:36They are master.
30:37They are master.
30:38It's power that you are after.
30:43Don't let them have power.
30:45Your concern should be your freedom.
30:48As human beings and especially as young people, you should value nothing higher than freedom.
30:55So, you spoke about vibrations, about stones.
31:11So I find this as abuse of science, as in to justify superstitions and there are more other
31:20types of abuse of science, like people are using science to justify not only just superstitions,
31:27but profit mongering and misconducts even in the science.
31:32So but there was a time when science was seen similar to spirituality because it asks the same,
31:40like it is the outcome of the same question, just directed towards outside.
31:45So from such a state, now it has reached to abusive state.
31:50So how has this happened?
31:52That is my question to you.
31:53It was always this way.
31:56Think of Galileo.
31:57Think of Newton.
32:01Think of the attitude of the church towards them.
32:03It was always this way.
32:06It's just that today it's all the more tragic.
32:12Because we have a vast body of scientific literature available, something that we never had in history.
32:24So if people were superstitious historically, that is probably pardonable, right?
32:31Because the way of science, the discoveries of science, the proofs that science offers were
32:39not freely available to them.
32:41Well it's understandable if they had irrational beliefs.
32:46But today when all those things are freely available, there is the internet, literacy is
32:54at an all time high.
32:57You can access whatever scientific discipline you wish to.
33:03All that is available and still people are superstitious.
33:06That's tragic.
33:07That's something that must make all of you wonder.
33:13Because we often think that if science progresses then all kinds of stupidities in the human species
33:26will be taken care of automatically.
33:27Right?
33:28That has been the hope.
33:29Right?
33:30That has been the hope.
33:31We say a fellow is educated.
33:33We say a fellow is well read.
33:35We say the fellow knows science.
33:37So he would probably not be superstitious.
33:40But that has not come to pass.
33:43Instead we find even people well versed in science being quite superstitious.
33:52Because today we received a message from a person.
33:56I was at IIT Roorkee a few months back.
33:59So somebody wrote from there and said my father is a professor here.
34:04And he's been refusing proposals for my sister one after the other.
34:13For some reason related to the kundali, the horoscope.
34:20So I don't know what he wrote.
34:22Either she is mangalic, the fellow is mangalic, something.
34:28So how is it possible that even education has not been able to take care of these things?
34:36If you will think on this, the answer will scare you.
34:41The answer is that there sits within all of us a very ancient and terrible beast.
34:50Very ancient beast.
34:54If you want to look disparagingly at that beast, then that beast has been called as the unconscious
35:01by Freud.
35:06I have been calling that beast as the inner animal, just the animal, the forest, the jungle.
35:15India has called that beast as Aham Vritti.
35:21And when you want to look at how understanding that beast can result in your liberation, then
35:35you want to address it with a more favourable name.
35:43So in that case, it has been called as Prakrati.
35:52And when you realise that going close to Prakrati, which is your own primordial nature, will result
36:01in your liberation, then you worship Prakrati by the name of Devi.
36:12And India has had Prakrati worship and Devi worship since long and for a good reason.
36:22So, what we know of ourselves is the conscious part, right?
36:32We know of ourselves not too much.
36:42We do not realise where the bulk of our existence comes from.
36:51You realise that you are angry after you are angry.
36:59You do not realise, for example, where your instincts and feelings come from.
37:06And that's the bigger part of the self inside.
37:11And that self inside is very, very ancient.
37:15And by ancient, I do not mean sacred.
37:18I simply mean animalistic.
37:23And it wants to remain that way.
37:27See human beings have made rapid progress.
37:31Only 70,000 years ago did we begin to think.
37:36That's not much.
37:40And that's when we got our current name, Homo sapiens sapiens, when we started thinking,
37:45when we started displaying some sapiens.
37:51But we are far older than 70,000 years, right?
37:55We are millions of years old.
37:58And 70,000 years is nothing compared to how old we actually are.
38:04So it's almost like in a flash, in a split second.
38:11We have become cultured and civilised externally.
38:15But internally the old thing has continued.
38:18Internally we are still animals.
38:22Internally we are still animals.
38:23Our instincts, our feelings belong to the animals.
38:26We share them with the animals.
38:29Attachment you find in animals, you find in human beings as well.
38:32Jealousy, possessiveness, you find all across the jungle, also in cities.
38:41You find somebody covetous, you find somebody violet, you find that in the jungle as well.
38:51Human beings are so territorial, fighting for land.
38:55Look at Russia and Ukraine.
38:58And look at the dogs in front of your house.
39:02They too keep fighting for land.
39:04And dogs get very angry.
39:07If some alien dog comes and starts squatting on the space they call as their own, right?
39:14So we are doing all the things that animals do and that's what fundamentally drives us.
39:22One very strong thing that drives all animals is biology, right?
39:34Those who have tried to understand it sometimes have said, it's just the sexual urge.
39:42Or they have said, well, it is libido.
39:45Or Elan Vytel.
39:49But that's whatever, however you call it.
39:53It's something that you share with animals.
39:56Look at the human male rushing after the human female and doing that all his life.
40:02And look at the monkey running after the female monkey and doing that all his life.
40:07How are these two any different?
40:08And these are our primary motivators, are they not?
40:13Grabbing some land, grabbing some authority, getting some sex, possessing the object of sex.
40:23Continuing to live.
40:26That's what Darwinian competitiveness was all about, right?
40:32You want to live and the other one also wants to live.
40:34Let's see who succeeds in living.
40:36Now that's what animals compete for.
40:40That's what we also compete for.
40:42Let's see who succeeds in living.
40:44I'll kill you.
40:46And if we will cooperate, we will cooperate only to the extent our interests overlap.
40:53Otherwise, we'll be at war.
40:57So that's the animal within us.
40:59And it is that animal that is superstitious.
41:01When you are being superstitious, when you are being superstitious, you are simply displaying that you might have come out of the jungle, but the jungle has still not gone out of you.
41:20Getting it?
41:21Does the animal have thought?
41:26No.
41:29The animal only has his physical conditioning.
41:34Human beings are human beings.
41:35We said because
41:36just a few thousand years ago, we started.
41:42We started.
41:43The superstitious mind is the one that prefers not to think, not to know, not to understand.
41:53It just wants to believe and says, well, you know, if everybody has been believing this way, it must be right.
42:01Who am I to disagree?
42:02Is that not the favorite argument of the superstitious ones?
42:09But when all the people have been believing in it since centuries, there must be something in it.
42:14And if you tell them what you are saying is unscientific, they say, oh, but science does not know anything.
42:20So your little science is a baby in front of our ancient civilizations.
42:26First thing I want is that mobile phones must be snatched away from such people.
42:30If they have no respect for science, they should not be allowed to enjoy the fruits of science.
42:38Let them walk barefoot in the jungle.
42:41They should not be using cars, mobile phones, computers.
42:44They should not even be wearing clothes.
42:46The kind of disrespect people display towards science.
42:50Unbearable.
42:53Have you not heard phrases like these?
42:55Oh, but your science has so much still to know.
42:58Oh, but your science has till now explored only 0.01% of the universe.
43:04Your science is nothing.
43:06My superstition is everything.
43:09Babaji will tell something much higher than science.
43:14Babaji is someone who could not clear even his class 8 science exams.
43:17And since then, he has been so humiliated that he has been routinely abusing science.
43:25That's the fundamental reason.
43:27I am saying all this because I think you will be a receptive audience.
43:43I am hopeful I am talking to people who have not used science just as a means to clear the J and earn placements.
43:53I hope science is not just a subject but a matter of attitude.
43:59Right?
44:00Never keep your thinking faculty away.
44:03Ask, ask, keep inquiring.
44:06Always seek to understand.
44:09Belief is not the answer to anything you come across.
44:15Even if you cannot come to a conclusion in your inquiry,
44:20it's far better to just stay in the process of investigation.
44:25Even if your entire life you cannot come to a definite answer, it is alright.
44:31But never come to a false answer.
44:34Never settle down too easily.
44:37Yes?
44:39Yes.
44:39You see, had I been going by my feeling,
44:51I wouldn't have been standing here in front of you.
44:56My father,
44:59who was just not my father but also
45:03my teacher,
45:11he left me on the third of this month.
45:16There was no way I could have travelled so far to come to you.
45:21That's what my feeling said.
45:25In fact,
45:26my foundation had communicated to your organising committee that I won't be able to come.
45:34But then
45:34we were told that it's a
45:37group of enthusiastic
45:40seekers
45:41who will have very
45:43relevant questions
45:45and who really want to benefit.
45:48So I put my feeling aside and came here.
45:51Hmm?
45:52I'm pretty sure if I
45:56I'm pretty sure if I
46:05consult a whole lot of
46:08pundits and other people,
46:09some of them
46:10might even suggest that
46:11it is not proper
46:12to travel so soon.
46:15Especially to the
46:16Purab Disha.
46:18And that's how things are.
46:24One direction is sacred.
46:27The
46:27other direction is to be avoided.
46:32So many other things.
46:39A ritualistic mind becomes insensitive and incapable of love.
46:44Do you see that?
46:45When you are superstitious,
46:48you turn insensitive.
46:54Don't let that happen to you.
46:56Yes, question.
46:57I'm really sorry about your father,
47:07but I just don't want to stop at a false answer as you have told.
47:11Like your first topic was about negative vibes.
47:14Once, like long time ago,
47:16when humanity was still uncivilised,
47:19we were scared of dark places
47:21because there might be like wild animals
47:23sitting in there.
47:24So yeah,
47:24based upon all those experiences
47:26they had,
47:28they built up like,
47:29like they started getting negative vibes
47:32from those dark places.
47:33So like,
47:35if they didn't believe in those negative vibes,
47:38natural selection
47:39would have
47:40eliminated them.
47:42Yeah, that's true.
47:43But that's a matter of the past.
47:44That's a thing of history.
47:45You're very right.
47:46You see,
47:47what he's pointing at is
47:49that instinct
47:50does not come from nowhere.
47:53If, for example,
47:54even a small kid
47:56is afraid of the dark,
47:58right?
47:58Small babies are afraid of the dark.
48:00Now, nobody taught
48:01the infant
48:03to be afraid of the dark.
48:05But the infant
48:06is nevertheless
48:07definitely afraid of the dark.
48:08Why?
48:09The reason is evolutionary.
48:12Our eyes
48:13are unable
48:14to have
48:15any power
48:17in the dark,
48:17right?
48:18So human beings
48:20have been
48:20since millions of years
48:22hunted in the dark.
48:25The nights used to be
48:26terrible hours.
48:29So the fear of the dark
48:31has gone deep
48:32into our psyche
48:33and that fear
48:34has helped us.
48:36Because when you are afraid,
48:38that turns you more alert,
48:40right?
48:41Or something bad can happen.
48:42Let's group up.
48:44Where is the wood?
48:46Let's light the fire.
48:48It's dark.
48:49Where are the kids?
48:50Let's get all of them in.
48:52It's dark.
48:53And that has helped us survive.
48:55So that is alright.
48:56The reason was evolutionary
48:57and that is okay.
48:58But today,
49:00do you need to live
49:01by evolutionary reasons?
49:03Remember
49:04that human beings
49:05have come too far,
49:07too swiftly,
49:08rather too suddenly
49:10ahead
49:11of the
49:12evolutionary curve.
49:14We talked of that,
49:14right?
49:15We have
49:16we have leaped ahead
49:17and those
49:18kinds of reasons
49:20were anyway
49:21quite imperfect.
49:23I'll tell you
49:24the kind of
49:25conditioning
49:26that the psyche
49:27experiences.
49:28if in your childhood
49:31you have been
49:34routinely smacked
49:35by
49:37your
49:38classmates
49:40who were
49:41fair in color,
49:43then it's proven
49:45that you will
49:45continue to have
49:47a bias
49:47against
49:48fair people
49:49for
49:50many
49:51decades
49:52thereafter.
49:53And you will
49:55not even know
49:55why you dislike
49:56fair people.
49:57The simple reason is
49:58when you were
49:583, 4, 5, 6
50:00years old,
50:01then you were
50:01routinely being
50:02beaten up by
50:03fair looking kids.
50:05And that has
50:06gone deep into
50:07your psyche.
50:08And so now
50:09all your life
50:10you will be
50:10biased against
50:11fair people.
50:12But because
50:13you do not know
50:13why,
50:14so you will
50:14come up with
50:15very rational
50:16looking arguments.
50:18You will say
50:19you know
50:19why are people
50:20fair?
50:21Because their
50:21skin is not
50:22absorbing
50:22sunlight.
50:24That's why
50:25the pigment
50:26is not
50:26getting activated.
50:27And if
50:28their skin
50:29is not
50:30absorbing
50:30sunlight,
50:31that's an
50:31insult to
50:32the sun
50:32god.
50:34And I
50:34cannot tolerate
50:35someone who
50:35insults my
50:36sun god.
50:37So I will
50:37kill all
50:38fair looking
50:38people.
50:40Now that's
50:40the argument
50:41you will
50:41come up with.
50:42And that's
50:43how all
50:44rationalizations
50:45and
50:45justifications
50:46are.
50:48But the
50:49simple reason
50:50is that
50:51in your
50:51unconscious
50:52sits
50:53a very
50:53old
50:54experience.
50:55And here
50:55I have
50:56talked
50:56of an
50:57experience
50:58that you
50:58have had
50:59in your
51:00lifetime.
51:01The fact
51:02is that
51:02your cells
51:03carry the
51:04experience
51:04of entire
51:05mankind.
51:05mind.
51:07So all
51:08those things
51:08that were
51:09happening
51:09then are
51:10there with
51:11you even
51:11today.
51:11But you
51:12need not
51:13live by
51:13that.
51:14That's the
51:14reason why
51:15Vidhan
51:15continuously
51:16tells you
51:17see you
51:18are not
51:18the body.
51:20Naham
51:20they ask
51:20me.
51:21What is
51:22that supposed
51:22to tell you
51:24that you
51:25have no
51:25obligation to
51:26live by
51:27your bodily
51:27compulsions.
51:29That you
51:29have no
51:30obligation to
51:31live by
51:31your hormonal
51:32pressures.
51:33All that
51:34is the
51:34body.
51:34Right?
51:36The body
51:36might keep
51:37saying
51:37something.
51:38But please
51:39you are
51:42nothing but
51:44understanding.
51:45Bodo
51:45aham
51:45I am
51:46understanding.
51:48I am
51:49understanding.
51:50I am not
51:50someone who
51:51has to be
51:51necessarily
51:52driven by
51:53the bodily
51:54and ancient
51:55and historical
51:56compulsions.
51:57No I will
51:57not follow
51:57that.
51:58I am
51:58understanding.
51:59I will
52:00understand what's
52:00going on.
52:01The body
52:01might say
52:02sleep.
52:04But I
52:05know I
52:05have an
52:06exam tomorrow
52:06I won't
52:07sleep.
52:08The body
52:08has its
52:09own agenda
52:09and the
52:10agenda
52:10comes from
52:11evolution.
52:12The agenda
52:12of the
52:13body is
52:13continuity.
52:15Just secure
52:15itself and
52:16continue.
52:17Continue
52:18today and
52:19continue
52:20tomorrow in
52:20the form of
52:21kids.
52:22So that's
52:22what the
52:23body wants.
52:24That's all
52:24that the
52:25body wants.
52:26Eat and
52:27be married
52:27today and
52:28also have
52:29good sex
52:30and produce
52:3140 kids
52:32so that
52:32your DNA
52:33proliferates.
52:35The body
52:35wants nothing
52:36more than
52:36that.
52:37Now do
52:37you want
52:37to live
52:38as the
52:38body?
52:38Animals
52:39live as
52:39the body.
52:40And if
52:41you are
52:41living as
52:41the body
52:42then there
52:43is no
52:43scope of
52:45consciousness.
52:46And then
52:47one is no
52:48better than
52:48an animal.
52:50Right?
52:50I do
52:51not mean
52:52to disregard
52:52all your
52:53instincts and
52:53intuitions but
52:55you must
52:55know them
52:56as coming
52:57from stored
52:58experience of
52:59the past which
53:00might not be
53:01applicable today.
53:02Which might be
53:03totally invalid
53:03today.
53:04Also which
53:05might be valid
53:06today but
53:07needs to be
53:07disregarded in
53:08light of
53:09consciousness.
53:11Getting it?
53:12Hmm.
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