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00:00Israel will say, you know, operating on this principle, have we attacked.
00:04And Iran will say, oh, we are against Zionism.
00:07And the US will say, it is for the sake of world peace that we are entering the war.
00:11So there is some principles.
00:13In the jungle, there is no principle really.
00:15The only principle is, I have to exist.
00:17Is it valid to, I mean, take an action which can completely destroy the other country?
00:22We are beasts. That's it.
00:24We are beasts with intellect, with nuclear scientists, with high IQs.
00:28We are beasts.
00:29There have been five mass extinctions till now.
00:33Almost everything was wiped out.
00:34Prakriti doesn't care.
00:35You are assuming these are conscious beings.
00:38And therefore, there is a moral angle to their actions.
00:41No, sir.
00:42All morality is superficial.
00:46Namaste Achareji.
00:48This is regarding the recent war which is happening.
00:50So we see that one country seems to have the entitlement to take the preemptive actions,
00:58to make sure that they do exist in future also because they have the existential fits or that's
01:04how they perceive it.
01:06If we look at the individual level or at the country level, then if we face a situation like
01:12this, then up to what extent we have the right hand to defend, they have that threat.
01:17Now, they have taken a preemptive action.
01:19Is it valid to, I mean, take an action which can completely destroy the other country?
01:25So you are trying to analyze the whole thing in a moral framework, whether it is right, what can be the outcome, to what extent can one go?
01:41Those are the questions you are posing.
01:43In Prakriti, morality does not exist.
01:52In Prakriti, in the animal world, morality doesn't exist.
01:59The animal world just strives for survival.
02:04And anything that threatens my survival, has to be obliterated.
02:11That's it.
02:11That's Prakriti for you.
02:14That's the plants.
02:17That's the microbes.
02:20That's the animals, the birds.
02:23That's the entire game of evolution.
02:24I have to survive.
02:27And for my survival, if somebody has to be wiped out, I will wipe him out.
02:32That's it.
02:32Simple.
02:33There is no morality really there.
02:35Though, being human beings, you want to frame it in moralistic terms.
02:40We want to kind of pretend that the action has some kind of moral basis to it.
02:49Hmm?
02:52But there is no moral basis.
02:54Really, there is no moral basis.
02:59So, they can do whatever they want.
03:00Obviously.
03:01Obviously.
03:02Though, whatever is done, would always be framed in principled terms.
03:11We are operating on this principle.
03:13We are operating on that principle.
03:15Iran, Israel, Hamas, Jordan, U.S.
03:23Pakistan, Pakistan, these are all going to be the parties there.
03:27They will all have their set of noble and moral principles to quote.
03:40Israel will say, you know, operating on this principle have we attacked.
03:44Iran will say, oh, we are against Zionism.
03:48And the U.S.
03:51And the U.S. will say, it is for the sake of world peace that we are entering the war.
03:54So, there is some principle, some principle, some principle, in the jungle, there is no principle really.
04:00The only principle is, I have to exist.
04:07I was reading somewhere, do-gooders in the name of climate crisis mitigation, tried planting trees close to a forested area.
04:20They think that if they plant trees, then they can arrest climate change, without even going into the facts and the numbers.
04:30I quoted the numbers.
04:32Because such greenwashing has been happening since long and has become even more pervasive today.
04:38People think that by planting one trees or ten trees, they have done their bit, which is not even one percent of the total emissions, that they are annually responsible for.
04:52The tree cannot absorb much.
04:56So, somebody planted some trees, on the borders of a forest.
05:03You know what the trees did?
05:08They ate up the forest.
05:12Because, because the forest was not used to that particular species.
05:20These are called invasive species.
05:24So, all the native species of trees, they started disappearing.
05:27And, when the native trees started disappearing, the birds that used to live on those trees, they also started disappearing.
05:35The entire ecosystem was on the brink of collapse.
05:39It's not that just human beings want to have their own survival at the cost of other human beings.
05:46Or, nations want to survive at the cost of other nations.
05:48Even trees want to survive at the cost of other trees.
05:54There could be six trees of a particular species, or mixed species.
06:01You bring in one invasive species, and all those six would be gone, this one species would have proliferated itself.
06:10I want space for myself.
06:12That's what every species want.
06:13What was the rationale, for the entire World War II?
06:22Hitler said, the Germans are a superior lot.
06:27A higher race.
06:28And, Germany does not have too much land, and the population is burgeoning.
06:34Most populated country, in that region.
06:38So, the Germans deserve more land.
06:40And, that more land was to be had from Eastern Europe.
06:47So, he attacked Poland.
06:49It says that when he attacked Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany.
06:54So, Hitler had to fight on the Western Front also.
06:57Otherwise, what he wanted was land.
07:01Land from Eastern Europe.
07:03Invasive species, I need to have stuff for myself, you see.
07:12I don't care for others.
07:13That's the law of the jungle.
07:14And, Prakriti is very happy with that.
07:18Our problem is with that, we want to write the whole thing in the language of morality.
07:23And, in that language, this story cannot be written.
07:30What is happening is just a game of our very primitive instincts.
07:34I need more land.
07:37I need to secure my own physical survival.
07:42I need more land.
07:43So, you know, there is the West Bank.
07:45There is the Gaza.
07:47There is the Jerusalem problem.
07:51I need to ensure my survival.
07:56So, before he strikes at me, I can strike preemptively.
08:02And, in the language of survival, that does sound fine.
08:06Does it not?
08:08Or do you wait for the enemy to amass nuclear capacity and bomb you out of existence?
08:13Israel is a small country, half the size of Keral.
08:16You take a few largest districts of India and you find Israel is comparable.
08:28In the same league.
08:32That's how big Israel is.
08:33You drop two nuclear weapons there and the entire place is gone.
08:40Not even one crore jiu, 70-75 lakh.
08:43That's all.
08:46Do you get this?
08:52So, then what is the solution?
08:55The real solution is
08:56to not let these animals remain animals.
09:00That is the only real solution.
09:03As long as animals remain animals in human form,
09:07they will fight for survival.
09:12Your entire body is a killing machine.
09:14What do the WBCs and the T-cells exist in the body for?
09:21We are killing all the time.
09:24In Prakriti, killing is not violence.
09:28Killing is movement.
09:29Killing is action.
09:31Killing is the norm.
09:31Even as the two of us talk to each other, our bodies are busy killing.
09:37The entire air around us is full of microbes of all kinds and they keep entering the body.
09:45Water, air, food, skin.
09:47They are all the time penetrating your body.
09:49And your body is a killing machine.
09:52Any foreign thing that enters your body, your body fights it and kills it.
09:55That's Prakriti.
10:00And you cannot say your body is immoral.
10:04Your body is Prakriti.
10:05The lion is hunting down the deers.
10:11The eagle is swooping down on the sparrow.
10:16That's Prakriti.
10:17Killing all the time.
10:21The cute little bird
10:23Just ate up the little insect.
10:29And the bird is so cute.
10:30But it's killing insects all the time.
10:34That's Prakriti.
10:36To each his own.
10:38Everybody is concerned only about their own survival.
10:42That's Prakriti.
10:44Israel is saying my survival is threatened.
10:46I will attack.
10:47As long as we remain things of the jungle.
10:53This will continue.
11:00Wisdom is the solution.
11:02You don't need to transcend to become enlightened.
11:05You need to transcend so that you become human beings.
11:10We are beasts.
11:11We are beasts in human form.
11:13That's how we are born.
11:14And that's not being abusive or being offensive.
11:19That's being factual.
11:20We are beasts.
11:21That's it.
11:22We are beasts with intellect.
11:25With nuclear scientists.
11:28With high IQs.
11:29We are beasts.
11:34So we need transcendence.
11:36So that we can become human beings.
11:40Enlightenment etc. is a far cry.
11:43Fantastic.
11:44But I think by the time.
11:47If we even think that people will be not truly enlightened.
11:52But by the time they understand that what will be the repercussions of it.
11:57It's going to be too late.
11:59And.
12:00No, Prakriti doesn't care.
12:01Too late is from your own center of reference.
12:06Prakriti doesn't care.
12:08All of you are wiped out.
12:09Prakriti doesn't care.
12:11Prakriti doesn't care.
12:11There have been.
12:12Five mass extinctions till now.
12:15Almost everything was wiped out.
12:17Prakriti doesn't care.
12:18If you feel it be too late and everybody would be gone.
12:24Then the responsibility is on you to help elevate these beasts.
12:33Into human beings.
12:35Otherwise this game will continue.
12:38There would be a world war 3 and everything would be over.
12:41And that's all.
12:41And that can happen like within this month.
12:45Within this decade.
12:46I won't say within this century.
12:50Because this century won't wait for world war 3.
12:53Climate change is enough.
12:54That would be worse than world war 3.
12:59This is seen.
13:01In terms of the universe.
13:04This is a petty game.
13:07Going on.
13:09On one particular.
13:12Oblate spheroid.
13:13We are smaller than a speck of dust in the universe.
13:23Aren't we?
13:25Living on a minuscule little ball.
13:28We are fighting our petty games.
13:33Ball.
13:36And there is this little tiny ball.
13:39And we are all living on it.
13:41And throwing nukes at each other.
13:43Who bothers?
13:46Existence doesn't bother.
13:48Prakrati.
13:49The universe doesn't bother.
13:51You destroy each other.
13:54Your biggest nuclear weapon.
13:57Is smaller.
13:59Than a Diwali cracker.
14:01When it comes to the solar system.
14:05Jupiter is more than a thousand times bigger than Earth.
14:09And Jupiter is such a small planet.
14:13Orbiting a medium sized star.
14:16The sun.
14:18And there are millions of such suns in your very galaxy.
14:21And there are billions of galaxies in the universe.
14:24Who cares if your species is obliterated?
14:27Prakrati says go to hell.
14:30Who cares?
14:33But if you care as a conscious being.
14:39Then the responsibility is all upon you.
14:41And the only real method is.
14:52Don't let the beast remain the beast.
14:54The beast could be a three piece suit wearing beast.
14:59A nuclear degree holding beast.
15:07A popular mandate holding beast.
15:10The beast is still a beast.
15:23Sitting in front of a super computer.
15:29And wearing a tie.
15:32The beast does not become a human being.
15:35Don't make the mistake of looking at things.
15:43From the wrong center.
15:47You are assuming these are conscious beings.
15:51And therefore.
15:52There is a moral angle to their actions.
15:55No sir.
15:55All morality is superficial.
15:58All morality.
15:59Is just for display.
16:02These are not conscious beings.
16:03Their actions do not come from consciousness.
16:06Their actions come from the primitive instinct.
16:09For survival.
16:10Survival at any cost.
16:12Physical survival.
16:13Above everything else.
16:14That's the instinct.
16:16And you cannot condemn that instinct.
16:19We are not condemning it.
16:21We are acknowledging it.
16:22Yes.
16:23That's what is found in the jungle.
16:25That's found in all beasts.
16:26That's also what is found in human beings.
16:31Now if that piques you.
16:33Then enter the fray.
16:38Let's fight it out.
16:42It seems that spreading the Gita mission is the only solution.
16:45This is the only solution.
16:49And I'll die a fulfilled man.
16:53I'll know I tried the utmost.
16:56I did the maximum I could.
16:57I also know that in my lifetime I am not going to see much success.
17:04I see the stupidity of those opposed to me.
17:13But I also see the absolute idiocy of those with me.
17:20That's fine.
17:21This is the only way to save anything possible.
17:28And yet we are so passive.
17:30So indifferent.
17:32So inactive.
17:34So guarded.
17:34We are still saving for another day.
17:41I might die fulfilled.
17:49But I'll still be sad.
17:58Something was possible.
17:59It couldn't be done.
18:03My name is Shubhangi.
18:08And I am an IT consultant.
18:11And I live in Munich for past eight years.
18:14And I have been listening to Acharya Ji for more than two years on YouTube.
18:22And part of Gita sessions for roughly a year or maybe a little more.
18:30And reflecting upon today's session, we were learning the 57th verse of second chapter from
18:38Bhagavad Gita.
18:39And in the context, Acharya Ji talked about the desire and the one of the sentences which
18:52I really liked was, the true can't be discovered by any other means but false.
19:00And the last one which I really liked but I have yet to mull over is, you can't understand
19:09a desire and find it intact.
19:13I am yet to understand it better.
19:19That's pretty much what I learned with respect in words today.
19:24And in the end, what I will remember a lot is, don't just pass by, rather stop.
19:33This will stay with me.
19:35And apart from that, I have also grown particularly fond of a sentence, rather a question.
19:42How do you know?
19:44It makes assuming things very difficult.
19:47At the same time, it has saved me a lot of mental every evening situations.
19:51So, be thankful so far for all such teachings.
19:58And thank you.
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