00:00Greetings Master. So when the body will die, when I am thinking of death, one thing I know
00:10that my consumption of the world will end. That much I know. But I am afraid of that
00:17because I am living and thriving on consuming the world. Gaining pleasure from the world,
00:24I am living on that. So my food for existence will stop.
00:34Maybe that's what we are afraid of. Consumption coming to an end without the end having been achieved.
00:54It's like this. Go back to that example. When some ticketless fellow sneaks into the first
01:09class reserved coach. Think of this. Why has he chosen to get into that particular coach
01:18and not into General Dabba? To consume the comforts of AC and other. To consume the comforts.
01:29But he has still not managed to secure a seat. Instead, he is hanging in the toilet. Now, will
01:43he want the journey to end? Think why he entered the coach in the first place? He wanted to consume
01:56the pleasure of the broad birth and the air conditioning and the service and all else. Instead, his entire
02:06journey, his entire journey, his entire life, 80 years has been the duration of the journey.
02:11He has been hanging in the latrine. Because he is an intruder. So he has been hiding there
02:20fear and everything and the smell. Now, will he want the journey to end this way?
02:27No, no. He would want to have a more graceful end. That's what. Death scares the ego. Because
02:45there was something that the ego wanted from its existence that has not yet been achieved. The
02:53technical problem there is that that which the ego wants from its existence can only be attained
03:00from its non-existence. Therefore, the only way to avoid death is by dying before death.
03:18What the ego wants to attain from its existence. What is it that the ego wants to attain by being?
03:23I am the ego. I want to continue. What is it that I want from my continuation?
03:29A certain fulfillment. I want a certain satisfaction. A certain fulfillment, satisfaction, happiness,
03:35all those things, right? The thing is, if I continue, I can never get all those things. But all those things
03:43are available on a platter if I discontinue. Everybody wants to be respected. We associate ego with pride,
03:52don't we? And who are the ones we ultimately respect the most? Humanity has respected the most?
03:59The sages and the seers. Who could put their ego aside? So it's a strange thing. That which the ego wants from its existence,
04:10comes in ample measure, in an infinite measure, but when the ego is not there. You can get everything that you want.
04:19But only if you are no more there to want. I think in the last Gita session, you said something related to this that great things are done when there is no doer.
04:32Hmm. But the doer says, you know, I am not bothered with great things happening. I am bothered with consuming the results of the great things happening.
04:45Therefore, I must exist. But if you exist, great things will not happen. Forget about the result. Even the happening will not take place.
04:55All great things can happen. All your desires can be fulfilled. Only the condition is that you must not be there to see them getting fulfilled.
05:16It's like the enemy can be defeated, but it requires your sacrifice. The ego soldier says, fine, if I sacrifice myself,
05:25maybe the enemy will be defeated. But who will remain to enjoy the victory? I must remain to enjoy the victory.
05:32So therefore, the enemy will never be defeated. So I come to this conclusion that ultimately it is the choice between my continuation versus my fulfillment.
05:55If I choose my fulfillment is more important than my continuation, then it's a Buddha.
06:08But even when you put it this way, there is some solace. It's my continuation versus my fulfillment. It's actually my continuation versus fulfillment.
06:20Fulfillment. Fulfillment. Just fulfillment. Fulfillment without the me.
06:33So I have one more question. So you are talking about freshness, newness, changing things, freedom from boredom.
06:43I remember reading in later chapters of Ashtavakra Gita, where the Atma is called as Nutan. The Sanskrit word is used Nutan.
06:58So from there I could relate Nutan means new. So only the Atma is new.
07:08And where there is fear, there can be no newness. In fear, you just want to repeat the successes of the past.
07:15So you also talked about, again, these things changing small, small things, even in the external world.
07:32Actually, you advised me to read this book called The Little Prince in one of Hindi Gita sessions.
07:39So there I see ample of this thing happening. So the Little Prince is visiting new, new planets, is meeting new people.
07:48It is visiting Earth. It is trying, experimenting with the snake. It is experimenting with the bird.
07:55And all of this happens. And at the end of the book, the Little Prince is gone. He is dead.
08:08So ultimately, there is no meaning of these, changing these things, changing new, new things.
08:17But he, the Little Prince is still doing new things.
08:21Yes. The meaning lies in the doing itself. There is no meaning at the end of it all.
08:27Either there is meaning right now, or there is no meaning ever.
08:38Because when I reached the end of that book, I started feeling, I mean, why did I even read this book?
08:50Because at the end, he just died. I mean, nothing happened. I was expecting something to happen.
08:55I mean, nothing just happened. He just died. So...
08:59At the end, Rajdeep, even you and I will just, you know, be the Little Prince. Nothing happens.
09:14Neither are you special, nor am I. We will be just, just gone, you know.
09:23Dekhat hii chup jayega jyotara parbhat. Remember that one? Hmm?
09:30Paani kera budbuda asamanas ki jaat. Dekhat hii chup jayega jyotara parbhat.
09:40It's gone. This moment, it's there. The next moment, it's gone. What meaning are we talking of?
09:45What do you think of your existence? Think of the Big Bang. How many trillion years has it been?
09:51And think of the time since the Earth experienced life.
09:57What's the worth of your existence in terms of its time span?
10:02So, there can be no meaning in the physical existence as such.
10:08If there is any meaning, it has to be in the depth of your being. Only that has meaning.
10:14All else is pretty meaningless.
10:21You know, for how many million years the dinosaurs ruled the Earth?
10:30How many million years?
10:33And we live for like 60 years?
10:37It was for 60 million years that they were the emperors over here.
10:42Where are they? Where is the meaning?
10:45I'm pretty sure they too had some kind of hierarchy and this and that and divisions.
10:50And then think of the Neanderthals.
10:53The proto-humans.
10:55They had pretty much developed brains.
10:58They too must be having their kingdoms and their emperors and so much.
11:03What all does that mean today?
11:05What does their existence...
11:08I mean, it's a blink in the expanse of time.
11:16And even when you are not gone, even when you exist, tell me,
11:19for the 800 crore people of this planet, what do you mean?
11:23What does the greatest of all persons born mean to all the life forms on this planet?
11:32There is hardly any meaning.
11:36Do not think in terms of residues.
11:39Do not think in terms of what remains.
11:42Think in terms of what is.
11:49Nothing will remain.
11:52All these photos and selfies and recordings.
12:02The meaning of this session is right now.
12:04If it's right now, it's alright.
12:06If it's not right now,
12:08then it's all just about subscribers and views and all that.
12:12It's a good piece of entertainment.
12:19I remember Osho saying this thing that
12:24Astitva Aakaran Hai.
12:26Astitva Aakaran Hai.
12:30Logic does not apply to Prakriti.
12:32So ultimate...
12:34Randomness.
12:35So regarding this only, so if ultimately there is no meaning.
12:48So many people say that even if we, even if the sixth mass extinction occurs,
12:55your same logic could be put in that way that ultimately nothing matters.
12:59Then why do we care?
13:01But you gave the answer at the last also that the current doing is itself causing the harm to me.
13:10My effort matters.
13:11That's this movement, right?
13:14I might as well know that my effort won't suffice.
13:18That the mass extinction is anyway going to happen.
13:21I might know that it might not suffice.
13:23But it's the game that matters, not the goal.
13:27I'll play the game with all vivaciousness possible.
13:31And ending with a small note.
13:44At the end, one thing will be certain that tea will be boiled out of me if I die in Manikarnika.
