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00:00okay so uh my first question is that uh it is a personal question like i had a very bad childhood
00:16trauma uh it was related to sexual assault and i'm still suffering from that that uh vibes come
00:25to me again and again and that person uh is very close to me and my family and i'm not able to tell
00:32that to anyone still nobody knows that except me so yeah uh he is again coming in front of me again
00:41and again and i feel that pain every time i see him or i think about that uh so my question is that
00:48that i have a nephew my sister's son four year old so i'm seeing that he is facing the same problem
00:57he's going to face that he he will have nobody to share his problems with which i faced which led to
01:03this assault and he has he's going to face that problem because his parents are as same not that
01:12much understanding how my parents are so i just wanted to ask that how to get the strength to
01:19bear this and how to help him and other kids also to not face this problem
01:26see it is good that in the beginning itself you realize that it is not something limited or particular to you
01:48you you can immediately see that such a thing uh afflicts many others and uh very immediately
02:00it is probably going to affect your nephew now broaden the scope of this understanding a little more
02:15it is going to affect millions of uh other kids and uh children and uh teens and preteens
02:31um there are so many who are going to be affected by it and once you realize that
02:37two things happen one your sense of having been personally assaulted diminishes greatly
02:53we realize it is a phenomena not a personal event it is a general thing not something specific to you
03:04so that feeling of hurt within diminishes greatly secondly there arises a solid sense of responsibility
03:25it happened with you it is happening with so many others and with your personal experience
03:31this you realize it should not happen something has to be done about it and because it is
03:37not something unique to you or particular to you therefore the action has to be general
03:44in nature if the action has to be general in nature you need to first of all put your finger
03:50on what the general problem is the general problem not the problem in your family or in
03:57in the family in the neighborhood or in one particular family in some other city it's not about unique
04:07instances it's about the general problem what is it that makes a human being do such a thing
04:17to another human being what is it that makes such a thing a possibility in every second household
04:27we know the numbers they are very staggering we also know that the reported numbers are way below
04:37the actual ones and we also know that progress in science technology and education is not really leading
04:52to any kind of any kind of reduction in this tendency and such happenings in fact it is possible that such
05:02happenings might actually be increasing over the years even as human beings become more prosperous
05:10more educated and more technologically equipped right so that is what is happening on the external
05:20front you realize that we are more powerful than ever human beings today are taller than ever the average
05:32weight is probably more than it ever was in our history the prosperity levels are higher than
05:40there ever were the average life span is longer than it ever was in the developed world almost 100% population
05:54is literate even in India literacy levels are exceeding 80% now
06:03and there is so much power that all of us have at our hands and yet we find that
06:15internally we are exploitative we are slaves to our animal instincts we find occasions to exploit others
06:32ourselves in all kinds of ways sexual economic emotional and the moment there is an opportunity we jump at it all we need to have is someone who is vulnerable and we don't let go of the chance
06:52ourselves so what is really happening and can these things be looked at in isolation are they not part of a general pattern related to the human consciousness
06:59are they not part of a general pattern related to the human consciousness look at flesh consumption for example the number of animals being
07:19animals being butchered everyday today for human consumption now runs into billions can you can you even come to terms with that billions of living beings being butchered to satisfy our taste buds everyday and is it too much to
07:49to see how that is part of the same pattern that leads to exploitation of little human beings within the family or in the school or at some other place isn't the tendency to exploit just the same you have a small thing at your home four year old that small thing
08:18could be your son your daughter your nephew your niece a small living being a small helpless vulnerable living being and you exploit her and you have a small animal it could be a hen a duck a lamb and you slaughter it to feed
08:45your senses are these two events really dimensionally different from each other they belong to the same level they are part of the same pattern and the same problem are you getting it and with human beings becoming more powerful
09:13powerful technologically economically the little being at home is even more staggeringly at the mercy of the grown-ups because it is the grown-ups that have all the power the little one does not know technology the little one has no idea of his or her rights the little one is absolutely at the mercy of everybody else
09:41absolutely at the mercy of everybody else and these grown-ups they have so much today they never had so much in history they can do anything don't you see how human consciousness and the corruption within it is manifesting itself in a hundred ways and sexual exploitation
10:11and that you cannot take care of the problem of childhood sexual trauma unless you take care of the problem of consciousness itself
10:18obviously we can have more stringent laws we can educate our populations better and deeper we can do a lot of things to try to curb this menace
10:25trauma unless you take care of the problem of consciousness itself obviously
10:33we can have more stringent laws we can educate our populations better and
10:41deeper we can do a lot of things to try to curb this menace right you could have
10:50CCTVs in schools and there are so many other things you can do you can start
11:00teaching good touch and bad touch even to three-year-olds you can do all these
11:04things but even as I speak of it I am sure you are sensing that this won't work
11:10to a great extent right because to what extent can you monitor the life of a
11:17three-year-old or a six seven-year-old it's not humanly possible so while all
11:27those things surely must be done laws must be more stringent the execution has to
11:37be rapid and objective and as much care as is possible must be taken but we must
11:50also know that this problem does not arise from lax laws this problem arises from as
11:58we said the corruption of human consciousness around eight years back I
12:06was talking to college students like you and I said rapists we all are if you if
12:13you search for that video or that article on the net you will find it rapists we
12:20all are first the same thing said we don't understand that these things are not
12:28about a particular kind of conduct against a particular individual the way
12:34our civilization is progressing or deteriorating the way we are being
12:43conditioned or cultured the problem lies there we have been told and we are
12:52continuously being told that the purpose of life is pleasure and happiness if that
13:01is the highest that you can have in life why must you not be prepared to pay any
13:08price for it tell me please if your culture your conditioning your education your
13:14media your family your school your entire environment is telling you that you
13:21exist to be happy then why must you not do things that make you happy if the entire
13:29world economy is running on the back of forced consumption then why must you not internally
13:41become a consumer and nothing else who am I I'm a consumer whatsoever I can lay my hands on I'll consume it
13:50it and consumption is happiness happiness is the purpose of life and consumption is the way to get
14:00happiness so I spot a vulnerable four-year-old in my home and I'll go and consume her because that gives me
14:14happiness the only morality is to be happy that's what we are being told I'm getting it of course of course of course I mean there would be people who will say no no one one has all the right to be happy but we must also respect the rights of others and such things so do you respect the rights of other living beings when you exploit them and kill them
14:42look at the rest of ourselves look at the rest of the earth how much of it remains look at all these climate change conferences look at the charade there look at how we fooled ourselves are we really concerned at
15:01all about the very disappearance of species, biodiversity is all but gone.
15:13So many species are either extinct or critically endangered, are we worried about them?
15:21And we choose leaders who choose to be silent on these issues.
15:27So the common man cares for nothing but his or her consumption and that includes both
15:34men and women.
15:37All we want is consumption, let the planet go to hell, let all the species disappear.
15:44If entire species can be condemned to be extinct, why will somebody spare your nephew?
15:55We are talking of entire species, they would be gone forever.
16:02Your nephew is just one little person.
16:05Why would somebody care for him?
16:11When we haven't been taught to care for anything, when a very, very wrong kind of philosophy
16:17has been fed into us, when spirituality has been purposefully kept away from our lives.
16:28What else do you expect?
16:29Please tell me.
16:34So, there would be a thousand muted sobs in every place and every corner.
16:44A thousand sobs, but I said all muted ones because we are supposed to be externally happy.
16:49Because happiness is the purpose of life.
16:52Please be happy.
16:54Please be well made up.
16:56Please put up a smiling face.
16:58You are not supposed to look unhappy.
17:02Irrespective of whether you have been brutalized, exploited.
17:07Irrespective of whether you have been subject to the grossest kind of abuse.
17:15Even if you are depressed, your depression has to be a fascinating, glamorous story.
17:22Worth selling.
17:23So, as you covered it and my follow-up question was that only as you talk about veganism and
17:32you converted me to vegan.
17:34I was also a non-vegetarian before I met you.
17:39It had been one year since I started watching your videos and now I have turned vegan so hard.
17:45I am trying to convert other people also.
17:47But, as you also said that we don't care about others.
17:52So, I also read news far away that a nine-month-old god was raped.
17:59So, I was just astonished, like, how can somebody do that?
18:04Like, a nine-month-old baby, she would be so cute and so lovable.
18:09So, we don't even understand the feelings of humans.
18:12How would we understand the feelings of animals?
18:14So, it is really difficult for me to make people understand that okay, animals also have some feelings.
18:21They don't even understand our feelings.
18:24So, that was also my one question.
18:26It goes hand in hand.
18:28If you look at YouTube or other forms of social media, you will find thousands of very popular videos relating to recipes
18:46coming from a tender lamb or tender goat.
18:53So, you take a kid, that's what, two months, four months, six months old and its flesh is supposed to be especially luscious and tender
19:11and you want to sever it.
19:14Now, do you see how it is not impossible for us to rape a nine-month-old girl?
19:20Do you see this?
19:21Flesh is flesh.
19:24Flesh is flesh.
19:26We don't realize that.
19:27We think that it is possible to operate in fragments.
19:31We think that it is possible to be cruel towards a three-month-old lamb and be compassionate towards a nine-month-old girl.
19:42No, it is not possible because the human psyche does not work like that.
19:47Once cruel, always cruel.
19:48Cruel towards one person, cruel towards entire humanity and cruel towards yourself.
19:58If you are being taught exploitation and cunningness in one dimension of your life, you will exercise
20:09that in all areas, all dimensions of your life.
20:14If you are corrupt in office, you will be corrupt even at home, even though you may not want
20:18to admit it or you may not want to be consciously corrupt, but you will find that you are corrupt
20:23anyway irrespective of what you think about it.
20:29So, that's the fundamental problem.
20:32And if that is the fundamental problem, we also know the fundamental solution.
20:37We'll have to be made human.
20:40We are born animals.
20:44And the way to be human is to be educated in a spiritual way.
20:52I very well know that sounds very old-fashioned to you young people, but there is no other
20:59way.
21:01You require wisdom literature, you require Vedanta, you require Upanishads, else we'll be a people
21:11of these thousand muted sobs, we are already that.
21:23It has to have a bearing on the way our economy is, our social structures are, our education
21:30is, our politics is.
21:34All of this is just devoid of any spiritual base.
21:41If your economics is not founded on spirituality, it will be an economics that will involve selling
21:52of not goods or materials, but trade in human beings themselves.
22:02You'll be able to, you'll be ready to sell anything for your greed and for your happiness.
22:13You'll be prepared to sell others off.
22:17And you'll be prepared to auction your own life.
22:23I also wanted to say that I am a very emotional type of person, so before one year, I didn't
22:39know this all that much.
22:42I had left some kind of knowledge, but I was eating eggs type of thing, that egalitarian,
22:47you know.
22:48So, but then I was not exposed to these cruelties and all these, but when I came in contact with
22:55you, then I started watching and I also watched some videos, very cruel to that slaughterhouses
23:01and all.
23:02And that, then now when I, whenever I see like anyone eating, even egg, because my family,
23:07my boss are all non-vegetarian and they always, they even try to force me to eat, but I don't.
23:13But then I lose my strength after seeing, I start crying and then they mock on me.
23:19So, I wanted to ask that.
23:21I know you are also very sensitive person.
23:23I have seen many of the videos.
23:25So, how to strengthen yourself when, when you're exposed to these kinds of things, you're
23:30always seeing this all going on to the world.
23:33So, how to strengthen myself?
23:35Every act of cruelty and ignorance that you see should tell you how urgent your task is
23:44and how quickly time is running out.
23:49The more you are exposed to such happenings, the deeper should be your inner sense of urgency.
24:00Work harder and be more ferocious in your battle.
24:07Don't hold anything back.
24:14What are you saving yourself for?
24:16Time is running out.
24:20So, when I am exposed to things that involve cruelty, exploitation, ignorance, it hardens
24:29my resolve.
24:32It quickens me up, makes me work harder.
24:46Thank you so much.
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