00:00This one comes from Sonali. Pranam Acharya Ji, I quote the fountainhead thus,
00:12Howard Rourke, I didn't know it then, but it's because I never believed in God.
00:20Henry Cameroon, come on, talk sense. Howard Rourke, because I love this earth,
00:27that's all I love. I don't like the shape of things on the earth, I want to change them.
00:33Henry Cameroon, for whom? For Rourke, for myself.
00:37When asked by Cameroon about his career choice, why did Howard Rourke say that he doesn't believe in God?
00:44Why he seems to be the one who actually does?
00:50Most people blame the shape of things on earth, on God.
01:02Most people say, God is the Father, the Creator.
01:07So, if things on earth are ugly, who is responsible? God.
01:16And they say, accept it. Isn't that a great fad in spirituality? Accept things as they are.
01:25When you say, accept things as they are, what you are saying is, after all, this is God's wish.
01:31How can you not accept it?
01:34If things are totally rotten, why are they rotten? Who is the prime mover? God.
01:41He is the doer. He did it. And if He did it, who are you not to accept His wish, His designs?
01:48In fact, you should accept what He is doing and say, whatever God does is for the good.
01:56Rourke is demolishing that myth. He is saying, no.
02:04I love this earth and I fully well know that how man lives on earth and what shape he gives to the earth,
02:13what life he spends on the earth, the entire quality of his existence is not dictated by any agency outside of himself.
02:29Man has an inherent freedom.
02:40Man has the capacity to choose.
02:44And man must take responsibility of how he is living his life, what he has turned the earth into.
02:54In fact, there can be only one purposeful action and that purpose has to be demolition.
03:15In fact, I feel impelled to say this.
03:36When I was in the process of quitting my corporate career and moving to teaching, I was asked by many people, why are you doing this?
03:55I would say many things, but the one thing that I often said, and said most emphatically, convincingly, honestly, it was that I do not like the way people are.
04:19I just do not like the way people are.
04:26So I must do something about that.
04:31And it's great, Sonali, that you have quoted Rourke here and he says,
04:41I love this earth, that's all I love, I don't like the shape of things on earth, I want to change them.
04:47Happens to remind me of myself.
04:56What else can be a purpose?
04:58What else can be a purpose?
05:07Except demolition.
05:11Even freedom cannot be a purpose.
05:14The purpose has to be freedom from bondage.
05:26Freedom is so absolute that it cannot be a purpose to be realized, a target to be attained.
05:33A purpose has to be earthly, a purpose has to be tangible.
05:45So absolute freedom cannot be a purpose.
05:51Freedom from the rotten must be a purpose.
05:56Freedom from bondages and ignorance and illusion must be the purpose.
06:02You have to start off by saying there is this that must not exist and it still does.
06:22I will eliminate it.
06:27And this, the thing that you are talking of pointing at, can be something within you, can be something outside of you.
06:42It can be both within you and outside of you.
06:47It could be the faces of men that one dislikes, or it could be the faces of buildings.
