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By not adoring the worthy, people will not fall into dispute.
By not valuing the hard to get objects, people will not become robbers.
By not seeing the desires of lust, one's hurt will not be confused.
Therefore the governing of the saint is to empty one's mind,
substantiate one's virtue,
weaken one's worldly ambition and strengthen one's essence.
He lets the people to be innocent of worldly knowledge and desire,
and keeps the clever ones from making trouble with their wits.
Acts naturally without desire, then everything will be accomplished in it's natural order.
Lao Tzu ( Tao Te Ching, Chapter - 2)
~ What is ambition?
~ Do we know what we should really get in our life?
~ Do we know the reality of our ambition?
~ What is the action?
~ How do people get into arguments?
Music Credits: Milind Date .
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Video Information: 13.05.2019, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, Uttrakhand, India
Context:
By not adoring the worthy, people will not fall into dispute.
By not valuing the hard to get objects, people will not become robbers.
By not seeing the desires of lust, one's hurt will not be confused.
Therefore the governing of the saint is to empty one's mind,
substantiate one's virtue,
weaken one's worldly ambition and strengthen one's essence.
He lets the people to be innocent of worldly knowledge and desire,
and keeps the clever ones from making trouble with their wits.
Acts naturally without desire, then everything will be accomplished in it's natural order.
Lao Tzu ( Tao Te Ching, Chapter - 2)
~ What is ambition?
~ Do we know what we should really get in our life?
~ Do we know the reality of our ambition?
~ What is the action?
~ How do people get into arguments?
Music Credits: Milind Date .
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00:00By not adoring the worthy, people will not fall into dispute.
00:16By not valuing the hard to get objects, people will not become robbers.
00:25By not seeing the desires of lust, one's heart will not be confused.
00:32Therefore, the governing of the saint is to empty one's mind, substantiate one's virtue,
00:38weaken one's worldly ambition and strengthen one's essence.
00:44He lets the people to be innocent of worldly knowledge and desire and keeps the clever
00:49ones from making trouble with their wits.
00:53Acts naturally without desire, then everything will be accomplished in its natural order.
01:04The first three lines in the above verse are a bit confusing.
01:11Can you please help me to understand them?
01:14Also, how does a saint let people be innocent of worldly knowledge and desire and the clever
01:21ones from making trouble with their wits.
01:24Thank you for your guidance, Nimisha.
01:30First three lines in the above verse are a bit confusing.
01:34And how does the saint let, okay, first three lines first.
01:40By not adoring the worthy, people will not fall into dispute.
01:44By not valuing the hard to get objects, people will not become robbers.
01:48By not seeing the desires of lust, one's heart will not be confused.
01:57Action is being traced to the value behind the action.
02:04How does one become a robber?
02:09By valuing material objects.
02:15How do people fall into disputes?
02:20By adhering to ideologies and to role models.
02:27How does the mind get confused?
02:34By constantly looking at the various objects of lust and attraction.
02:47That's what Lao Tzu is saying here, Nimisha.
02:56The central attraction appears harmless.
03:06That's how the game begins.
03:10When one is being attracted by ideologies or role models, at that time they appear sublime
03:38and tasteful.
03:47And one feels that there would only be benefits.
03:54But what appears beneficial in the beginning leads to a strife soon after.
04:02How did the subscriber to an ideology feel when he came upon the ideology the first time?
04:20He felt elevated.
04:26How did the subscriber to the opposing ideology feel when he subscribed to it the first time?
04:37He too felt elevated.
04:40But very soon these two would clash.
04:45Lao Tzu is talking against principles.
04:54He is saying when you live on patterns, and principles are patterns, when you live on
04:59patterns, strife is the inevitable result.
05:09It's sweet to begin with, bitter in the end.
05:21People have killed each other, murdered each other since centuries in the name of faith,
05:34denomination, thought, principles, ideologies.
05:52How does it relate to adoring the worthy?
05:55When you adore one who is worthy, you also adore his actions, thoughts, words.
06:07Hardly do you ever reach the center of his actions.
06:13Hardly do you ever reach his heart.
06:17But you end up copying and emulating his actions.
06:23You do not reach the source from where his words originate.
06:28But you do mug up his words and you turn them into principles.
06:36And when you are the principled one, you are bound to clash with those who appear unprincipled.
06:50Similarly he says, by not valuing the heart to get objects, people will not become robbers.
06:57The more you install the world as a value in people, the more likely they are to get
07:16into social chaos.
07:23Even in society there is conflict and chaos because all are running after worldly goods.
07:33One wondrous thing with the truth is that it cannot be reduced, that it cannot get diminished.
07:49You keep dividing it and distributing it.
07:54It still remains whole and total.
07:58But that is not the case with worldly objects.
08:02Everything in the world is limited.
08:06So if the people are running after truth, there is going to be no conflict.
08:10Everybody can have the truth.
08:15You can have as much truth as you want to have and there would still remain an infinite
08:22supply of truth.
08:26But if the people of the world are running after a cake or a piece of land, then there
08:31is bound to be conflict.
08:34Because not everybody can have infinite land.
08:40Everything in the world is limited.
08:43That's what Lao Tzu is saying.
08:45The more you value the world, the more anarchy there is in the society.
08:52Two men, if they both are lovers of God, can both have God.
09:03But two men, if they both are lovers of a woman, probably they both can't have her.
09:11That's the thing with wanting anything worldly.
09:14It is always in short supply.
09:16First of all, it is in short supply.
09:18Secondly, when you get it, it is not what you wanted to get.
09:24Truth is immutable.
09:29So if you get the truth, it would remain the same after 30 years.
09:33But the woman, after 30 years, that's too much to think of.
09:41After three years, even that is too long a period to sustain.
09:47Even after three months, she does not remain what she appeared to be.
09:55Lao Tzu is saying, if you have to run after something, you better run after that which
10:03is always there to be taken, never deceives you
10:20and is not going to ever change.
10:31Is there any love affair in which both parties do not feel cheated?
10:37They may still carry on in spite of being cheated.
10:41That is alright.
10:47But they all carry this sting.
10:55This is not how it was supposed to pan out.
11:01But now that the TV has been brought home after spending so much, it cannot be smashed
11:07on the floor.
11:08Too much investment has gone into it.
11:12So we will carry on with it.
11:13But surely this is not what we had signed up for.
11:21There is no lover in the world who is not putting up a brave face and is smarting within.
11:34Oh no, what is it that I have brought home?
11:44With God, that risk is not there.
11:56There is no possibility of any complaints because nobody remains to complain.
12:03God is the ultimate purchase.
12:05After that there is nobody left to purchase anything.
12:12Poison on the menu.
12:13Order it and then you would never order anything else.
12:34And then by not seeing the desires of lust, one's heart will not be confused.
12:47When you know what it is that simply puts you off the right track, why do you get into
12:58it again and again?
13:02It's not that you do not know the beginnings of it.
13:06You know how it begins and still you let it begin.
13:10And then you complain, oh such and such thing happened with me.
13:32This is what is called in Indian scriptures as Indriya Nigraha and sometimes as Dham.
14:02Do not let the eyes see what the eyes must not see.
14:06Do not let the ears hear what the ears must not hear.
14:10Do not let the mind think what the mind must not think of.
14:17Once you let it begin, then it is like that cereal cracker containing a thousand mini
14:28bombs, Hazar ki Ladi.
14:34All that you do is, you show a little bit of flame to the first baby cracker and after
14:49that it is unstoppable.
14:54When you know what it is, why do you unnecessarily play with fire?
15:24Then she asks, how does a saint let people be innocent of worldly knowledge and desire?
15:34And how does the saint prevent the clever ones from making trouble with their wits?
15:46This is how.
15:48What did Lao Tzu do his entire life?
15:53He taught, he told, he exposed.
15:56That's what the saint does.
15:59And if he has a little more love, then he demonstrates.
16:05And if he has gone crazy in love, then he fights for the people.
16:17How does a saint let people be innocent of worldly knowledge?
16:22By showing them what worldly knowledge does to them.
16:28He becomes a mirror.
16:30He displays their life to them.
16:38How does the saint prevent the clever ones from making trouble with their wits?
16:43In the same way.
16:47See what your cleverness is bringing to you.
16:52It's obvious and no one knows that better than you because you are bearing the results.
16:59Please see whether you are really free, really blissful.
17:05Please see whether you really like the state you are in.
17:10These are the questions that he asks.
17:15He implores them to fight their real battles.
17:23Sometimes he assists them in fighting their battles.
17:29Sometimes he even fights their battles on their behalf.