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Video Information: 29.01.2021, Amne-Samne Camp, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
Context:
~ How to make people to stop eat animal flesh?
~ How make people to stop drinking milk?
~ How to be a real climate warrior?
~ How is eating flesh and drinking milk a cause of climate change?
~ What is the real solution to stop climate change?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 29.01.2021, Amne-Samne Camp, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
Context:
~ How to make people to stop eat animal flesh?
~ How make people to stop drinking milk?
~ How to be a real climate warrior?
~ How is eating flesh and drinking milk a cause of climate change?
~ What is the real solution to stop climate change?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00So Acharyaji, I see that I want to say a lot of things but I don't and I just be a coward.
00:19So for example, I saw a man whip a bull with a stick but he was doing it behind the ears
00:27under the chin where it really hurts and I wanted to go and just grab the stick and beat
00:33him with it or at least tell him something but I just ended up walking past and not doing anything.
00:40Similarly over here in the restaurants, today when I was going in my hotel there was this man
00:47with this plate of eggs and then this is supposed to be a city where everyone is supposedly very
00:52pious and holy and I wanted to smash the eggs on his face but I just walked up the stairs past him,
00:59I didn't even say anything but I was trembling inside and I notice I and when I do speak about
01:08it, so for example, when I told my sister that would you like someone to put his hand inside you
01:13and make you pregnant and then steal your baby so you could drink your milk, it comes off very
01:20harsh and it mostly, I mostly take the way of not rocking the boat because it would take a lot of,
01:30I wouldn't be able to walk 10 meters without saying anything. How do I guess, one, why am I
01:39such a coward and two, how do I get to that stage where I can give the sage counsel in a way that
01:47you do which is very gentle, when I do it, it comes off with a lot of force and.
01:54Whosoever tries it with his family members meets the same end. So, I might come across as gentle
02:02when talking to you all here but when I tried on people who have been intimate to me, the result
02:10is much the same, hardly any difference. See, on one hand you have to be vigorously eager, energetic
02:22and enthusiastic about this cause.
02:27On the other hand, you also have to be skilled and thoughtful like a good soldier.
02:41A good soldier does not waste himself on unnecessary battles.
02:47He preserves himself.
02:55The one who is whipping the bull can be stopped but here is my energy and my resources. Let's say,
03:05they amount to 100 units. What if 20 or 30 units of them are expended in just stopping this one
03:13petty fellow? It's not one bull that I want to save. I want to save the billions of living beings
03:24that are being slaughtered every day. But if 30% of my energy would be expended in this one
03:31particular cause, then am I not doing injustice to the rest of the ones that deserve to be saved?
03:37Are you getting it? So, while you have to have that fierce fire within, on the other hand,
03:49you have to remember that the soldiers are few and they cannot afford to waste themselves on
03:59little things. You very well know how badly outnumbered you are. You won't want to get
04:10into something that lands you in lockup or in courtroom battles. You would rather have
04:19a lawyer for all that. Let the lawyer take care of those things.
04:22The spiritual soldier, the religious warrior has to be extremely intelligent.
04:42You could go to the extent of saying that he has to be cunning in the service of truth.
04:50I am choosing this word with all deliberation. He has to be cunning in the service of the truth.
04:59Cunning enough to beat the most cunning ones.
05:06The difference between the cunningness of the two is that all the cunning ones have cunningness
05:15at their core. The soldier of truth has truth at his core and cunningness at the service of truth.
05:29Are you getting it? Just go to the battle of Mahabharata.
05:38There are so many occasions when Krishna tells Arjuna, this is not the time to pick up drone.
05:51Just obediently, respectfully go past him.
05:58Today is not the day Arjuna. Don't pick up this battle.
06:02And then he tells, Drona won't give up his arms so easily. Has to be Ashwatthaman Hatho.
06:32Getting it? First of all, you have to have Krishna at your center.
06:40And if you have Krishna at your center, use Maya very liberally.
06:50That's what my teacher says,
07:02she cheats all, but she can be cheated.
07:21No need to remain a simpleton.
07:24The image that we carry of the prophets, the saints, the sages, the rishis is very misleading.
07:37The way they have been presented to us is very conducive to our falsenesses and
07:46darknesses. We have been told that they were fellows
07:49who really did not have much to do with what was going on in the society.
07:55Almost like handicapped grandfathers at home who can do little except dispense sage council.
08:11Right? That's what all the oldies do at home.
08:16Octogenarians and Nanogenarians. The fellow is 94.
08:19What else can he do? He sits all day and talks to the extent possible.
08:27That's how we have painted our sages. Right?
08:34They were the ones who were not capable of doing much,
08:38but they kept on talking of all the nice things in life.
08:41They kept dispensing moral values, probably, you should be good, as he said,
08:50do not lie to people, sada sathya bollo.
08:54Now this kind of model of spirituality, I say, is conducive to nothing but
09:03falseness, evil, irreligiosity.
09:06The man of truth has to be extremely sharp here and this sharpness has to be devoted to this.
09:14This has to be used as a resource. Everything that you have has to be used as a resource.
09:22You know business management? Yes, I'll use that in the service of the truth.
09:28You know a language? Yes, I'll use that.
09:30You know a language? Yes, I'll use that.
09:35Whatsoever you have, including your cunning.
09:40Yes, I have a sharp intellect.
09:43When everything is to be used for the sake of truth, why not your sharpness?
09:54Why not? Tell me.
09:55You have to beat them at their game and you'll beat them because they play for themselves.
10:05So a point will come when they'll be afraid.
10:17They have too much at stake. They're doing it for their own self.
10:20You play the game for something beyond yourself. You'll never be afraid.
10:25In spite of drastically fewer resources, you'll still beat them because you'll not be afraid.
10:40A huge part of their resources will go towards defending themselves.
10:46A huge part of their resources will go towards defending themselves.
10:52And as far as you are concerned, everything that you have can be applied, deployed.
11:03So think, intellect, reason are very very important resources.
11:10They have to be used. You have to see how things can be done.
11:13This is no way.
11:18Tell me, people like you might just be 40 in number in this entire city.
11:25And if out of those 40, 12 start picking street fights with bull owners,
11:37then who will fight for spirituality?
11:39Maya will have a hearty laugh.
11:4312 out of 40 are gone fighting a minor battle.
11:53Every time you walk past a meat shop or you come across a menu containing a lot of flesh,
12:01let that harden your resolve.
12:03Let that harden your resolve.
12:09No point throwing that menu on the waiter's face. The waiter is a puny fellow.
12:16He didn't even write the menu. He has nothing to do with, not even the manager.
12:20What can the manager do? Not even the owner.
12:24There are bigger forces at work and you know what are those bigger forces?
12:27They are not a person. Those bigger forces are all of us.
12:34The darkness within the human mind, the darkness pervasive in mankind
12:39is the larger force that is making all those things possible.
12:43The only way to defeat that menu card is to remove the darkness in the mind of men.
12:54Getting it?
13:04It will hurt. You will see all these things happening. It will hurt.
13:09But use that hurt as a resource.
13:15Don't pretend that you aren't hurt.
13:18Acknowledge the hurt and be even more charged up using the hurt.
13:25Yes, I am hurt and I will take out every bit of it on you in an intelligent way.