Video Information: 24.10.2021, IIT-Bombay session (Online), Rishikesh
Context:
~ Are you afraid about your future?
~ How to overcome the fear of the future?
~ What is fear?
~ What is fear of failure?
~ How to overcome fear of failure?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant #IIT-bombay #Maya
Context:
~ Are you afraid about your future?
~ How to overcome the fear of the future?
~ What is fear?
~ What is fear of failure?
~ How to overcome fear of failure?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
#acharyaprashant #IIT-bombay #Maya
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00:00We also had a question from audience, from Aditya, it was like this, if God is unbiased,
00:13why there is difference in suffering for each life form on the planet and if it is karma,
00:19then why do we provide treatment to any patient or stand against any injustice or misery?
00:25You are coming to me with a lot of stories, too many stories and you are taking your stories
00:31as absolute and you want me to participate in your stories.
00:37You are saying if God is unbiased, why is there so much suffering in the world and why
00:40do people suffer differently and if there is somebody suffering, why should we offer
00:46the fellow help at all and such things.
00:49First of all, let us address the fundamental assumption.
00:52The fundamental assumption is that there is something called a God who made the world
00:56and that justice or equanimity must be a value with that God.
01:06You are projecting and probably not even realizing that you are projecting or maybe as I said
01:10you have a stake in that projection.
01:15Why do you think that, first of all, a creating entity, a creator does exist in the same way
01:26this world exists, first of all, secondly, why do you think that all the values that
01:32you hold dear to your chest must be espoused by that God as well?
01:41If you like somebody to be merciful to you, so you say, oh God is merciful, how do you
01:46know God is merciful, are you bigger than God, have you penetrated God's head, if there
01:52exists somebody called God at all, first place.
01:58You know what we are doing is, let us please see, go step by step, in this world we find
02:04that everything that stands created has a creator as well, correct?
02:11So, we extrapolate, we say, you know, this mobile phone, for example, came from a factory,
02:20there was a creating agency, there was a principle involving causation, similarly this universe
02:31is there, the planets are there and so many, so there has to be a creator, don't you see
02:37what you are doing?
02:38You are taking yourself as the absolute, you are saying, because in my world, in my experience,
02:47everything has a creator, therefore this universe must have a creator, so what is at the core
02:54of your argument?
02:55You are at the center of your argument, you are saying, it is my experience, it is my
02:59experience and my experience is absolute, therefore the world must have a creator.
03:08If this argument is to hold, then the world has only one creator and that is you, because
03:16you are the absolute in your own eyes, you are saying, I hope I am not just running away
03:24too fast, I hope we are together in this.
03:29Look at the construction of the argument, please, these are very juvenile, childish
03:34things, some God sitting somewhere and deciding to create the universe one fine day and he
03:40has nothing better to do than control the strings and pull up someone and punish the
03:45other one and reward someone and answer prayers and do this and that, these things are good
03:52for five-year-olds.
03:59The world as you perceive it is your own creation.
04:05The world as you perceive it is your own creation, kindly do not attribute some other creative
04:21agency, therefore Advaita Vedanta has no space for God, Atma or Brahm are not God, truth
04:34is not God, in fact there are only two kinds of people in the world, one who speak the
04:43language of God or absence of God, theists and atheists, they belong to one bracket and
04:58then there are those who speak the language of truth, are you getting it?
05:07If you speak the language of God and no God and such things, I believe in God, I don't
05:14believe in God and there are huge debates, then essentially you are an egoist, not only
05:22are you an egoist, you want to continue being an egoist because the God that man talks of
05:33is nothing but his ego and the God that man denies is again nothing but his ego, so I
05:43bracketed these two together, theists, atheists and then there are those who want to transcend
05:53themselves, who want to go beyond the ego, they say the ego is for sure false, I want
06:02to proceed into the truth, that's an entirely different category, a different dimension,
06:11are you getting it?
06:15When you start seeing the falseness within, then all this that you call as the creation
06:25also starts dissolving for you, starts losing its meanings, the two stand together and fall
06:33together, the experiencer and the experienced object, the seer and the seen, when you want
06:48to come to the truth, then both these suffer dissolution and that is called spiritual progress,
06:58that is called alleviation of suffering.