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O son, you have become habitual of thinking "I am body" since long. Experience the Self and by this sword of knowledge cut that bondage and be happy.
~ Ashtavakra Gita (Chapter 1, verse 14)
~ How can I not be the body?
~ Does body really have a separate identity?
~ How to test that I and the body are two different identities?
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Description:
In this video, Acharya ji discusses the purpose of life, emphasizing that it is closely tied to our personal experiences and the challenges we face. He suggests that life is essentially about how we experience the present moment, including our past memories and future imaginations.
Acharya ji encourages viewers to identify what troubles them in their lives and to delve deeply into these issues. He argues that finding solutions to the core of our troubles can reveal the true purpose of life. He uses the metaphor of an uncomfortable chair to illustrate that focusing on superficial problems distracts us from addressing the fundamental issues that cause our discomfort.
He further explains that the purpose of life is to gain freedom from limitations and to challenge our boundaries. Acharya ji warns against pursuing goals dictated by others, as this can lead to disappointment and a sense of failure. Instead, he advocates for setting personal goals that resonate with one's internal condition. He concludes by stating that even if one fails while pursuing a meaningful challenge, that effort can still be considered a success.
Context:
O son, you have become habitual of thinking "I am body" since long. Experience the Self and by this sword of knowledge cut that bondage and be happy.
~ Ashtavakra Gita (Chapter 1, verse 14)
~ How can I not be the body?
~ Does body really have a separate identity?
~ How to test that I and the body are two different identities?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .
#AcharyaPrashant #आचार्यप्रशांत #Philosophy #BhagavadGita #vedanta
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00:00:00Anissa Bhute has asked, quoting from Ishtavakra Gita, Chapter 1, Verse 14.
00:00:23O son, you have become habitual of thinking, I am body since long.
00:00:39Recognize the self and by this sword of knowledge, cut that bondage and be happy.
00:00:56Ishtavakra Gita, Chapter 1, Verse 14, Dear Acharyaji, in the verse above it is mentioned
00:01:03that one is constantly identified with the body, I feel I am deeply identified with the
00:01:07body most of the time.
00:01:09How do I start detaching myself from this body identification?
00:01:14Being a woman, I find it more difficult because of the social and physical conditioning.
00:01:20But listening to you Acharyaji, I now feel that there is some way to go beyond it and
00:01:26you are pointing at that.
00:01:28I am unable to see it clearly, but I don't know why I still have faith that surely there
00:01:34is a way, kindly guide.
00:01:40The question is how do I start detaching myself from the body, how to get rid of body identification?
00:01:58You can have a small vessel, Anisa, which contains small pieces of many metals.
00:02:27Iron, Aluminium, Nickel, Copper and happily they go together, they are all kept in the
00:02:51same vessel, they have been coexisting since long and being in the company of each other,
00:03:01they have all started appearing as one, very very similar.
00:03:18But what happens when you just bring a strong magnet near that vessel?
00:03:31It is then that the iron pieces just lose their old company and rise towards
00:03:44the magnet.
00:03:48And now the difference between iron and the others is very clear.
00:04:01There is no similarity at all, one has a love for magnet the others do not have.
00:04:13But this difference becomes clear only when a magnet is around, otherwise iron and copper
00:04:27and zinc will all hang around as if they belong to the same fraternity.
00:04:44You require a strong magnetic pull to disrupt their bonhomie, unless that magnetic pull
00:04:53is there, iron will keep feeling that aluminium is my best friend.
00:05:02The moment the magnetic field engulfs the iron piece and others, the iron piece comes
00:05:13to know that aluminium, copper, zinc, they are all nothing.
00:05:21The destiny of iron is to be with the magnet and turn magnetic in due course.
00:05:37So you see as long as your intentions and the body's intentions are one, you will have
00:05:45no way to clearly see that you and body are not one.
00:05:54Understand this, as long as your intentions and the body's intentions are one, how will
00:06:02you see that you are not the body?
00:06:06What the body is asking for, you too are asking for.
00:06:10The direction that the body is going towards, you too are moving in that direction.
00:06:18There is no way to figure out that these two entities, the body and the self are not one.
00:06:28It is only in the presence of something, somebody, who appeals to the body but not
00:06:42to the self, or the presence of something or somebody who appeals greatly to the self
00:06:50but not at all to the body, that you will come to see the distinction.
00:06:56Otherwise there is no way.
00:06:59If you are not close to a magnet, you will keep feeling that copper is your brother.
00:07:11The magnet is the test.
00:07:22The magnet is the disruptive presence.
00:07:31The magnet clears all doubts in the copper's mind.
00:07:38The magnet pulls and the copper feels no pull at all.
00:07:44Nairan says, this Bhagir, he has been with me as my friend, as my family, since so long.
00:07:54He is referring to aluminum and copper and all these others.
00:08:05And he feels no attraction towards the one I feel inexorably pulled towards.
00:08:13How can he be my friend or family?
00:08:19The magnetic field beckons.
00:08:22I find myself helpless in front of it.
00:08:26But all these similar looking ones surrounding me behave as if nothing has happened.
00:08:44They know no love.
00:08:46It is then that the distinction is established beyond doubt.
00:09:05You have to enter situations that test the two of you, the body and the I-sense, the self.
00:09:29Yesterday we were talking of the iron statue and the wax statue.
00:09:35And the two can look exactly the same.
00:09:40And the two can keep going around merrily.
00:09:42Oh, we belong to the same class.
00:09:47It is in the presence of heat that the two will learn how dissimilar they are.
00:09:55Unless you turn up the heat, how will you know the difference?
00:10:00You have to turn up the heat.
00:10:23You see, you can have, again, an iron piece and a nickel piece
00:10:36somehow joined together through welding or some other technique.
00:10:45A little iron cuboid and a copper or aluminum or nickel cuboid of the same shape, same dimensions.
00:11:02And you can put them together.
00:11:07And the two will stay together.
00:11:14It will appear that they are now happily joined.
00:11:20But raise the temperature.
00:11:25The coefficient of expansion of iron is very different from that of aluminum.
00:11:32The moment you raise the temperature, this joint block starts getting distorted.
00:11:38Because one expands more than the other.
00:11:42The two have been put together.
00:11:47But the moment you raise the heat, you find that one of them is behaving differently compared
00:11:52to the other.
00:11:54So this joint piece starts getting distorted.
00:11:58It starts getting bent.
00:12:02Now you know that the two are a mismatch.
00:12:06The two cannot go together.
00:12:08You have to bring in extraordinary situations.
00:12:13You have to bring in uncomfortable situations.
00:12:16Unless you bring in uncomfortable situations, the truth is not exposed.
00:12:21It is only when you bring in situations that are a little out of the ordinary that you
00:12:26come to know of the essence of an entity.
00:12:37So as long as the body wants food and you say, I too want food, there would be good
00:12:46peace, nice camaraderie.
00:12:52Body says, I want sleep and you say, I too want sleep.
00:13:00All would be Ganga Ho.
00:13:05No strains, no tensions.
00:13:11Because the two of you are acquiescing with each other.
00:13:16There is no divergence in objectives.
00:13:22But let the body say, I want food.
00:13:26And you utter in the same moment, I want freedom.
00:13:29And then you see what happens.
00:13:31That is the moment when you will realize you and the body are not one.
00:13:34The body will suddenly become your enemy.
00:13:39And that is the way to assess the quality of company you are keeping.
00:13:53You start asking for something that is a little extraordinary.
00:13:58And then you will realize how your partner, your friend immediately refuses to keep pace
00:14:08with you.
00:14:11Body says food.
00:14:12You say, I too want food.
00:14:16Happy friendship.
00:14:18Your partner says sex.
00:14:20You say, I too want sex.
00:14:21Happy friendship.
00:14:22But body says, I want food.
00:14:27You say, I want freedom.
00:14:28And then you see how there is a breakup.
00:14:34And then you will realize you are not the body.
00:14:35For that to happen, I said you have to first of all put yourself in a strong magnetic field.
00:14:42You have to start asking for freedom.
00:14:45You have to put yourself in a situation where love calls you.
00:14:49And then you will realize that that which you love, this associate of yours called the
00:14:57body does not love at all.
00:15:00You love freedom.
00:15:01The body does not.
00:15:03In fact, the more you move towards freedom, the more the body cringes.
00:15:11The reason is simple.
00:15:12The more you are attached to the body, the better it is for the body's welfare.
00:15:22The more you move towards freedom, the more the body starts feeling neglected.
00:15:27You know, it is a great misconception that the spiritual man, the God-loving man will
00:15:42have a long life with good health.
00:15:48It is not so at all.
00:15:51In fact, the one who is very, very body-centric will have a long life with good health.
00:16:03Look at all the men and women who live absolutely body-identified lives.
00:16:10See how their skin glows.
00:16:16They are the ones who are going to live till 110.
00:16:20All the time they are doing nothing but caring for the body.
00:16:24They are taking care of every single vitamin, nutrient, mineral.
00:16:28Every two months they are going and getting a full body checkup.
00:16:33All the time they are just busy thinking about what to eat, what not to eat, and at what
00:16:37hour to eat, when to sleep, when to wake up, what kind of soap to use.
00:16:45They are the ones who will live till 110.
00:16:47The God-loving man will actually not live for too long.
00:16:53Well, some exceptions are there, that's okay.
00:17:07But because this misconception, this superstition is there that the Jnani or Yogi will have
00:17:18a strong and able body, therefore people start feeling impressed by God-men who move around
00:17:30with black hair even at the age of 60 or 70.
00:17:36They say this one must be very real.
00:17:39Look at the glow on his face and his hair are all black even at 65.
00:17:52If you take good care of hair, the hair will remain black.
00:17:56If you do nothing all day but take care of oils and lotions and conditioners and all
00:18:09the toiletries and cosmetic stuff that is there in the market, obviously your skin will
00:18:13heavily glow like radium.
00:18:22That's what the body wants.
00:18:24You stay identified with it and you keep doing what it wants you to do.
00:18:34And the body strongly reacts when you start doing what the body is not conditioned to
00:18:41do.
00:18:42No body is conditioned to go for love.
00:18:51No body has any intention to attain freedom.
00:18:57Body is not born to attain freedom, please.
00:19:02Body is not born to revel in love.
00:19:07The body is not born to understand.
00:19:12You know what the body is for.
00:19:16You know what the body likes.
00:19:20Have you ever gone to a doctor and the doctor's diagnosis has said that you know your body
00:19:26is sick because you do not have bodh or understanding?
00:19:33Does the body ever fall sick because of lack of understanding?
00:19:40Does the body ever fall sick because you do not have spiritual freedom, which means that
00:19:49the body does not feel bad at all if there is no understanding or illumination or freedom.
00:19:58If there is no freedom, the body does not feel bad at all.
00:20:02Had the body felt bad over lack of understanding, then all the 99% people in the world who do
00:20:11not understand anything at all would have remained chronically sick.
00:20:15Do you find them sick?
00:20:16No.
00:20:17In fact, they are bodily.
00:20:19The most healthy and happy.
00:20:23This will tell you that the body has no intention at all to understand.
00:20:29The body has no intention at all to dive into love.
00:20:32The body does not want to be free.
00:20:34The body does not care for the truth.
00:20:41In medical science, in hospitals, do they teach you that if you want to stay physically
00:20:53healthy then you must have the truth?
00:20:56Is that what they teach you?
00:20:57No.
00:20:58To stay physically healthy, you do not need the truth.
00:21:06You need a lot of body centricity.
00:21:08Unfortunately, even spirituality today has become so body centric that all that is being
00:21:16taught in the name of spiritual welfare is bodily welfare.
00:21:20They are teaching you how to keep this organ fit, that organ fit, this kind of exercise,
00:21:26that kind of asana.
00:21:30That's all just body centered activity.
00:21:36The body, I repeat, will live very happily till 110 even if you do not have the truth
00:21:43at all.
00:21:49And the body will react and resist vigorously when you start diverting your energies towards
00:21:57the truth rather than physical upkeep.
00:22:02Now the body will say, what the hell is going on?
00:22:04Earlier you used to care so much for me.
00:22:08But now all your attention and energy is going towards something called truth or freedom.
00:22:13Now the body will strongly react.
00:22:16The body will say, nothing doing.
00:22:19We cannot move along like this, break up.
00:22:23You used to give me so much attention.
00:22:26Now you are giving me no attention.
00:22:28You don't give me any time.
00:22:29All your time is going towards the scriptures.
00:22:31All your time is going towards sadhana.
00:22:33I just don't like this.
00:22:36Please, please pamper me.
00:22:41The moment you start moving towards the truth, there develops a strain between your relationship
00:22:48with the body.
00:22:54And then you know that you are not the body.
00:22:56That strain has to come.
00:22:57Unless that strain comes, you and body will be bedfellows.
00:23:06It is only the presence of truth that separates the real from the unreal.
00:23:25Therefore you will see a Nisar.
00:23:30That if somehow you are determined to stay with the body as a body identified one, then
00:23:46you will distance yourself from the truth.
00:23:50There is you, there is the body or the one who gives you bodily company, a bodily friend
00:23:58and then there is the truth.
00:24:03If you want to maintain this relationship with the bodily one, then you will have no
00:24:13option but to snap your relationship with the truth.
00:24:17You cannot have both.
00:24:19Because if you have both, then there will be an incredible strain in your relationship.
00:24:26Both ways.
00:24:36You really want to test your company and the body is your first company.
00:24:42You know that, right?
00:24:45If you want to really test your company, then I say put yourself in an environment
00:24:53where the interests of the two of you diverge.
00:25:02That's when you receive surprises, rather shocks.
00:25:11And it's often what you call as a heartbreaking surprise.
00:25:16Because you used to think the two of us are so alike.
00:25:21The two of us are made of the same clay.
00:25:26The two of us were to live and die together.
00:25:33Now what has this happened?
00:25:41Suddenly there is a parting of ways.
00:25:48And I say therefore when you do not want the ways to part, often you try to not enter the
00:25:56field at all.
00:25:58Because you enter the field and the true would be separated from the false.
00:26:07If you do not want to be separated, then the best way is to avoid the field itself.
00:26:15The body is a very happy companion as long as you do what it wants you to do.
00:26:26The body is a very very irate co-passenger when you have your own real and genuine agenda
00:26:37to follow.
00:26:38The body just does not like it.
00:26:40The body says you better follow my agenda.
00:26:45And your agenda is not merely different from that of the body.
00:26:48It is at odds.
00:26:52If you do what you must do, then you cannot do what the body wants you to do.
00:27:01So there cannot even be a peaceful coexistence.
00:27:04You cannot even say, well, we appreciate our differences, but we still live together.
00:27:11It is not possible.
00:27:14Because the two of you are not merely different.
00:27:18The two of you are in some way dangerous to each other.
00:27:34And now you know why historically, traditionally, the world has both revered and reviled sannyas
00:27:51and spirituality.
00:27:54On one hand, the sannyasi has been given a lot of respect.
00:27:58On the other hand, the sannyasi has been an object of rebuke.
00:28:07He has been reviled as being impotent, unproductive, a mere burden.
00:28:21Householders respect monks and seers, but the moment one from within the house seems
00:28:36drifting in the direction of spirituality, the entire house starts shaking.
00:28:48Because the houses we have are built on bodily foundations.
00:28:54Man and woman come together and the house is raised.
00:29:01And the body and the self cannot go together.
00:29:09Their priorities, their aims are very, very different.
00:29:29Are you getting it?
00:29:53If it's just about taxiing on the runway, then the airplane and the pantry car can be
00:30:13very good friends.
00:30:17Both are moving side by side.
00:30:19There's a difference in their size.
00:30:22You know, the pantry car is small.
00:30:25The jumbo jet is big.
00:30:27But they both are taxiing on the same plane, same level, same ground.
00:30:40They can even get married.
00:30:45After all, she feeds him.
00:30:47She's the pantry car and he's big.
00:30:50He can take care of her.
00:30:52That's how marriages happen.
00:30:57Or the fuel car, whatever.
00:31:03But the entire love affair is abruptly and cruelly jolted and shattered.
00:31:16When the plane takes off.
00:31:19Now the pantry car is abusing and accusing him of being disloyal.
00:31:26You were supposed to remain on the ground along with me.
00:31:30If you wanted to move, the two of us could have happily moved together on the ground.
00:31:36You have wheels.
00:31:38I too have wheels.
00:31:40But as far as you are concerned, you not only have wheels, you also have wings.
00:31:47The body has just wheels.
00:31:52If you want to sacrifice your wings, then marry the pantry car.
00:32:02She'll be very happy.
00:32:03She'll be very happy.
00:32:12The body is the pantry car, full of food.
00:32:18And because she cannot fly, so she demands that you too do not fly.
00:32:26If you want to learn the difference between yourself and her, then take off.
00:32:36Take off.
00:32:40And then you will see how the relationship snaps.
00:32:52Try going towards the food plaza.
00:32:53The body will say, yo, I'm with you.
00:33:02Try going towards a real temple, a real temple and see how the body starts aching
00:33:16and feeling drowsy.
00:33:19And all kinds of things start happening in the body.
00:33:24So, she does not want you to go to there.
00:33:28What will she get if you come to know the truth?
00:33:31She will only get
00:33:37neglect from you.
00:33:39And the body knows that.
00:33:41The body knows that if you go to the real temple, she will earn neglect.
00:33:47The moment you start going towards the real temple, something will happen.
00:33:54In all our camps, there definitely are cases when people do not turn up.
00:34:03Even after making all due preparations, they book their tickets, they take their leaves,
00:34:13they come and contribute in advance.
00:34:16They have done all that was needed to be done.
00:34:19They even book their stay and fooding, accommodation, all those things.
00:34:32On the eve of the camp, they suddenly develop diarrhea.
00:34:40Happens every time.
00:34:41The body has
00:34:49sensed something.
00:34:54Something very disastrous is going to happen.
00:34:59Please, let's stop it.
00:35:07And your entire system gets activated to prevent you from doing what you must.
00:35:19So, there will be diarrhea.
00:35:21There will be strange waves and thoughts in the brain.
00:35:26The intestines and the brain of the person who is going to go to the real temple.
00:35:31Strange waves and thoughts in the brain.
00:35:34The intestines and the brain are one, right?
00:35:37Both are parts of the body.
00:35:38The intestines will stop you by running diarrhea.
00:35:44And the brain will stop you by running thoughts.
00:35:50And you will have all kinds of nonsense.
00:35:53You will come up with fantastic arguments.
00:35:56You know, am I qualified enough to go to the camp?
00:36:01I have not even done my post-graduation.
00:36:10Am I qualified to go to the camp?
00:36:12My name starts with B.
00:36:16B is such a funny letter.
00:36:20B. I don't deserve to go to the camp.
00:36:23Or you'll have some other fantastic argument of your own.
00:36:27You know, once upon a time, I used to have the right reasons to go to the camp.
00:36:33But now, situations have changed.
00:36:38You see, so I will not come.
00:36:43It is not you.
00:36:44It is the body.
00:36:47And the body is the body.
00:36:49It is not you.
00:36:50It is the body.
00:36:52And you don't even realize that.
00:36:55It's the intestines.
00:37:00It's the brain.
00:37:01It's the ovary and the testicles.
00:37:05It's they
00:37:11who's talking so loudly.
00:37:13It's not your argument.
00:37:14It's coming from there.
00:37:18Eggs are dancing and bouncing.
00:37:35The hair and the tortoise can stay happily married
00:37:44till it comes to a point where it is seen
00:37:49that running
00:37:56is needed.
00:37:59Running is urgent.
00:38:04Gone.
00:38:11So, if you want to stay body identified, do what the body wants you to do.
00:38:16There will be no problem.
00:38:19If you want to test whether you really are the body,
00:38:22then do what you must do and face a lot of problems.
00:38:31In some sense, spirituality is not the art of getting rid of problems.
00:38:36It is the art of unearthing problems.
00:38:42And when problems are unearthed, it almost feels that problems have been created
00:38:48where they were none.
00:38:52Because if the problems are all lying hidden below the surface,
00:38:56how does that bother you?
00:38:57In spirituality, you unearth the problems.
00:39:02You dig them out.
00:39:05Which means that the spiritual man actually faces many more problems than the ordinary mortal.
00:39:13The ordinary mortal lives happily with his body.
00:39:17A relationship of pleasure and gratification.
00:39:26The spiritual man is for a very long period at odds with his body.
00:39:36He has a very uncomfortable relationship with the body.
00:39:38I know what I'm saying.
00:39:42It's squarely opposite of what you have heard about the spiritual man.
00:39:47That he's well settled with the body and such things.
00:39:50And you know, the yogi moves around.
00:39:54In total harmony of mind, body and soul.
00:40:09All that is just romantic experientialism.
00:40:26Create an image of the yogi where he is, you know, the personification of
00:40:33harmony.
00:40:43Advertising a blissful smile on his face.
00:40:48And obviously the hair are silky smooth.
00:40:56The skin is baby soft.
00:41:11And he's full of all kinds of energies, even at the age of 75.
00:41:18You ask him to father five kids at one go, he still can.
00:41:23Let him be 75 or 85.
00:41:26That's the yogi, you know, V. Ravan.
00:41:33Sorry, sir, it doesn't quite happen that way.
00:41:41If you really want a stout body and long life.
00:41:53And baby's soft skin.
00:41:58Then you should stay very, very far away from any kind of spirituality.
00:42:12Instead of going to satsang, take membership of a spa or a beauty saloon.
00:42:37Or go to some commercial yoga shop.
00:42:41Spirituality is not about leading a happy life.
00:43:11It is about leading a real life.
00:43:13And there is a great difference there.
00:43:14Please understand that.
00:43:21Reality and happiness are very rarely coincidental.
00:43:32That does not mean that reality corresponds with sadness.
00:43:35Not with sadness, but definitely not with happiness.
00:43:50Does the spiritual man's body have to be definitely sick and frail?
00:43:55No, not that.
00:43:57By chance, it can be healthy and strong as well.
00:44:08But just by chance, he won't be aiming to have a healthy body.
00:44:12His aim is different.
00:44:16He's aiming to go beyond the stars.
00:44:20If the body remains healthy in the process, wonderful.
00:44:24If the healthy body is needed to go beyond the stars, he will give some attention to the body.
00:44:29Just because it is needed to fulfill his goal.
00:44:33But the body as such will not be his concern.
00:44:40He will use the body like a vehicle.
00:44:44The vehicle is important as long as it serves to take you to the destination.
00:44:53Only to that extent.
00:45:03Use this method to test all your relationships, Anissa.
00:45:10Anybody and everybody.
00:45:18There would be people who would be coming over to you to talk a lot.
00:45:24As long as you talk to them about things that they prefer, they'll stay put.
00:45:38Now, if you want to test the relationship, if you want to test the quality of your company,
00:45:42start talking real stuff with them or just block the body-centric stuff with them.
00:45:50Because sometimes people can't tolerate spiritual stuff if it promises to bring you the body.
00:45:59The man can happily talk scriptures to the woman if he knows that after two hours of scripture talk,
00:46:06he will get her in the bed.
00:46:08So two hours of good knowledgeable stuff is all right.
00:46:13If that would help me inch closer to her body.
00:46:16So do two things.
00:46:19One, start talking real stuff.
00:46:21Secondly, start blocking the nonsense.
00:46:25And then you will see who stays with you and who does not.
00:46:32Do both of these things concurrently.
00:46:36Start talking the real things.
00:46:39Start blocking all the unreal gossip.
00:46:42Don't participate in it.
00:46:44And then you will see who keeps sitting and who walks away.
00:46:55And then you will see who does not.
00:46:57And then you will see who keeps sitting and who walks away.
00:47:11But we don't apply this test.
00:47:14Somewhere, we have a notion that in certain relationships, the real things need not be talked
00:47:24off.
00:47:26So when it comes to people you are intimate with, you just don't talk the real stuff.
00:47:33For example, you can talk about spirituality with some friend.
00:47:37Who is not very, very close to you.
00:47:39But you won't want to talk spirituality to your mother or to your father or to your wife.
00:47:45It is very strange.
00:47:47Even deeply spiritual people do not talk spirituality to their wives or to their husbands.
00:47:59Because you know that they are not really close to you.
00:48:02Or to their husbands.
00:48:06Because you know very well that the moment you bring that up in the conversation,
00:48:11the relationship will snap.
00:48:13She will say, if this is what you have to talk about, then we can't go together.
00:48:20You talk to me on my terms.
00:48:26I want you to talk stuff that I prefer to listen to.
00:48:32And I will decide the topics.
00:48:39Why don't you apply this test?
00:48:42All of you.
00:48:44Start talking real things with people who are in your vicinity.
00:48:51And simultaneously, start blocking all the nonsense.
00:48:57The moment the fellow addresses you in a bodily way, block him.
00:49:06And there are many ways in which to provoke body sense in you.
00:49:16Nobody needs to formally say, I look at you as a body.
00:49:27You need not formally say that.
00:49:28You just need to tell the girl, hey fatty, now what are you referring to?
00:49:37Is the soul fatty?
00:49:41You are constantly reminding her that I look at you as a body.
00:49:50This relationship is evil.
00:49:52And you are quite smart.
00:49:54Even without directly saying that I am the body and I want to feast upon your body,
00:50:00you are constantly developing a body sense in the other by referring to the other in a bodily way.
00:50:09See who all refer to you in a bodily way, avoid them.
00:50:23Just see who all refer to you in a bodily way.
00:50:27Avoid them.
00:50:29Or test them, say fine, I don't want to avoid you.
00:50:35But can we discuss chapter three, chapter four, chapter five, chapter six?
00:50:44And then finally, can we discuss chapter one, chapter two, chapter three?
00:50:49test them, say fine I don't want to avoid you.
00:50:56But can we discuss chapter 3 of Avadhut Gita tonight, darling?
00:51:06And darling is all hot and up and loaded, and then you say Avadhut Gita?
00:51:20That's such a big letdown.
00:51:28Darling is saying, cutie, what happened to you?
00:51:42Somebody says you are my doll, what is he saying?
00:51:58And it is so widespread and so accepted and so subtle that it just passes below your radar.
00:52:09You don't even detect it, how will you stop it?
00:53:09You don't need to chase the party animals away, you only need to change the track.
00:53:29Bring on Kabir Saheb or some Ravindra Sangeet.
00:53:35You need not be actively shouting at them, go away, go away, you are drunk.
00:53:52And you are dancing to all the wrong numbers, you don't need to do all this.
00:53:55Let the party continue, just bring on the right kind of music.
00:54:01The party animals will disappear on their own.
00:54:07That's spirituality, bringing on the right music.
00:54:16Spirituality does not mean that the music will vanish, it means now you are man enough
00:54:30to bring on the right music.
00:54:34And then, after all the animals have disappeared, if one or two beings still stay back, then
00:54:43they are worth it.
00:54:45They are the ones who deserve your company, be with them.
00:54:52And if you don't find anybody who stays back, it's okay.
00:54:59You have the company of the music.
00:55:18Treat the body as a companion and see how this companion behaves when you fulfill its
00:55:26demands and how it behaves.
00:55:28When you do something that is for your own welfare.
00:55:35This companion is very, very selfish, very greedy.
00:55:39It cares only about itself.
00:55:43It has no respect for what you want to do and attain.
00:55:53The body is a really bad life partner.
00:55:59You have been saddled with someone who has no empathy, no understanding of who you are.
00:56:09It only knows its own interests and it just won't compromise on them.
00:56:24You have an exam tomorrow morning and right now the body wants to sleep.
00:56:31The body has no empathy at all for your objectives.
00:56:41You very well know that you have an urgent task at hand but the body is yelling for food.
00:56:59You very well know that the fellow in front of you is a teacher.
00:57:07But the body cannot stop looking at her as a sex object and you are telling the body
00:57:18she is not a sex object, she is my teacher.
00:57:21Body says no, she is a great figure.
00:57:27The body has no respect for who you are.
00:57:47That's why I keep saying that the first tragedy is birth itself.
00:57:51You are not born alone.
00:57:54You are born welded to the body.
00:58:00The two of you are born together and the two of you cannot go together.
00:58:07Born together but can't live together but have to live together.
00:58:16Live together not in the sense of reaching a compromise.
00:58:21The two of you have to live together and one of you will rule.
00:58:27It cannot be, I repeat, a peaceful coexistence.
00:58:30It cannot be a harmonious thing.
00:58:35One of you has to prevail.
00:58:38Either you will live as the body or the body will have to surrender to your power.
00:58:47You will have to display your might to the body.
00:58:49You will have to conquer the body.
00:58:54If you cannot conquer the body, the body will conquer you.
00:59:04I repeat, if you cannot conquer the body, you will have to be enslaved.
00:59:31So forget all your notions of divine harmony between mind, body and soul.
00:59:37It's a war and one and only one will win, either you or the body.
00:59:46That which you call as the mind is not much more than the body.
00:59:54There is you, the conscious entity and body, the conditioned one.
01:00:06It's a battle between consciousness and compulsive conditioning.
01:00:16One of them has to prevail, either your consciousness or the conditioning of the body.
01:00:29Spirituality is war.
01:00:37You are being trained to fight and win.
01:00:49Neither can you abandon this battle nor can you make peace with the enemy.
01:00:55The war has to be fought.
01:01:10But if you can fight the war and win it, then I tell you the body is a useful slave, a very
01:01:23good slave.
01:01:24If it starts obeying your commands, but you will have to domesticate it.
01:01:32Till the point you have not domesticated it, it's a wild threat.
01:01:42You will have to turn the wild wolf into a pet dog.
01:01:48You will have to render it useful.
01:01:53And that is yoga.
01:01:56Yoga is about domesticating the body.
01:01:58That is the only way there can be harmony.
01:02:02Harmony cannot come by shaking hands with the enemy.
01:02:08In your case, in the case that is human life, harmony can come only by prevailing upon the
01:02:15enemy.
01:02:17Prevail upon the enemy and then the enemy becomes a very useful and obedient servant.
01:02:23That is yoga.