#AcharyaPrashant #आचार्यप्रशांत #Philosophy #BhagavadGita #iitmadras #suicide #students #parenting
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Video Information: 29.09.23, IIT-Madras (Online), Greater Noida
Context:
~ Why students are doing suicide ?
~ What harm are causing of unrealistic goal's to students ?
~ Who are culprit for this suicides ?
~ What is real success ?
~ Why parents need to be qualify to raise the kinds ?
~ Why inner education is important for kids ?
~ What are the most fundamental need of mind ?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 29.09.23, IIT-Madras (Online), Greater Noida
Context:
~ Why students are doing suicide ?
~ What harm are causing of unrealistic goal's to students ?
~ Who are culprit for this suicides ?
~ What is real success ?
~ Why parents need to be qualify to raise the kinds ?
~ Why inner education is important for kids ?
~ What are the most fundamental need of mind ?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00The outcome of the conversation would decide actively the fate of many million residents
00:21of the kingdom.
00:22Not just figuratively, literally, life and death depend on this discourse.
00:26Therefore, this discourse has so much potency.
00:29Arjun is the real life student, not the ideal disciple.
00:35Therefore, Krishna's persuasion has the cutting edge mastery.
00:40That's what happened with Arjun as well.
00:44So the Bhagavad Gita is such a real and captivating story.
00:48Hello Acharya ji.
00:50I wanted to ask about the recent suicides, multiple suicides which happened in top institutes
00:58of the country which included our institute as well.
01:01So I wanted to know what is the reason behind these suicides which are occurring in the
01:05country and is it due to societal pressure or academic pressure?
01:11You see, a kid is a very dependent being, very dependent so the kid is heavily exploited.
01:26You tell the kid that your life is worthless if you do not attain such and such goals and
01:38then you keep the goals so unrealistic and make the competition so severe by telling
01:49the same thing to every kid.
01:54That practically only 1% can attain the goals they have been conditioned to attain.
02:02What will happen to the remaining 99%?
02:10One of the most fundamental needs of the mind is to know itself.
02:16Who am I and why do I exist?
02:20Parents and educators never bother to address this question let alone answer it satisfactorily.
02:31Instead they indirectly, unconsciously supply you with a ready-made and junk answer.
02:39They say you exist to achieve.
02:41Achieve what?
02:42Stuff that we tell you to achieve.
02:46Who told you that working for some MNC and earning fat dollars is the purpose of life?
02:55Left to yourself, would you have ever come to this conclusion?
02:58Please tell me, any of you.
03:01In fact, left to yourself, most of you would have never bothered to appear for the JEE.
03:10But you have been told that such and such things are non-negotiable.
03:13You need to have these and everybody is telling you the same thing.
03:21And even that would have been alright, had you been helped to awaken your own capacity
03:31to inquire and know.
03:36If that capacity is awakened, then it does not matter what the entire world is telling
03:42you.
03:45Then you can keep everybody's opinion aside and say, I know on my own.
03:50I do not need to believe because I know.
03:57But the constant bombardment of propaganda is accompanied by an equivalent dehumanization
04:09of consciousness.
04:13Your consciousness is turned mechanical and animal, dehumanized.
04:19So these two things happen in tandem.
04:21One, you are told what things are all about.
04:25Secondly, you are actively discouraged from knowing on your own.
04:33If you know on your own, then you become some kind of a renegade, unacceptable, an uncontrollable
04:42rebel or something who needs to be straightened.
04:50So now the fellow comes and he has been given impossible targets to achieve and he has been
05:01told if he doesn't achieve those targets, then life is meaningless.
05:10Some of them buckle very sadly.
05:15All links in any chain do not carry the same strength.
05:19There are weak links, right?
05:22If you put undue pressure on the ends of the chain, some link will break.
05:29The fault does not belong to the link.
05:32You must question those who put the pressure.
05:45Great talent, great talent and what is that talent being told to do?
05:50That talent is being told, you know, you go somewhere and write code, random code.
05:59And if that random code is for one of the top companies, then you are successful.
06:05What success is there in this?
06:09Somebody is being told you go and work in a bank and you just do data all your day.
06:15What success is there in this?
06:17Had you not been being paid those big dollars, would you ever choose this kind of work?
06:24Please tell me.
06:29What success is there in all this?
06:32Somebody is selling shoes after doing computer science B.Tech from IIT Madras.
06:37What success is there in this?
06:40It's just that the company is a footwear giant, MNC footwear giant.
06:53And then you take pride.
06:55You don't take pride.
06:56Your parents take pride.
06:58Your parents take pride and the entire society takes pride.
07:03And then a few girls can come to you or their parents rather.
07:12The fellow is earning so, you know, how about a match?
07:19From all the directions, the message that is coming to you is there is this particular
07:25definition of success.
07:28If you cannot measure up to it, then life is not worth living.
07:37Some of our friends, unfortunately, take it very literally.
07:42They say if life is not worth living, why should we anyway continue living at all?
07:47You could say they are more logical than the rest of us.
07:54Culpability has to be fixed.
08:00Everybody who has been continuously teaching you that life exists just for the sake of
08:05material gratification is the culprit.
08:10Catch him.
08:12Justice needs to be done.
08:14Otherwise, this kind of trend will continue.
08:17It's not just about your campus.
08:18It's happening everywhere.
08:25Pressure by itself might not be necessarily a bad thing.
08:28But pressure for such nonsense?
08:33One fellow gave up his life because his elder brother was a super achiever.
08:39The elder brother was actually from an IIT.
08:41This fellow did not manage into an IIT.
08:43He was at some other place and there too he was not getting the desired kind of job offers.
08:52He quit.
08:54On one hand, I commiserate with the parents.
08:57On the other hand, one needs to have a straight word with them.
09:06What exactly are you feeding your kids on?
09:11Do most parents even deserve to be called parents?
09:16For any small project, you require at least some qualification.
09:23But for the project of raising a kid, you require zero qualification.
09:28All you need is, you know, one night of physical encounter.
09:35And then you say, I am a father and she is a mother and the two of us are qualified to
09:39raise the kid.
09:40How exactly are you qualified to raise the kid?
09:49This is nothing but symptomatic of a society where inner education is considered dispensable.
09:58Where we say that if you teach the student in history, geography, maths, science and
10:06the languages, that is sufficient.
10:09The student does not need to be given education in life, education of the self.
10:15That is not necessary.
10:17If that is not necessary, this will be the outcome and sadly this outcome might keep
10:24getting repeated.
10:28And that inner education, mind you, cannot come just naturally from the family or somewhere.
10:37Just as you require expert professors to teach you maths and physics, similarly you
10:43require experts to deliver life education.
10:49If that is not there, then the mind will remain very cluttered, very confused and ultimately
10:57sometimes suicidal.
11:02What a wastage.
11:08And what makes the wastage worse is that the lives of those, even those who survive are
11:16rendered waste.
11:18We talked about the fellow who is working in a footwear MNC, post is electrical engineering.
11:27Why should that not be considered an equal wastage of life?
11:34Or the fellow who decides to sell fizzy drinks.
11:39If you look at the IMs, for example, they attract a lot of crowd from the IITs.
11:46And what do these ITNs do passing out from the IMs?
11:51Somebody is selling fizzy drinks, somebody is selling home loans, that's an equal wastage.
12:04But we don't want to talk of that.
12:06We talk of that as gainful employment.
12:08In fact, we gloat over that.
12:11We say, you know, this is heroic.
12:15My journey has attained a three crore package and that sometimes comes to the newspapers
12:23as well.
12:30That should indeed come to the newspapers as a thing of tragedy, not as a matter of
12:37celebration.