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00:00I am a final year student at IIT BHU and currently my placement season is going on.
00:14Few days back, a very large liquor company came to our campus to recruit the graduating
00:19students.
00:20The way they represented themselves seems very hypocritic to me.
00:28Some of the arguments that they put were that their product is something that promotes conviviality,
00:37that promotes the joy of social gathering and friendliness.
00:43And the other is that their product is contributing in the economic development of the country.
00:49They are helping the farmers to grow.
00:52And the other points they were telling that they are spreading social responsible drinking
00:59in the country.
01:01But some of the advertisements of their brands doesn't seem very responsible like make it
01:08large or man will be man and all these things.
01:14And very horrific is that their goal for next decade is that they want to triple the production.
01:21And currently they are the second largest producer in the world.
01:26But the point I am concerned about is that I am very surprised.
01:32I was very surprised that nobody of my peer questioned about their false claims and hypocrisy of them.
01:41Instead they asked about abroad opportunities they will get, technologies they are using, what
01:50is the product segment they are having, are you inculcating industry 4.0 in it or not, all
01:57these kinds of questions.
01:58Nobody asked about CTC?
01:59Nobody asked about CTC?
02:00No.
02:01Actually they just show later.
02:04That's the only and the first question to be asked and after that no questions remain.
02:17Yes.
02:18If the package is fat enough, no more questions.
02:23But it would be, it was a very large company.
02:27But I am very certain that nobody asked about their false claims and the claim of response
02:33The claims are not false, they are just incomplete.
02:40Anything can be shown to have some so-called positive effects, anything, just about anything.
02:48Right?
02:49War has so many positive effects for example.
02:53So many of the technologies that you have today.
02:58They were either seeded or developed during the second world war.
03:08Right?
03:09And you could say when there is a war, then that leads to a great development of technology.
03:18Initially for military use and then it gets to a more general use.
03:23For example, the technology that goes into missiles later on contributes to the space programs
03:33of the nations.
03:35And obviously it can also lead to an increase in GDP.
03:42And in many other ways you can list the, as we said, the so-called positive effects of war.
03:52It arouses a nation.
03:56Very poetically you can say that the valiant spirit of a nation remains latent and asleep.
04:07It is only the war call that awakens it.
04:11So there have to be periodic wars.
04:13Every twenty years there must be a major war.
04:16So that the spirit of the nation gets awakened.
04:20All kinds of things you can enlist.
04:24The thing is, the list is not complete.
04:28Complete.
04:29Complete.
04:30Similarly alcohol can be stated to have these so-called positive things.
04:36Yes, friends get together and if there is alcohol then it brings about a certain felicity
04:43in the conversation.
04:45People open up and there might be a grain of truth to the whole thing.
04:50But are you stating the full story?
04:57Are you telling the whole thing?
05:01You know, there was a school of thought that said that limited consumption of alcohol helps
05:11the body in terms of health, yes.
05:14So that used to be the general wisdom and also something that medical science kept on broadly
05:24accepting for many decades.
05:27In fact, we had cases where people who crossed the age of 100, the centagenarians, when they
05:40were asked, how did you live so long?
05:43They would say, one small peg every evening.
05:46That has contributed to my very long life.
05:49All that imagery was there.
05:51But over the last ten-twenty years, more and more research is proving that alcohol has
06:03no positive health effects.
06:05In fact, even a little alcohol is actually detrimental to health.
06:13Even that is gone now.
06:16And when you look at the number of crimes that are committed under influence of alcohol,
06:29was that mentioned in their presentation?
06:31No, definitely not.
06:32No, definitely not.
06:33The crimes and all, nothing is.
06:36And when you count the number of road accidents that happen under influence, you count the...
06:46So, complete story is different, right?
06:53Sir, I want to ask, why are the students at such an institution, a very important institution,
07:07are not questioning, questioning the work they are choosing?
07:11You question only when you need an answer.
07:13No answer is needed.
07:14You already have all the answers.
07:17The answer is that I need to have a fat pay package, a sexy girl, two cute kids.
07:27Firstly, some house in India and if possible, settle abroad.
07:35The answers have been supplied to you long back.
07:40You don't need any answers.
07:42And therefore, you don't have any questions.
07:48Everybody has well settled answers.
07:54Show me a question that is still alive.
07:59There is no question, the answers are all there.
08:06Frozen, sealed, packed, done and dusted, permanently settled.
08:22It is a very strange thing.
08:25But it does not matter whether you come from an IIT or an ITI or some other place.
08:31It doesn't matter.
08:33When it comes to inner life, we are all equally uneducated.
08:42There is great equality.
08:47We are all brothers and sisters.
08:50Because we are all equally ignorant.
08:53Ignorance is our father and our mother.
09:01No questions inside.
09:02Outer life might be different.
09:05Somebody is rich, somebody is poor.
09:07Their outer lives will be very different.
09:10Hindu, Muslim outer life will be different.
09:13Indian, American outer life will be different.
09:17PhD and illiterate, the outer life will be different.
09:26Man and woman, the outer life will be different.
09:29Inner life exactly the same.
09:32What is inside? Nothing.
09:37Just a massive darkness.
09:42A lifeless vastness.
09:48Unending.
09:50Nothing inside.
09:51Doesn't matter who you are.
09:53The richest person, the poorest person, the biggest scholar or totally illiterate.
09:59Inside you is a total absence of self-knowledge.
10:05Nobody has any questions.
10:07The rich one wants to marry, the poor one wants to marry.
10:10Do they not?
10:12The rich one is rich because he wants money.
10:15The poor is poor so he wants money.
10:18Where is the difference?
10:21Show me.
10:22We all have very definite, ready made answers.
10:29Nobody will ask an answer.
10:31And in fact, if somebody asks a question, that is probably to impress the interviewers.
10:39It is a very typical thing.
10:44You ask a smart question to the panel making the presentation or the interview panel.
10:54Wow!
10:55Smart chap, he asks great questions.
11:00But you will never ask a question that offends.
11:05Your questions will be like foot massage, not bullets.
11:16Asking you a question, what do you do?
11:18You bend and you start offering pedicure services.
11:22This is my question.
11:23What is the question?
11:24How does it feel, sir?
11:27This is the question.
11:30This is never the question.
11:33How does it feel, sir?
11:36I have been feeling it since 21 years.
11:40Because I have questions.
11:45Now I am shooting the same question at you.
11:47How does it feel, sir?
11:49Nobody will have that.
12:00Sir, before joining the IIT, I was very joyful.
12:06I thought that I will meet people who are very brave and will follow their path of passion and their interest.
12:17But here I am seeing that 99% of people are just chasing the highway of success.
12:24Nobody is going towards the naked sky of freedom.
12:27So, I am very shattered.
12:30My hopes were very shattered.
12:31You are not joyful.
12:32You are fanciful.
12:33I don't know how somebody can enter an IIT and think that he will meet bold and courageous people there.
12:48aiming for the naked sky of freedom.
12:51What kind of witless daydreaming is this?
12:58Yeah, I must.
13:01People spend 2 years, 4 years in places like Kota to demonstrate their boldness.
13:10And several lakh rupees to get into an IIT.
13:19It is because they want to pursue a path of courage.
13:25Isn't the preparatory phase itself a very clear augury?
13:32How can you be so deluded?
13:35You enter there through the admissions process so that you can exit through the placement process.
13:44Simple.
13:46There are only 2 things relevant at least in an Indian college campus.
13:52The admissions office and then the placements office.
13:56Everything in between is just time pass.
14:01Everything in between matters only to the extent it helps in your placement.
14:10You have the CGPA system there as well, right?
14:12Yes, yes.
14:13So, you have audit courses, right?
14:15Yes.
14:16Who wants to excel in an audit course, tell me.
14:21Even if you want good grades, even if you study hard in a particular course, it is to secure good grades.
14:30And good grades would decorate your CV.
14:37You will then serve it to the buyer and demand a higher wage for yourself.
14:50That's all.
14:55And that's not something that happens in an IIT.
14:58That is something that happens even before the IIT.
15:04That is something that is embedded in the preparation process itself.
15:10And why is it there in the preparation process?
15:12Because it is there in the family.
15:16And why is it there in the family?
15:17Because it is there in the culture and in the air.
15:20Who values knowledge?
15:22We value money.
15:23You don't go to an IIT for knowledge.
15:25Nobody does.
15:29You go there for name, fame, green card, money, bride.
15:39These are the things.
15:48You can sell footwear.
15:49You can sell.
15:50Imagine.
15:51A computer science graduate.
15:54What is it doing?
15:55What is it doing?
15:56Selling shoes.
15:57Selling this coke.
15:58That Fanta.
15:59That liquor.
16:00And being paid through his nose.
16:01So much.
16:02Sir, I had an image before that IITs are institutions where innovation is promoted.
16:06And.
16:07But I didn't found anything here.
16:08But I didn't find anything here.
16:16Sir, I had an image before that IITs are institutions where innovation is promoted and but I didn't
16:34found anything here.
16:37It is also an image that is in the society that also inspires people like me who didn't
16:44came here for placements and all.
16:46IITs are not dropping from the heavens, they are springing from this soil.
16:54Does this soil care for innovations?
16:58India is one of the least creative countries in the world.
17:03It broke my heart that day, you know, I have been a Shole fan and I have been watching videos
17:14that tear Shole apart, scene by scene, frame by frame and tell us which scene, which frame
17:21is copied from which western movie.
17:26Exact, in some of the most famous scenes of Shole, they are true copies of westerns.
17:40That's not an original.
17:49Nothing is an original.
17:58Not Thakur, not Jay, not Viru, not Basanti, not Gabbar, not even Sambha.
18:05Do we care for innovations?
18:12We don't even copy well.
18:18So nobody bothered to even serve a copyright notice.
18:24It's such a poor copy.
18:27Why bother?
18:28Creativity does not come with fear.
18:38We are a very afraid people.
18:42You know what we are afraid of?
18:43The unseen, the unknowable.
18:47Nobody lives here in the reality of the fact.
18:52We live in constant desire and constant fear of something unknown.
19:05The future, the afterlife, the heaven, the hell, the ghost, the God.
19:17Fluff is what our life is all about and then we say we are emotional people, we live in dreams.
19:30We are not materialistic, we live in intangibles, intangibles, intangibles like ghosts.
19:47To innovate, first of all, you have to give respect to this world, right?
19:53This world.
19:55We have been taught that this world means nothing.
19:59Jagat Mithya.
20:04And that does not mean that we have actually grown in detachment from this world.
20:11That simply means that we have become hypocrites, Pakhandis.
20:17We drool after this world but pretend as if we have nothing to do with the world.
20:29You innovate when you want to improve something here, right now.
20:42Why will you innovate if your real abode is somewhere else?
20:49Do you innovate in a hotel?
20:51No.
20:52No.
20:53Because you are soon to check out.
20:55You have been told that life on this planet is like checking in and checking out of a hotel.
21:02Who innovates in a hotel?
21:07Who wants to improve life in a guest house?
21:14You have been told that your real life and your real home is elsewhere.
21:21That's why instead of being creative, we have become Jugaadu.
21:26In a hotel, the maximum you do is Jugaad.
21:30Right?
21:32The fan is not working.
21:33What do you do?
21:35Somehow you just try to put the thing together for the night.
21:47That's Jugaad.
21:48You don't want to come to a lasting solution.
21:52You don't want to go to the roots of the problem.
21:55Because you have to check out tomorrow.
21:58And then you will reach your real home.
22:00Where is your real home?
22:02Or some other uni?
22:08You very well know, you have been convinced by some priest that you will become a dog in your next birth.
22:25So, starting from this one, you have started befriending dogs.
22:31So that when you arrive in their middle, they don't bully you.
22:40Don't take care of what matters.
22:56Take care of all intangibles and approves things.
23:03That's what matters.
23:05At the same time, keep salivating after unearned goodies.
23:12Not that all this has led to any kind of sublimation of desire.
23:22The desire holds.
23:23The desire stands.
23:24As aggressive as it is.
23:29As naked as it is.
23:31Just that you don't even want to work for fulfilling the desire.
23:37You want to then fulfill the desire using all kinds of nefarious means.
23:43Why create?
23:44Just jugal?
23:45Why earn?
23:46Just steal?
23:47Why earn?
23:48Just steal?
23:49You come from an institute of technology.
24:04India, it is being said, has already lost the AI game.
24:16Pocket the US, we are behind even China by 6 years.
24:29In terms of technology, what do we have?
24:32App.
24:33That's technology.
24:35For us, this is technology.
24:38You want Matrapaneer at 2 AM?
24:45Technology comes to your rescue.
24:47That's our technology.
24:49And then we say, you see, unicorn.
24:59Look at the tremendous valuation.
25:19Cute apps.
25:20You know?
25:21That's what Indian technology is about.
25:26You see, this is technology.
25:28Fear.
25:29Lot of fear.
25:34Somebody is watching.
25:49Somebody is above me.
25:50Let me remain subjugated and afraid.
25:53Let me do small things.
25:55Can I make a teeny weeny app for you?
26:00This will bring you fresh milk every morning.
26:05Boot polish app.
26:10Meditation app.
26:12You choose an option and it will give you some music.
26:16Second option, some Babaji start speaking.
26:20Third option, the sound of a waterfall.
26:23Fourth option, the sounds of birds chirping.
26:27This is technology.
26:31And you will match the world in AI.
26:44Not that we are genetically inferior or something.
26:48Not at all.
26:49The same Indians, when they venture out and get a conducive environment,
26:54they do not just as well as but actually better than people of other nationalities.
27:05It's just that the environment here, the very culture is suffocating.
27:10You are made to feel small and little.
27:18How dare you venture out?
27:20How dare you think big?
27:25Just bow your head down.
27:28Just keep surrendering.
27:29Your task is to be devoted.
27:38Devoted to whom?
27:39Whosoever is in power.
27:41Just be devoted.
27:43Keep lying low.
27:44That's not how greatness comes.
27:57You cannot have greatness in an environment where you can't ask questions.
28:02Where you are stuffed with beliefs ever since you attained two years of age.
28:15I suppose even in IITs they are trying to teach Indian belief system now?
28:26Sir, in this semester I have a course of Neeti Shastra.
28:31In which they teach all the Neetis.
28:35Chanakki Neeti and Sukraneti and all kind of stuff.
28:40And all these propagandic things.
28:42And one of the thing is that the teacher said that the rebirth is true.
28:47There are evidences of rebirth.
28:52I question them.
28:54No.
28:56If you are being exposed to Earth Shastra from Kotelli, that is one thing.
29:00Fine.
29:02That is one thing.
29:04But in the same vein, if you are being fed with concepts of rebirth and all these things,
29:09then that's a totally different thing.
29:11Yes.
29:13That is something that will enfeeble you.
29:17Greatness does not ride on beliefs.
29:33Greatness comes by dismissing beliefs.
29:38And if you can't outrightly dismiss them, at least question them.
29:41Thank you Acharya Ji.
29:42You have been a guiding light to me since three years.
29:43I am very grateful to you.
29:44You are my hero.
29:45And I am just following you.
29:46I am learning from you.
29:47Thank you sir.
29:48Thank you so much.
29:49You win my life.
29:58You win my life.