Full video: Should one follow her passion, or do what looks practical? ||Acharya Prashant,at Christ Univ. (2022)
Link: https://youtu.be/UjEp_UrfE9U
Video Information: 14.09.2022, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru
Context:
~ What makes one passionate?
~ How to know where my passion lies?
~ How does one control us?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Link: https://youtu.be/UjEp_UrfE9U
Video Information: 14.09.2022, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru
Context:
~ What makes one passionate?
~ How to know where my passion lies?
~ How does one control us?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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LearningTranscript
00:00How is Krishn's weakness?
00:08Several times in each chapter, we see how helpless Krishn is.
00:15We find weakness lording over strength exactly because it is weak.
00:22Trimad Bhagavad Gita is an epic struggle and Krishn is the struggler.
00:31It all tugs at your heartstrings.
00:35It's actually a song as much of melancholy as of wisdom.
00:42That's the reason I love the Gita.
00:45It becomes very difficult for us to decide on what we want to go on with,
00:56with a lot of other things on our plate.
00:58So, there's this inner voice that tells us to go for what we are passionate about,
01:03but on the same side, our brain tells us to think logical, think practical.
01:09So, in this situation, what are we supposed to do?
01:12Like, who are we supposed to listen to?
01:14Is it the intuition that is within us or the brain that is trying to convey something to us?
01:23You have to, first of all, consider the reality of what you are passionate about.
01:38The questioner is saying that in moments of decision making, do we go with our passion or with our logic and rationality, as the mind suggests it to us?
01:53So, I begin with passion.
02:00First of all, inquire into it and that should be the first thing because one is obviously biased towards her passion.
02:12Even if the mind is suggesting other things, we all feel like following the course of our passion.
02:21Since passion appeals so much to us and we feel like leaning towards it very automatically, why not figure out the truth of the passion?
02:39What makes you passionate about something?
02:46From where did one pick up her passion?
02:51Was one always passionate about such a thing?
02:56Because, you see, there are certain decisions that require a lot of investment.
03:06Sometimes, when you decide to follow the direction of your passion, it may consume a lot of your time, your energy and also the decision might be not easily reversible.
03:23So, before you commit yourself to any such thing, especially the thing you feel strongly passionate about, it is important to inquire a little.
03:39Is my passion arising from something that I deeply realize or is it arising from something I am influenced by?
04:00Because, once something takes the name of your passion, we usually just ignore asking what its real source is.
04:19I am imploring you to ask, is this passion really my passion or have I borrowed it from somewhere?
04:30In India, for example, a lot of people would be passionate about the sport of cricket.
04:41A lot of people are passionate about movies.
04:45Would you be passionate about the same sport?
04:50Were you born in Brazil or Russia?
04:56Or even in China or in the US?
05:01So, is this passion then really yours?
05:04Till your class 12th, you lived at a certain place and there was a certain environment.
05:15And then let's say you come over to Bangaluru.
05:20And here the environment is totally different and it captivates you.
05:27There is a lot of glamour, glids, attraction.
05:32It starts possessing you.
05:34And certain elements of your environment you start feeling very strongly about.
05:44And you start saying, this is what I really want.
05:47Now, is that what you really want or is that what you have been made to really want?
05:55Is that me or the forces acting upon me?
06:02It's a very crucial question, especially in the life of young people.
06:09It must be that way.
06:11Unfortunately, often it is not.
06:14We do not give it the importance it deserves, this question.
06:19These feelings, these passions, where have I gathered them from?
06:25We believe and it's just a hollow belief that whatever we feel is something internal to us.
06:36That all feelings arise from an internal point and we want to call that point as the heart or something.
06:43No.
06:45Most of that which we feel and most of our thoughts, they are deeply influenced things.
06:55It's like somebody is controlling us via a remote control from the outside.
07:04And we are dancing to an external tune, singing somebody else's song.
07:12We also feel that the song and dance is our own.
07:27It is not.
07:29And because it is not your own, very soon you will be disillusioned.
07:37Very soon you will find no sense in that music, in that dance, in that passion, in that feeling, in that attraction.
07:49All that will lose meaning.
07:52And then what will happen?
07:54Because we are disappointed with one external influence, we simply become open and available to another external influence.
08:06And then something else comes and possesses us.
08:10And for a while, it gives us hope.
08:13We start calling the new feeling, the new passion, the new whatever as our own.
08:21So passion is a wonderful thing.
08:26I really want more people have the courage to follow their passion.
08:33But as I say that, I also realize that in the name of passion, all kinds of conditionings and influences and therefore bondages operate.
08:44Conditioned passion is deeply dangerous.
08:48There would be nobody right now in this auditorium who would not be passionate about a thing or two.
08:55All of us have our own pet passions.
09:00The problem is they are neither our own nor are they our pets.
09:05You call something your pet only when you control it, right?
09:10A pet dog.
09:13Our passions are not controlled by us.
09:16Instead they control us.
09:17How are they our pet passions?
09:19And they are not ours.
09:22It's like we have been hypnotized and something totally external.
09:27Something totally unrelated to our own reality has entered us, captivated and possessed us.
09:40And so deeply that we do not remember or realize that there was a point when this meant nothing to me.
09:49And there will be a point when I will be disillusioned from this same very thing.
09:55But at this moment I am captured, I am hypnotized.
10:01I am so captured I have started calling this as my passion.
10:05No, that is not your passion.
10:08You will drop it.
10:10And when that moment comes, there is a lot of pain.
10:14Not only is there a lot of pain, already a lot of wastage has happened.
10:19And that wastage cannot be recovered then.
10:23Therefore the advice is too prompt.
10:26Yes, go the way of your passion.
10:28Logic must be used to determine how to succeed in your passion.
10:36Logic does not come first.
10:38Obviously passion comes first.
10:40The use of intellect is to find the way to the destination you are passionate about.
10:47The destination has to be determined by passion.
10:50Logic has to be used to find the route to that destination.
10:54True.
10:55Fully agree.
10:57But there is a great danger when we say this.
11:01And I am repeating this.
11:02Because that which you call as your passion is mostly a false passion.
11:08We keep falling in love.
11:12We keep slipping this way, that way.
11:16And then when we stumble, fall, get hurt.
11:20We get up and say, I don't know what happened to me.
11:25Was I drunk or something?
11:29It's a nice realization.
11:30It's just that we don't stay with it.
11:33We realize that the last affair was a bad one.
11:37And then we walk into another one of the same kind.
11:42That is the truth of our passions.
11:47Ephemeral, shallow, influenced, hurtful, wasteful.
11:55So do follow your passion.
11:58Logic must ideally be subservient to passion.
12:02True.
12:03But check your passion ten times before you commit yourself to it.
12:10Which basically means you need to understand your own mind quite clearly.
12:19What do I fall prey to?
12:22What do I suddenly start feeling attracted to?
12:26Do I have an inner algorithm that the world can crack and therefore enslave me?
12:33A lot of us operate in internal patterns.
12:38And those internal patterns are not new.
12:41They are very predictable.
12:43And when they are predictable, the world can use those patterns to take control of you.
12:48How do you think the various advertisers operate?
12:52How do you think the entire game of media works?
12:56They know how to influence you.
12:59They very well know that we have an internal algorithm.
13:04And it's a very simple one.
13:06It can be hacked.
13:08And they hack it every day.
13:10And they make us feel very strongly attracted to things that are inherently useless for us.
13:17But we feel attracted.
13:19We feel attracted and then we commit our money, our time, sometimes our entire life to something that has no value actually.
13:28Right?
13:29So it is not just persons that deceive us.
13:32There are entire systems, huge institutions that are working just to split you open, then enter your mind and then control you from there.
13:46Which is all very unfortunate.
13:49Right?
13:50And remember, the ones who want to control are especially looking out for young people to control.
14:04Because these are the ones that have A, energy, B, a lot of exuberance, C, a life to live.
14:15Therefore, these would be the most useful slaves.
14:18They have another 60 years to live.
14:20If I can capture them, I have guaranteed myself 60 years of nice service.
14:32Additionally, he is going to earn now.
14:36And he is very vulnerable as well because this is a period of hormonal activity.
14:41Right?
14:43So, passion should have been a beautiful world.
14:48Unfortunately, it is one of the most dangerous words you should be very cautious of.
14:54Do follow your passion, but with utmost care.
14:59Following something random in the name of passion is obviously not wise.
15:04But there are millions of queens.
15:06Whip is looking at All.
15:09So,Why is he a person falando the livre?
15:10Do follow me brothers.
15:11So, how are you.
15:12Are you really watching those books?
15:13What are you watching?
15:14I am very excited and I am very excited!
15:17Find others!
15:19You can.
15:20They are very excited about everything too.