Today, if you see AQI levels beyond tolerance, glaciers melting and the coral reefs being destroyed, the reason is very simple. We do not know what is the right relationship to have with the world around us. So, all we do is consumption and destruction. There can be therefore no scientific and technological solution to this problem. The solution is self awareness.
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Questioner: Pranam, Acharya ji. Sir, I have question, as we are getting advanced in material progress and technology, still at the same time we see there is a rapid increase in suicide cases, depression, mental health issues, climate change and I think this is due to our action coming from natural tendencies such as greed, consumption, fear. So, sir my question is, how can we minimize these tendencies in order to create a better living for ourselves?
Acharya Prashant: You don’t have to criticize or minimize these tendencies per say, you have to understand these tendencies. Fear says, “Something will be taken away from you.” What is fear fearful of? Greed says, “Come on go get that thing.” What is it that greed actually desires? Because if fear were only with respect to one object, then fear would have been eliminated with the elimination of that particular object, but that never happens, right? Let’s say you are afraid of the cat and somebody shoos away the cat. The cat is no more there, the cat has gone. Has the fear gone? The fear is still there. After the cat you will be afraid of the monkey, then of something else then then then. Fear continues.
Let’s say greed were with respect to only one object. You get that object, has greed disappeared? No. The greed is still there, so what greed wanted has not been obtained with that object. Greed definitely wants something else. Fear definitely is apprehensive of something else.
