The very nature of research is that there is uncertainty. It’s a dive into the unknown. We fear the unknown so much that we want to stick to known lanes throughout; that’s what explains the lack of a research culture. There are just so many masters all around and over you. Don’t listen to them. All those who stop you from flying high, they are being irresponsible, because they in no way can compensate for the opportunity you lose.
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Questioner: Good afternoon, sir. I'm Rashmik from the Mechanical Department. I have been seeing your videos for the last two years. The first thing I would like to say is: you changed my view on Gandhi. I had a friend group who would be telling different things about Gandhi, and I stumbled upon your video once. I have gone through your videos, and I had a very different view of Gandhi before that point, it completely changed since then.
So my question today is: we, as youth, the number of patents or the number of research papers which our country publishes; because research is a very crucial important thing for the future. So, I feel the number of patents being published are quite less in our country. What is something that is missing in the student community, which is very much important to keep our national interest first? That’s my question, sir.
Acharya Prashant: Publishing is an act, somebody has to do it, right? And something gets done only when the doer has an interest in doing it. There has to be an intent, and then one finds a way. Now look at the way a kid is brought up in our society; are we risk-taking people? Are we willing to dare uncertainty and challenges across all strata of society? What we want is certainty. We are very all right with settling in some lower orbit of life, provided we feel safe there, safe, secured; life must be comfortable and, more importantly, predictable. And then it’s fine with us.
