I am hungry, I am dissatisfied, I want to consume. And I do not know what it is that would appease me, make me happy, quench my thirst, so I will try out everything. If you have this big a hole in your heart, what else will you do? You will use the entire universe to plug this hole. That is what man has been doing. He wants to eat up everything. The very basis of climate change is the constitution of man himself. Man cannot help climate change; man is climate change.
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Acharya Prashant: I am hungry, I am dissatisfied, I want to consume. And I do not know what it is that would appease me, make me happy, quench my thirst, so I will try out everything. Any guess is as good as any other guess; I cannot just spare anything. It’s a matter of deep inner unrest. I have to try out all possible ways.
So, man tries out all possible ways. Who is this man? This is the man who is coming from a mode of thinking that lays no emphasis on understanding oneself; it is much more concerned about the outer world. And, of course, when it is concerned about the outer world, there would be great progress in science and technology, in everything that can be seen outside.
So, this man is coming from that domain of thought. He will not look at the thing called the ego; he will not look at the self. It’s not very interesting, and it’s tedious. Why look at the self? Also, it is humiliating at times, especially if you are a philosopher, it is great to philosophize about this and that, but if you start philosophizing about yourself, it doesn’t turn out too good.
