The difference between your intellectual position and your evolutionary position is increasing day by day. So, technology is giving you great stuff, but you are responding to it in a chimpanzee way. So, here you have these cameras, wonderful things, but what do you do with this? What do you do with this technology? You do all the monkey stuff with this technology. Read more.....
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Acharya Prashant: Most of that which human beings do today is still driven by man’s evolutionary instincts. Sex, greed, fear, attachment – all of these are evolutionary traits.
If you can see how you and the monkey are exactly the same as far as sex, fear, lust and attachment are concerned, you’ll probably not want to show down the monkey. The monkey is at least right in its place. Monkeys need all those things to survive. The monkey needs attachment, the monkey needs fear; and therefore all that is right if the monkey exhibits it. But, you do not need all those things and you’re still carrying them, so you are the real monkey.
The monkey needs to be afraid of the night, so if the monkey is afraid of the night, it is good for him. Man does not need to be afraid of the night, but man is still afraid of the night because the monkey within the man exists and is too slow to go away. You know how slow he is? Evolution causes changes at a very feeble pace, it takes millions of years. Are you prepared to wait millions of years? And millions of years will be needed only if your progress is stopped in its tracks where it is today.
