Your entire identity comes from the world — society, religion, family, tradition. Had your identity been independent of the world, then you wouldn't have needed to get ahead or prove anything to the world. And when there is more internal hollowness and insecurity, there is more need to ostentate. The deeper the lovelessness, the more lavish the wedding is. So, the fundamental problem is the framework in which you cannot be successful without being ahead of the world. Real success is when you drop this framework.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. My name is Shubangi, and I am an IT consultant, and I have lived in Munich for the past 8 years, and part of the Gita community for more than a year now. And my question today is about Jeff Bezos' lavish wedding that happened a few weeks ago in Venice. Probably one of the most extravagant events recently, and the inequality where it was visible quite to extremes.
On the one hand, there was this extravaganza. On the other hand, there were many people from Venice, the locals, who were protesting for many, many issues they faced. For example, there's an explosion of tourism, the costs are rising, people are struggling to make their ends meet, and so on.
So my questions are: with all this inequality, rather rising inequality. Are we heading towards another French Revolution? And how bad does it get before it gets any better?
And the last one is: are there any immediate corrective measures that can be taken to address this?
