We all have been trained to buy respect and barter it for life itself — through riches, status, etc. This means that you're a big man only as long as the small ones approve of you. But what is the point of being big, rich, and powerful, if it is still the small ones that call the shots for you? And this is not exclusive to the successful ones. Every single person who does not know the foundations of living will live in a secondhanded way — secondhanded love, success, and respect. And this will not allow you any kind of peace.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. I'm Aditya from Kolkata. My question is regarding a recent incident which got really viral on social media. A CEO of a very famous company was caught in a moment of intimacy with his HR head and it went viral. Lots of memes were made about it, and after that, the CEO applied for resignation from the post. I found out that he is also going to get divorced.
So my question is, the people who are so successful, well-recognized, admired, they often do such reckless things for something like a moment of pleasure or for some novelty. What is it inside that makes them do such things? Because they have everything. We also know that at one point of time, Bezos was the richest man on the planet, and his chats were also leaked, and that got him into his divorce.
So what is it inside us that we do such reckless things, even when we have everything?
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