If you do not respect the highest, then you're not respecting yourself. You're just respecting some little and lowly part of yourself, which is not self-respect at all, then. When you have real self-respect, then you give yourself the highest. You won't give yourself some cheap thing. Pay the price for being with the right people, the right books, being at the right places. Love yourself enough to give yourself the highest. Don't settle for anything lower or lesser.
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Questioner: So Acharya Ji, I'm a PhD student here in the US and you have taken my questions before also. From inside we are sorrowful, and because of that sorrow we always try to seek experiences for happiness. The more sorrow we have inside, the more intensity we chase happiness. And the way we realize sadness is the state, not the center.
But while I was looking towards myself, I could see that throughout my life I have chased experiences so that the sadness can be overcome through these experiences towards my life. If I experience sadness, I pursue or go towards consumption of products which are not even needed, or events, or products to make me feel happy.
So the question which comes to my mind is: even if I'm listening to the Gita for some time or some wisdom literature from your end, why does this thing keep on returning again and again? Why, in the state of sadness, do I sometimes look outside to seek happiness in the outer world instead of realizing that joy is the main state, not the sadness? We have to go towards the state of joy and not emphasize sadness.
