When it comes to social media, hardly anybody is in charge. Now the mischief maker is faceless, anonymous, because there are just so many of them that you cannot call out or point out one single face. You cannot regulate so many people, and you cannot have laws that punish people for their intentions. The only solution then is individual responsibility. Vedanta has to become a part of mainstream education. There is nothing more important today than awakening the individual.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji, first of all, massive respect to you. I was mainly touched by your work through the Earth Festival, and the things that you talked about regarding karma were very interesting to me. I hope you will revisit them today, which I am looking forward to.
I am a PhD student in my fourth year in the design department, and I am mainly working with educational games and how we can use games to harness some sort of education. I have seen a lot of little children learning vocabulary through playing games like PUBG and other things. So, I thought, why not try to intentionally harness that? That is what I do.
My question to you is: I was reading somewhere that Chanakya in Arthashastra (and I might be mistaken, so sorry about the specifications, apologies for that) pointed out the fact that a king, if he needs to be successful and wants to rule his kingdom not just with dictatorial absolute power but successfully, he or she needs to pay attention to and extract the power of alcohol. He did not pass judgment on whether alcohol is good or bad, but he did understand that a tool which is powerful has to be understood by the person who is leading the kingdom.
