For you to make your parents happy, the first requirement is that you must be happy. If you are not happy, how can you give happiness to your parents? There is a basic law of existence: you can only give what you have. How can you suffer and still make others happy? Please, get rid of the notion that you can compromise your life to make others happy.
The United States has contributed approximately 25% of cumulative global greenhouse gas emissions since 1850, despite comprising only about 4% of the world's population. This exemplifies climate injustice, where wealthier nations emit the majority of carbon emissions, while poorer countries endure the most severe impacts.
AI has no consciousness; it can only do what it is programmed to do. These are just programmed reactions. If you are in a job that involves this kind of programmable role, your job would be threatened by AI. Human beings, by definition, must be in actions that involve creativity. Machines can never understand. Why were you not into jobs that involved understanding or creativity?
राम कोई खिलौना थोड़ी ही हैं, जो कहीं से "मिल जाएँगे"। राम की प्राप्ति जैसा कुछ नहीं होता, अहंकार को मिटाना होता है, और इसी को ‘रामत्व’ कहते हैं। अपनी रोज़मर्रा की हरकतों को देखिए—सुबह से शाम तक क्या किया, क्या सोचा, क्या अनुभव किया; तो पता चलेगा कि बड़ा अंधकार है। और वह स्वयं को जानने से ही मिटेगा। उसके बाद जो शेष बचेगा, उसी को 'राम' बोलते हैं।
It is very well known that one tree, over the course of forty years, would absorb just one ton of carbon dioxide. In one year, it absorbs 0.025 tons. Whereas, having one less child causes a difference of sixty tons per year. Now, do you want to happily plant trees and then go home and have a child? Misplaced climate activism is not solving the problem; it is a part of the problem.
Dr. Ambedkar, one of the greatest minds of modern India, had problems with Hindu culture, but not with Vedanta. Our culture is based on the very periphery of religion and does not resonate with Vedanta. That’s the reason it is in conflict with the Constitution. The Constitution and true religiosity—which you can call self-knowledge or Vedanta—go together.
Afterlife is not even philosophy; it’s simply theology, present in every major religion. Science today confirms that there is nothing that survives the body. So, for whom are heaven and hell? It only takes one away from the direct realities of life because one is constantly dreaming of the afterlife. It is just an extremely venomous belief system.
There is a deep fear that keeps us terrified—the fear that things can go wrong at any time. And there is an inner laziness that makes us unwilling to figure out our own direction. So, we choose morality that comes with a ready-made action plan. 99% of what goes around in the name of religion or spirituality is just stale morality.
The distinction between spiritual life and worldly life is a false distinction. Spirituality is not morality or a set of commandments. It is never instructive. You do not need great formulations or special practices. Spirituality is basic honesty. Just see and acknowledge what is going on, and then the right action follows. Nothing else is needed.
Shri Ram is the source of all excellence—Kabir Sahab’s excellence, the excellence of an astronaut, the excellence of a deep-sea diver, the excellence of a professional, etc. If you don’t have excellence in what you do, it is because you have been disloyal to Ram. Without Ram, you can’t do anything nicely.
लव एट फर्स्ट साइट सबसे सशक्त प्रमाण होता है कि तुम गिरने जा रहे हो। इसीलिए उसके बाद होता है फॉलिंग इन लव। वास्तविक प्रेम होने में बहुत समय लगता है। सही व्यक्ति जब ज़िंदगी में आता है, तो कुछ भीतर चिढ़ेगा, और कुछ भीतर धीरे-धीरे प्रेम में पड़ता जाएगा। तुम अपने आप को बेहतर बनाने की कोशिश करते रहो। एक दिन पाओगे, सही दिशा में चलता हुआ कोई हमसफ़र मिल गया है।
The amount of money that goes into all this is tremendous, and apart from the money, what you’re losing is the golden years of your energy. You enter that place when you’re twenty-three or twenty-four, probably that’s a time when you can try, work, experiment, fail, retry, learn, so much is possible, and all that is just fritted away.
The way Prakriti has made the two genders, and the way we are conditioned by society, girls have turned out to be more emotional and more reactive. And that’s a serious handicap they face in life. Many women take their emotionality as their strength, whereas it is not. It is something very untamed that arises from the body. One ought to understand it and stay at a safe distance from it.
इंसान के भीतर जो यह भाव है कि मैं एक इंसान हूँ जो पैदा हुआ है भोगने के लिए, जो दुनिया से अलग अपने हित साध सकता है, दूसरों को बर्बाद कर के खुशी पा सकता है, जब तक इंसान के भीतर ये चीज रहेगी तब तक इसका मुकाबला करना बहुत मुश्किल है
The world’s problems are solved by those who don’t contribute to them. Leave the world to its fate—just five years, and everything will be alright. The jungles, the rivers, all have the intelligence to care for themselves. You start distorting things the moment you take the world as important, real, and significant. Just stop interfering.
