You didn't emerge from the jungle so that you could collect external riches. You were doing all right even in the jungle. There was no need to leave the jungle and do something that was extraordinary and go out of your way to do something that no other species had done. There was no need. You were doing all right. But you emerged from the jungle so that you can have inner development.
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Questioner: Good evening, sir. Sir, I have a question. When we were just gatherers, wanderers, we were much happier until agriculture happened and settlements happened. Then culture began. But I was wondering, if bandhan begins from the settlements, then do you think we could have made progress in technology or everything that could happen to the human, whether it's healthcare or anything, or are you suggesting maybe the older way when settlements weren’t okay?
Acharya Prashant: It wasn't so much hunter-gatherer. It was much more about being gatherers. We were not really hunters. We were gatherers. Gathering is much easier than hunting, obviously.
So what happened next was inevitable. Please understand, if we were surviving as a species even by hunting and gathering and all those things, why did we need to move into agriculture in the first place? Why? That kind of a shift no other species has shown.
If monkeys stay on trees, they have continued to stay on trees. They haven't become agriculturalists because they are doing all right on trees. And the tigers are doing all right as they are. And the proof of their all-rightness, the greatest and the only proof that is needed, is that they are continuing to exist as a species. And that's what is needed in the biological world. The only success that is needed there is material, material success. Just as we measure our success often by the kind of impression we leave on the world, nations talk of their success by measuring the average longevity of their populations. No? “How long are we surviving? What kind of impact are we leaving?”
