Questioner:* I am Darshan, and my question is very simple yet complicated. So why do we not work? So even after knowing that if we work, we will get something that we are looking for. So, to take an example, I had the opportunity to interact with a lot of social startups. So many of them are working towards climate change. So, a few startups might be working towards climate change, even if we see it at individual levels.
We know that if we do not use plastic, segregate garbage waste, do not use AC, or maybe some other alternative for that matter, we could actually bring about a lot of change. We are eight billion people, and if everyone, maybe even half the world, is working towards it, there could be a drastic change in the climate, though we're not actually working on it. So, what could be the reason for that?
Acharya Prashant: See, when you say, ‘We do not work.’ it's not that we really do not work. Every single person is indeed working but just according to his or her own limited perception and self-interest.
There is nobody who does not work. Even if somebody decides not to work, that's that person's definition of work. For example, when you ask someone, ‘Hey, what did you do all day?’ And the fellow says, ‘Oh, I just slept’ or ‘I was just lying on the bed.’
Isn't that in response to what did you do all day? So that's what he was doing, lying on the bed. So that's his doing; he is working. The trouble is, according to his perception from where he is looking and with the limited clarity that he is looking, that was the only suitable work he could take up: lying on the bed, dozing, sleeping.
