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मरोगे बाद में, पहले पागल होओगे || आचार्य प्रशांत (2024)
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Climate Change
Mass Insanity
Consumerism
Carbon Emissions
Spiritual Solution
Celebrity Culture
Bhagavad Gita
Shri Krishna
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Acharya Prashant explains that the current climate crisis is leading humanity towards an era of mass insanity. He predicts that before we die from the heat, we will die from our own madness, with people becoming deranged, tearing their clothes, and killing each other. This is because the human body and brain are not evolved to withstand such high temperatures, which have been breaking records for the past eleven consecutive months. This heat affects our psychological processes, leading to irrational behavior, which is also observable in animals like dogs, whose bite incidents have increased, and other animals whose entire behaviors are changing. The speaker argues that the blame for this crisis is being misplaced on the common person, who is told to do small things like recycle or use fewer light bulbs. This is a distraction from the real culprits: a minuscule fraction of the world's population, just 0.01%, who are responsible for destroying the planet. He points out the hypocrisy of those who manufacture products like electric vehicles, as they themselves are the biggest emitters. The entire lifecycle of an electric vehicle, from the mining of lithium (which requires millions of liters of water per ton) to its disposal, emits as much carbon as a fossil fuel vehicle. Acharya Prashant asserts that this is fundamentally a spiritual problem. The root cause is that humanity worships the wrong ideals. We have placed celebrities, industrialists, and politicians on a pedestal, and they promote a lifestyle of unlimited consumption as the purpose of life. The common person's fault lies in following these destructive ideals. The solution, he suggests, is also spiritual: to change our ideals and worship those who represent simple living and higher consciousness, as taught in scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita. He warns that all our great civilizations, including the Indus Valley and Chola empires, collapsed due to climate change, and we are heading towards a similar, if not worse, fate. He concludes by stating that the impending catastrophe is not just about rising sea levels or economic collapse, but about a total annihilation preceded by mass insanity. The extinction will begin from the bottom of the economic pyramid, with the poorest suffering first, but will eventually consume everyone, including the mega-rich. The punishment for our collective actions is that before our extinction, we will witness our own derangement. The entire crisis stems from a spiritual void, where we have failed to enthrone the right values and consciousness.