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आचार्य प्रशांत
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5 years ago
Consumption
Animalistic Life
Purpose of Life
Salaried Class
Value System
Deception
Disdain
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses salaried professionals, questioning what they are doing with their lives. He asserts that they are worse than animals because animals are simply doing what nature created them to do, which is to eat. He asks what these professionals are doing. He states they are so fallen that they are animals but do not even realize it, considering themselves to be something else. For instance, when they say, "We work in finance," he retorts, "Alright, you are an animal that works in finance." Similarly, for those in the IT industry, he says many animals like cows, buffaloes, goats, and pigs are roaming inside IT companies, and they are there for one reason: to eat. He questions if they have any higher purpose for living beyond their stomach, which he equates to consumption. He asks if their life has any goal, theme, or melody other than consumption. He points out that even their dreams are centered on consumption, with the thought, "Tomorrow, I will consume more." He dismisses this mindset, calling it akin to an ox. He identifies the problem as a corrupted system of evaluation, where the internal mechanism for assigning value is flawed. This is why people get swayed and start respecting things like job titles. When someone says, "I am a strategy consultant," people don't immediately dismiss them as an animal. Acharya Prashant advises that instead of asking about someone's job, one should ask what they are living for. Even if someone has a prestigious job, if they are doing it just for their stomach, they should be dismissed with disdain and contempt. He explains that people get suppressed because they desire the same things others have—the car, the bungalow, the wife. They are impressed by these things because they want them too. He concludes by stating that everything they desire is what animals also have; a langur has a female langur, a monkey has a female monkey, and they often have many. People are impressed by things that belong to the jungle. What a human being should possess, these people lack, and because one is impressed by them, one also lacks what is truly human.