Video Information: 29.09.23, IIT-Madras (Online), Greater Noida
Context:
~ Why students are doing suicide ?
~ What harm are causing of unrealistic goal's to students ?
~ Who are culprit for this suicides ?
~ What is real success ?
~ Why parents need to be qualify to raise the kinds ?
~ Why inner education is important for kids ?
~ What are the most fundamental need of mind ?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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#acharyaprashant
Context:
~ Why students are doing suicide ?
~ What harm are causing of unrealistic goal's to students ?
~ Who are culprit for this suicides ?
~ What is real success ?
~ Why parents need to be qualify to raise the kinds ?
~ Why inner education is important for kids ?
~ What are the most fundamental need of mind ?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
#acharyaprashant
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00:00 The outcome of the conversation would decide actively the fate of many million residents
00:21 of the kingdom.
00:22 Not just figuratively, literally life and death depend on this discourse.
00:27 Therefore this discourse has so much potency.
00:29 Arjun is the real life student, not the ideal disciple.
00:35 Therefore Krishna's persuasion has the cutting edge mastery.
00:40 That's what happened with Arjun as well.
00:43 So the Bhagavad Gita is such a real and captivating story.
00:48 Hello Acharya ji.
00:50 I wanted to ask about the recent suicides, multiple suicides which happened in top institutes
00:58 of the country which included our institute as well.
01:01 So I wanted to know what is the reason behind these suicides which are occurring in the
01:05 country and is it due to societal pressure or academic pressure?
01:11 You see, a kid is a very dependent being.
01:19 Very dependent so the kid is heavily exploited.
01:26 You tell the kid that your life is worthless if you do not attain such and such goals.
01:37 And then you keep the goals so unrealistic and make the competition so severe by telling
01:49 the same thing to every kid that practically only 1% can attain the goals they have been
02:00 conditioned to attain.
02:02 What will happen to the remaining 99%?
02:10 One of the most fundamental needs of the mind is to know itself.
02:16 Who am I and why do I exist?
02:20 Parents and educators never bother to address this question let alone answer it satisfactorily.
02:31 Instead they indirectly, unconsciously supply you with a ready made and junk answer.
02:39 They say you exist to achieve.
02:41 Achieve what?
02:42 Stuff that we tell you to achieve.
02:46 Who told you that working for some MNC and earning fat dollars is the purpose of life?
02:55 Left to yourself would you have ever come to this conclusion?
02:57 Please tell me, any of you.
03:01 In fact, left to yourself most of you would have never bothered to appear for the JEE.
03:10 But you have been told that such and such things are non-negotiable.
03:13 You need to have these and everybody is telling you the same thing.
03:21 And even that would have been alright.
03:24 Had you been helped to awaken your own capacity to inquire and know.
03:35 If that capacity is awakened, then it does not matter what the entire world is telling
03:41 you.
03:45 Then you can keep everybody's opinion aside and say I know on my own.
03:50 I do not need to believe because I know.
03:57 But the constant bombardment of propaganda is accompanied by an equivalent dehumanization
04:09 of consciousness.
04:13 Your consciousness is turned mechanical and animal.
04:17 Dehumanized.
04:19 So these two things happen in tandem.
04:21 One you are told what things are all about.
04:25 Secondly, you are actively discouraged from knowing on your own.
04:32 If you know on your own, then you become some kind of a renegade.
04:39 Unacceptable.
04:40 An uncontrollable rebel or something who needs to be straightened.
04:50 So now the fellow comes and he has been given impossible targets to achieve.
05:01 And he has been told if he does not achieve those targets, then life is meaningless.
05:09 Some of them buckle.
05:12 Very sadly.
05:15 All links in any chain do not carry the same strength.
05:19 There are weak links.
05:22 If you put undue pressure on the ends of the chain, some link will break.
05:29 The fault does not belong to the link.
05:32 You must question those who put the pressure.
05:45 Great talent, great talent and what is that talent being told to do?
05:49 That talent is being told, you know, you go somewhere and write code, random code.
05:58 And if that random code is for one of the top companies, then you are successful.
06:05 What success is there in this?
06:09 Somebody is being told you go and work in a bank and you just do data all your day.
06:15 What success is there in this?
06:17 Had you not been being paid those big dollars, would you ever choose this kind of work?
06:23 Please tell me.
06:28 What success is there in all this?
06:32 Somebody is selling shoes after doing computer science B.Tech from IIT Madras.
06:37 What success is there in this?
06:40 It says that the company is a footwear giant, MNC footwear giant and then you take pride.
06:54 You don't take pride.
06:55 Your parents take pride.
06:58 Your parents take pride and the entire society takes pride.
07:02 And then a few girls can come to you or their parents rather.
07:12 The fellow is earning so, you know, how about a match?
07:19 From all the directions, the message that is coming to you is there is this particular
07:24 definition of success and if you cannot measure up to it, then life is not worth living.
07:37 Some of our friends unfortunately take it very literally.
07:42 They say if life is not worth living, why should we anyway continue living at all?
07:47 You could say they are more logical than the rest of us.
07:54 Equality has to be fixed.
08:00 Everybody who has been continuously teaching you that life exists just for the sake of
08:05 material gratification is the culprit.
08:09 Catch him.
08:12 Justice needs to be done.
08:14 Otherwise this kind of trend will continue.
08:16 It's not just about your campus, it's happening everywhere.
08:24 Pressure by itself might not be necessarily a bad thing, but pressure for such nonsense?
08:33 One fellow gave up his life because his elder brother was a super achiever.
08:39 The elder brother was actually from an IIT.
08:40 This fellow did not manage into an IIT.
08:43 He was at some other place and there too he was not getting the desired kind of job offers.
08:51 He quit.
08:54 On one hand I commiserate with the parents, on the other hand one needs to have a straight
09:03 word with them.
09:06 What exactly are you feeding your kids on?
09:11 Do most parents even deserve to be called parents?
09:16 For any small project you require at least some qualification.
09:22 But for the project of raising a kid, you require zero qualification.
09:28 All you need is one night of physical encounter and then you say I am a father and she is
09:37 a mother and the two of us are qualified to raise the kid.
09:40 How exactly are you qualified to raise the kid?
09:49 This is nothing but symptomatic of a society where inner education is considered dispensable.
09:57 Where we say that if you teach the student in history, geography, maths, science and
10:06 the languages that is sufficient.
10:09 The student does not need to be given education in life, education of the self.
10:15 That is not necessary.
10:16 If that is not necessary, this will be the outcome and sadly this outcome might keep
10:23 getting repeated.
10:28 And that inner education mind you cannot come just naturally from the family or somewhere.
10:37 Just as you require expert professors to teach you maths and physics, similarly you require
10:43 experts to deliver life education.
10:49 If that is not there, then the mind will remain very cluttered, very confused and ultimately
10:57 sometimes suicidal.
11:02 What a wastage!
11:07 And what makes the wastage worse is that the lives of those, even those who survive are
11:16 rendered waste.
11:18 We talked about the fellow who is working in a footwear MNC post his electrical engineering.
11:26 Why should that not be considered an equal wastage of life?
11:34 Or the fellow who decides to sell fizzy drinks.
11:39 If you look at the IMs for example, they attract a lot of crowd from the IITs and what do these
11:46 ITNs do passing out from the IMs?
11:51 Somebody is selling fizzy drinks, somebody is selling home loans.
12:01 That is an equal wastage.
12:02 But we don't want to talk of that.
12:05 We talk of that as gainful employment.
12:08 In fact we gloat over that.
12:10 We say this is heroic.
12:14 My journey has attained a three crore package and that sometimes comes to the newspapers
12:23 as well.
12:30 That should indeed come to the newspapers as a thing of tragedy, not as a matter of
12:37 celebration.
12:38 [Music]