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the meaning of life. There would be a blood donation cam and the holding would read, "Donate blood, save a life. And you feel like asking save what exactly? Save what? What do you mean by life? A breathing mass of flesh. That's life. What's life? Something that begins when the child emerges from the body of the mother. What is life? Do you really want to save life? Then first of all learn what life is. Then you will really be interested in life and much less interested in giving birth.
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Life comes much later and very rarely. And life comes only if there is a determined effort to come alive. Otherwise there is just death. And it is so interesting and intriguing that death wants to avoid looking at death. You are your parents. I am you. We all are one. We all are alive. We all are dying. There is life called death. There is death called life. Right? Look at this entire game of consciousness. How we relate to each other, how we are born, how we go through life. And then death is nothing special. Not sure if it helps, but I hope it does. It does. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.
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talking of things that are not uh related to life itself that are not related to the living entity and are uh rather uh about this that some other world, some mystical pleasure, some rare enlightenment, then obviously be it philosophy or spirituality, they get disconnected from this living, beating, breathing thing that we that we call life right? Please understand right now you you sitting on a chair material chair you're wearing clothes shoes holding a pen in your hand correct this is where we live and this is where our concerns are. This is life. No, our pains, our sorrows, our hopes, our desires, our relationships, that's that's what constitutes life. Correct? Our dilemmas, our livelihood. To be here, to be there, whether to be at all. That's what life is. The mic that I'm that I'm holding right now in my hand is more emblematic of life than any godly figure we can imagine. This is real. This means something. This has a direct and tangible connection to who I am and what is happening between you and me. Right? But if I say that this mic is the proper subject of spiritual inquiry, it would sound
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daily schedule. If the media, the TV conditions you or a book that you are reading conditions you that you will call as life. But if in the same 24-hour schedule I speak to you, then you call it as something outside of life. That tells me about your definition of life. What you are saying is only nonsense and trash of the highest order can be called as life. Anything high that is available that you will not call as life. I mean did I meet you in your life or have I met you after your death? Are you not alive right now as you are listening to me? Then what is this insistence on I will not listen to you. I would rather learn from life. I mean fine. Who can have a problem with that? We all can learn only from one source and that one source is called life. The question is what is it in your life that you are choosing to learn from? Rephrase your question. You do not know what to ask. The question is not whether you will learn from life or you will learn from teacher. This or is fictitious.
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the definition of life when it comes to our species just because a person is moving walking seeing hearing eating inhaling exhaling you cannot call that person alive we are alive when we are conscious and the extent of our aliveness depends on is proportional to the freedom and the height of our Consciousness that's the definition of life when it comes to homo sapiens now are we alive or are we just walking around like machines like Robos robots do walk they even talk and if you are not attentive enough you might feel the robo is a sentient being we have very Advanced robots now they can almost emote they can read your face they can judge your Expressions they can respond accordingly what's the difference between a robo and a human being you don't call her Robo as alive right why do you call a human being alive because we are conscious we can understand no Robo can ever understand we'll be taking up the bhagavad-gita today verses from chapter 4. even the most advanced supercomputer can translate those verses it can never understand them get the difference right please no Robo can ever understand what the
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somewhere what is life the feeling that there is a future that will fulfill me what is life the feeling that there is a world out there that can harm me harm me or inflate me enhance me this is what we call as life right life that is driven by goals desires objectives this is what we call as life and this is obviously a joyless life because in this life you are assuming yourself to be incomplete in this life you are assuming yourself to be unfulfilled so this is a joyless life what we call as life is just joyless stress tension random chaotic movement H that is what we call as life if joylessness is life surely Joy will sound like death death if we have taken joylessness to be life then Joy will sound like death death but still we want joy hence Joy is the love of ha of life with death that which you call as life has to be given up in Joy H you know why we keep feeling that we are not liberated because Liberation is the death of the one who feels so it is easier to keep feeling
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your life too what else is life for life is is not something you can just sit and eat from life is like this body it needs to work if it doesn't work what happens to it one great way to kill you is by confining you in a room full of luxuries and saying you'll be given the best food to eat and no work to do and all the time to sleep and entertain yourself within four or 6 months you will drop dead that tells you something about life life in some sense is like a machine it exists for the sake of an output what kind of output that's for your discretion to decide life is like a car it can't keep standing at one place you can't say you know beautiful thing Let IT stand here let me polish it service it let it stand here we are we are supposed to work toil exert yourself we are supposed to exert ourselves so much that we finish ourselves off in the Endeavor I know this is not probably the answer you wanted you were emphasizing on financial literacy but there is already more financial literacy
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source is called life. The question is what is it in your life that you are choosing to learn from? Rephrase your question. You do not know what to ask. The question is not whether you will learn from life or you will learn from teacher. This or is fictitious. The question is we all learn from life. There is no other place to learn from. As long as you are alive, what else will you learn from life? The question is what is it within life that you are choosing to learn from? H an ass will deliver you a solid kick from its hind legs. that you can call as life and you say I am very prepared to learn from that that is called life but if a person meets you and tells you a few things that are sublime then you say no no no this is outside of my life then what is within your life only the ass and its powerful kick you surely are one person who doesn't care for his teeth more than a teacher you require require a dentist then and this is a very commonly heard refrain. No, you see
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and sparrow. This is one way of thinking. This is one center of thinking. When only sky and skyness remain then this center of thinking becomes completely dislodged. Death belongs to this particular center of thinking. With this center of thinking gone, death too disappears. Great news. The bad news is with death also disappears this life that we call as life. Because this that we call as life is interwined with what we call as death. Every living being here is moving continuously towards death. Therefore you cannot talk of life as we generally use the term without bringing in the concept of death. You tell a child, you know, he's a man and he's alive. And the child asks, what do you mean by alive? How do you explain? You say, you know, alive means he's not yet dead. So life as we know it cannot even be defined in absence of death. Otherwise, how will you explain to the child the meaning of the word alive? He's asking, "What do you mean, daddy?" You say we have four people alive here. You're saying what do you mean by alive? Explain life without bringing in the concept of
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spiritually want to know what is the meaning of life what is the purpose of life then it could be just said in a very blanket way, the purpose of life is liberation. But liberation from what? Liberation from what? Liberation from all that which troubles you. And what is it that troubles you? Your essential sense of self is what troubles you. H. So it is very easy to say that the purpose of life is liberation. All right. Liberation. But liberation from what? Liberation from oneself. Because we sustain our troubles. If your office is what troubles you, does your office come to your home and harass you there? No. You travel every day to your office to get harassed. Right? So we sustain our troubles. We willingly walk into our troubles. Yes. So purpose of life is to be liberated from the obligation to remain troubled all the time. Okay. It's diff I mean I understand that literally what what is being said but there are people who have responsibilities towards society families and all that. So they have to go travel make that painful sustainance. One has to first of all know what his real responsibility
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But this is a question worth asking to everybody. Is there something outside domain of reason? You wake up, you eat, you sleep, you go to office, you earn money, you have spent a lot of age. Is that all that there is to life? This waking, eating, sleeping, producing of kids, opening of another bank account, closing of a bank account, shifting of houses, planning a baby, planning a job change. Is that all that there is to life? And if life is just this much then is this life worth living? Me my mine. Where have I reached? How much have I progressed? How do my numbers show up? Am I doing better than yesterday? Is the quality of my work improving? What are people thinking about me? Are my mental needs being met? Are my physical needs being gratified? Can I feel good about myself? by saying that this is what I have learned. This is the knowledge that I have gathered. This whole business of my gathering, my knowledge, my progress is this all about life. Your little apartments, your little rooms, your little concerns, your little wardrobes, your little cars, your little sense of meanness.
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Define life itself first of all is I'm alive what's life we don't know what life is yet we keep claiming we are alive where's that claim coming from then money career responsibility a huge word especially in India respons what respons ibility what's this word explain God God what's God but just because you find this little word being used endlessly you feel as if you know and everybody else knows nobody knows knows and not because God is unknowable but because we are foolish you have never even tried to ask if there is a word there ought to be any definition and if there is a word Sans a definition then it's an absurdity birth birth birth you don't know what birth is and yet you celebrate death you don't know what death is and yet you resist and mourn it what is birth Define birth today it took me like 40 45 minutes just to convey a very sketchy understanding of birth and that kind of useless job is mine but 45 minutes what was being done what is birth let's come to a definition and even that is a transgression what is is what do
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the objects of life you must understand that life ultimately is just a meaningless thing you might drop dead tomorrow tell me what is the meaning of life covid came and so many several lacks Millions perished what is the meaning of life please tell me is there any meaning to life there is no meaning to life life is random no meaning there and equally it can be said that meaning lies within the living one it does not lie in the objects of life things happen events happen there is no meaning there look at them with Equanimity yeah things are happening what is happening things are happening meaning so something happened and then somebody says what does that mean oh nothing I lost 10 lakh Rupees ah what does that mean nothing the loss is real the meaning is not the loss is real it will reflect in your bank statement you lost 10 lakh Rupees but is there any meaning to that no there is no meaning will you file a complaint now obviously you must will you try to recover it with the bank obviously you must but even if you recover it is there
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a decision something is happening just as you wake up eight move sleep speak similarly these two is doing something hmm it has no real option in front of the forces of nature forces of conditioning it has no real option it will only do what it is dictated to do it might appear to be doing something but it really does not do anything it only gets tossed about it's only a plaything you can really do something only when you understand what's going on only when you understand what's going on so that's one definition of life you are alive when you know you are alive when you understand and only when you understand if you do not understand then you are moving thinking performing activities but not really alive what has to be drawn towards understanding one must have an affinity for knowing realizing that affinity is called love one is pulled towards that gives us another definition of life you are alive if you are pulled mysteriously towards realization if you cannot do without understanding if you cannot beer to not to know and yet be breathing and the more you understand the more it makes
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stuff goes hand in hand with the contempt we hold for that which is really important. In some contexts it is called joy. In other contexts it is called peace. In some other context it is called understanding because we do not give sufficient importance to these. So random things become important. Peace, truth, understanding, joy, they are another name for the sacredness of life. If they are not there, then life is not worth living. So now you know what is meant by honoring the present. What is meant by making the best of life in all conditions? Ask yourself right now that which I am engaged in, is it a thing of understanding? Do I realize what is going on? If I do not realize what is going on, then life is being wasted. I'm not giving sufficient attention to realization rather my attention is very wavered and focus on some trivia am I giving sufficient importance to simplicity truth a subtle joy if I'm not giving importance to these then surely many useless Valueless things are occupying my mind and usurping importance. The difference between the ordinary man and the sage is not that the ordinary man
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sometimes worshiping him. What is this thing? Have I really bothered to inquire even if God fills so much of my mind? What is country? What is patriotism? What is meant by celebrating a particular day? Do I really know? If I don't know, why am I doing all this? Why am I living this way? Who am I to live this way? A name that was given to me by my parents. A religion that was given to me by my family. A gender that was given to me by my chromosomes. A birth that was given to me by chance. Who am I? A bundle of educational qualifications, a bundle of beliefs. What is meant by living? Breathing, eating, walking, sleeping is that living, partying, entertaining, getting entertained. Adventure, is that life? What is life? And if I do not know what is life, am I really alive? So it's easiest because you don't have to watch any object. You have to look at yourself. H your thoughts, your actions. It's the easiest and it's also very difficult because your mind has been trained only to look at other things and your eyes are such that they only
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is not a question can this remain with you as a question what is life who is the living one why the hell do we exist at all this is the is the central question in in Vidant in in all Indian philosophy and when you go to the West in existentialism this is the moot question what is life all about and I think uh we all bear the obligation to to ask this question and remain with it all our life and to never to settle with easy answers come on tell me what are you thinking um because you just declared something I want to know more why is this two and thr happening it it started from your side right so you tell me why is this two andr thing without knowing why you are asking this question you ask this question that's impossible there must have been something so you admit that there is a need to get satisfied do you yeah but the way you are operating that need is not being met do you see this so you have to understand what the need actually is you have to go into the actual
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material. Material becomes life. Amino acids they start behaving in a certain way and then they organize into bigger and bigger and bigger units. And the biggest unit you call as the human being. So then like what is the goal of life? If I am unwell right now, do I need a goal of life or do I need a goal for this moment? If I'm in a burning house, should I ask what is the goal of life? If I'm in a burning house, what is the goal? To get out. That's the goal. We all are in burning houses. Get out. That's the goal. And getting out is not a thing of the future. You have to do it right away. That's that's suddenly not settled. I understand. I mean, it's it's deep deep timehonored conditioning. H takes long to go away. But yeah, sir, my question is again a followup to this question. You said that the matter is the origin of life. Then what separates things which are alive and which are not alive living and non-living? What separates both of them when both of them come from matter? And uh why is it that
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defined in absence of death. Otherwise, how will you explain to the child the meaning of the word alive? He's asking, "What do you mean, daddy?" You say we have four people alive here. You're saying what do you mean by alive? Explain life without bringing in the concept of death. Can you? Huh? So when death disappears as an immortality then along with death life too disappears. Bad news. But what disappears is life as we know it. Now life as we know it, feel it, experience it, live it is no fun at all anyway. Or is it? So the bad news is probably not so bad. How is it? With death disappears life, right? Immortality is not freedom from death. Immortality then is freedom from your mortal self. The ego self. Immortality then is freedom from life. When you say somebody is now immortal or am what you mean is that he's no longer alive. in a very distorted way. We acknowledge that when upon somebody's death, we say they're basically no longer alive. So, you're no longer alive. Right? But then what was there anyway in being alive? Therefore, immortality is only for those who have
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called love one is pulled towards that gives us another definition of life you are alive if you are pulled mysteriously towards realization if you cannot do without understanding if you cannot beer to not to know and yet be breathing and the more you understand the more it makes you lighter because lack of understanding is a burden lack of understanding is a confused mass that sits on your head the more you know the more that mass keeps getting cleared clearing away of that load that freedom is a great relief it is an absence of needless suffering it is called joy that brings us to another definition of being alive being light being joyful being grateful that you could lose it and understanding is a constant movement because it is never ever absolutely complete it is a constant invitation it is a new challenge every movement so being alive its movement being alive is energy being alive is freedom now you must also naturally see what is lifelessness to be lifeless is to be in defiance of realization that is also what is laziness that is also what is sloped or lethargy all the same life constantly
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call as life when we say our entire life is built on some basic definitions the first word that we must learn to accurately Define is life itself how do we know what is life there's nobody in whose life words like career money education are not important I'm talking to stud students who are just entering a professional course they all must have thought in terms of the word career how do you know what is career what is it what is livelihood what is work also given the age bracket our students are in words like love relationships uh youth companionship aloneness these must be important to them right and we very well know how so much of our life depends on these things our concept of livelihood money career relationship how do we know whether we really understand what work is all about but work is such a common word there's nobody who would say he or she does not understand the meaning of work w r k this word exists in the English language this word exists even in the language of science so we all think we know work but do we do we theads
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what is life how do you call somebody alive a dew drop vanishes in no time as it have life talk about yourself what do you call as your life your aliveness we have this instrument here snore anybody can push the buttons and get it to operate in the way they want to you can record the noise of the marketplace in this and you can record the most beautiful music in this it's all the same it does something it moves it reacts do you call it alive would you call it alive why not then how is breathing eating moving sign of life forgive me my consciousness why doesn't it have consciousness if I toss it up it goes up to a certain point and then it comes back it seems it is making a decision to come back how is it not conscious it is making a decision something is happening just as you wake up eight move sleep speak similarly these two is doing something hmm it has no real option in front of the forces of nature forces of conditioning it has no real option it will only do what it is dictated to
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What is important in it? What is my relationship with life? These are very important questions to pursue especially in your age. You'll be making major career and life decisions in the coming years. And this question is indispensable. Without this question, how do people manage to uh make decisions and pursue life and vocation? I just don't know. Any follow-ups? No, sir. Thank you. Welcome.
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and debate what is it that we really need to do? What are we here for? You see all these are things in life. No, the education you get, the job you get, the the family you are born in, the spouse you choose, these are all things on the table and it's a very vast table. The none of these things is life itself, right? But at times when we are afraid and when we are nervous and when we do not uh know then one of these things or several of these things can appear larger than life. Clearing an entrance exam can become a matter of life and death. Getting that particular job can become the central purpose of life. A heartbreak in an affair can push you to contemplate suicide. These things start appearing so big. Are they really so big or is there something else that you exist for? And if there is something else that you exist for, shouldn't you utilize your knowledge, your courage towards that? The knowledge you would be getting in your campus would be fabulous. The question is what is that knowledge to be used for for personal consumption that
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be over with in an afternoon be with this question for long what is my life for what what what exactly it's a it's a it's an important question to ask if you take yourself seriously if you do not take yourself seriously if you are okay with your own suffering then one can be very cavar with life and are we connecting are we together we can have lighter questions as well no isues not that we want to turn this into a philosophy class