Before you fight the society, fight yourself || Acharya Prashant, on 'The Fountainhead' (2019)
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Video Information: Shastra Kaumudi Live, 16.09.2019, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India
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Why are we affected by the society?
How to see Howard Roark while reading The Fountainhead?
How to look at someone's life?
How to understand the evil?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Thank you so much acharya ji.
I am reading the fountainhead for some days,now, and i am so glad that i watched this video after reading the book.
Everyone who will read the book, I wish, they listen you on this at least once, carefully.
Awesome video. People get really into the the trap of victimhood that somehow society caused all the suffering and pain without realizing their own inner tendencies, how pure their heart is. Fight against ourself is the biggest and toughest battle we have to win which is almost 90% of our life long fight. Remaining 10% battle is the fight against society. Grateful to get insightful nuggets of wisdom from Acharya Ji. Pranam 🙏 🙏 🙏
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Even the social conditioning happens because we are born physically vulnerable to the social conditions
Thank you so much acharya ji.
I am reading the fountainhead for some days,now, and i am so glad that i watched this video after reading the book.
Everyone who will read the book, I wish, they listen you on this at least once, carefully.
The Fountain head by Ayn Rand, the novel he is referring to. 🙏🏼
Excellent communication
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Roark's character has been crafted to showcased someone who is not influenced by others.
The duality is stark. The world is populated by beings who are just to vulnerable to other beings, to tradition, to social norms. And in this world there is Roark, who is very immune to others. THe difference is binary. There are those who get affected by others and then there are those who just don't get affected by others.
The primary corrupting influence upon man does not come from others. It comes from within himself. Ann Rynd has ignored that side of human corruptibility.
The thing is that nobody is born perfect. We are all born as bundles of genetically conditioned masses of flesh and bones.
It really appeals to the ego to emulate Howard Roark, because one feels that zippy thing, "I do not listen to anyone. I will not bow down before anybody" But we conveniently forget that the corruption comes not so much from others, but from within ourselves.
There is a greatness in allowing the world, the society not to mean too much to you. There is a greatness in standing up to the temptations and the fears that society maims you with. But do not be persuaded to think that if you do not listen to society, you are all pristine and pure and virgin. Not at all! This division (that Ayn Rynd provides) is useful, but not total.
Some of the worst villains and offenders in the history of mankind are people who had no respect for society
Society is often a culprit, but it is not a primary culprit. Never forget who the primary culprit is. Today if you find the bulk of mankind corrupted, it is not because others are corrupting every single person, it is because the seeds of corruption lie very much within our bodies.
It is very very relieving and fascinating to shift all the blame of ones deprivation and conditioning to the society. It feels great to fight the society. There is a lot of heroism in fighting others. The thing is that at no point has Roark been shown as fighting himself.
Fighting others is all right, who will remember fighting herself first? Remove the others? Does that bring purity and aloneness and joy to you? Does that happen?
It is not so much the society that corrupts a human being. I repeat - corruption is inherent, embedded in the body itself.
Your real fight is not against the society, it is against yourself.
10% of the problem is society; 90% of the problem is what sits in your body. And the society is not responsible for what sits in your body. It is evolution. It is what this entire journey through time has given us. How is society responsible for that?
Having conquered yourself, you do not remain greatly interested in conquering others.
We forget that the real culprit sits within, not outside.
The child is born vulnerable to corruption.
Body identification is the root cause of all evils. Society plays a secondary role.
Your real enemy is your own brain. And once you can see that the brain is a conditioned mechanism designed to function in only a specific way, then there is a possibility to stand apart from all this hotchpot. And when you stand apart, then you let the machine do what it has to do. And then what you do is called genuine creativity.
The fundamental of wisdom says "Look at yourself first"
The fact is that you have a lot of your mother already inside you. Why don't you talk about that?
Maya is not other people. Maya is your insides eating you out from within.
Be very very careful before acting like a victim of others. The ego relishes self-victimization. There is nothing so pleasing to the ego as to say that others are all baddies and I'm the goody, and the baddies are all ganged up against me. But I'm the good one, I'm the savior of the world, I'm the only shining light of the world.
Use Howard Roark to see that it is possible to resist the greatest of temptations and fears. That much and that much; beyond that would be foolhardy.
Real rebellion is not so dramatic. Real rebellion is subtle, implicit. Real rebellion does not consist of turning in a poem in Hindi in response to an assignment in English Literature. But that is unfortunately what I have seen many people learn from Roark.
Perspective - to put a thing in its right place, neither up nor down.
Am I a fly to look only for dung, or do I know how to worship cleanliness as well. That's called perspective. Know where Howard Roark stands and then love him. Because he is still lovable.
All our body beings. All are like you. And it should be a matter of introspection why another being, born with all the physical tendencies just like you was able to rise so high. Such an introspection would really be an agent of change within you. It would provoke some soul searching, some humiliation. It would ask you to wonder whether you have done justice to your potential. You were born and the other was born, there were two babies who were born. How was that other baby able to rise to the heights of a Paramhansa, or Jesus, or Krishnamurthy? Why did you not do all the things he did? After all the conditioning, there is choice involved. Why did you not exercise your choices rightly.
To get over our guilt, we declare that the other person was born perfect.
These luminous figures, in one way are very like you, and in an other way are very unlike you.
When you see them in both these ways parallely and simultaneously, then it will provoke a guilt, a shame, a fire within that will cause you to change. Because then you will have to accept that somebody who is totally like you is also totally unlike you. Now, that's a shame.
The other person is just like you, and is still stellar. Now, that humiliates. That is what you must always consider. What I am calling perspective.
How did he make it happen? Why couldn't you make it happen?
The more you expose or reveal that the other person also belongs to the earth, the more you are bringing humiliation upon yourself. Because he indeed does belong to the earth, just as you do. How was he able to launch himself from the earth to the stars? Why did you not make the attempt?
See that Roark is not the ultimate beautiful being. And then love him for the beauty he has. That is perspective.
Thank you so much for your notes!
Hats off to your efforts...... 🙏🙏
Thanks a lot!
really appreciate your effort..
Good advice
Acharya jis Genius at work
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Thank you sir.🙏🙏
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Getting the true essence of wisdom is more joyful in one's mother tongue only....if possible please do translate the videos as it is..
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What is being discussed? I didn't get a clue...
The Fountainhead by ayn rand
You'll need to read the book "Fountainhead".
To listen aachrya prshant you should have a functional mind
Otherwise you will not understand anything
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