What Makes Gandhi A Mahatma?
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0:19 - 0:22Sadhguru: What you can do and what you cannot do,
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0:22 - 0:24nobody else can decide for you,
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0:25 - 0:27nor can you decide,
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0:30 - 0:34because when we say what you can
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0:34 - 0:36were talking about a capability.
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0:39 - 0:42Capabilities are never stagnant;
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0:43 - 0:46capabilities can be constantly enhanced, isnt it?
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0:50 - 0:51So,
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0:53 - 0:54theres really no limit as to
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0:54 - 0:57what one can do,
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0:57 - 1:03because capabilities can be constantly enhanced.
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1:08 - 1:11Its better to look at it in terms of
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1:14 - 1:16am I holding myself back
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1:19 - 1:24for concerns other than what I want?
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1:24 - 1:27Many human beings,
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1:27 - 1:31you have seen people whom you,
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1:31 - 1:34who are historically known as great beings;
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1:36 - 1:39this is all that happened to them.
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1:39 - 1:42They were living with a limited identification.
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1:42 - 1:43Suddenly for some reason,
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1:43 - 1:46some event broke their identities
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1:46 - 1:50and suddenly they identified with a larger
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1:52 - 1:54process that was happening around
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1:54 - 1:58and they did things that they themselves could not imagine.
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1:58 - 2:01For example Mahatma Gandhi,
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2:01 - 2:03a very limited man,
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2:03 - 2:06He could not make a living.
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2:06 - 2:09He got qualified as a lawyer.
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2:11 - 2:15I remember what he wrote when he
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2:15 - 2:21when he went out to fight his first case in the court in India
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2:21 - 2:25he says, I stood up to argue my case
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2:25 - 2:28and my heart sank into my boots.
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2:30 - 2:32This was his expression,
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2:34 - 2:37and of course he lost the case.
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2:38 - 2:44Then he decided this law is not for him.
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2:44 - 2:46He must seek some other profession because
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2:46 - 2:53he doesnt have the courage to stand up and speak in a court room.
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2:53 - 2:57Does that sound like Mahatma Gandhi?
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2:58 - 3:01The man just moved millions of people.
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3:01 - 3:04Just one incident,
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3:04 - 3:06suddenly his old identities broke.
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3:06 - 3:09He went to South Africa to make a living
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3:09 - 3:12and he was doing okay as a lawyer.
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3:14 - 3:19And one day he bought a first class ticket in a train
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3:19 - 3:21and got in
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3:21 - 3:23and he traveled some distance.
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3:23 - 3:24In the next station somewhere,
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3:24 - 3:30another a white South African got in.
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3:30 - 3:33And he didnt like a brown skin man sitting in a first class,
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3:33 - 3:35so he called the ticket collector.
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3:35 - 3:37Ticket collector said, Get out!
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3:37 - 3:39Mahatma Gandhi said,
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3:39 - 3:42I have a first class ticket.
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3:42 - 3:45He said, It doesnt matter, just get out.
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3:45 - 3:48He said, No, I have a first class ticket.
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3:48 - 3:49Why should I get out?
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3:49 - 3:51So they threw him out of the train.
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3:51 - 3:54His luggage and everything they just threw him out
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3:54 - 3:56and he fell on the platform
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3:56 - 4:00and he just sat there for hours.
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4:00 - 4:02Why did this happen to me?
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4:02 - 4:04I bought a first class ticket.
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4:04 - 4:06Why am I thrown out of a train?
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4:06 - 4:12Suddenly he identified himself with a larger predicament of the people.
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4:12 - 4:16Till then his survival, his law, his making money was all important.
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4:16 - 4:21Suddenly he identified with a much larger problem that existed
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4:22 - 4:26and he became a colossus
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4:27 - 4:30just broke that little identification
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4:30 - 4:34and moved into a much larger identity.
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4:37 - 4:42Probably there is never been another man on this planet
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4:42 - 4:46who moved as many people as Mahatma Gandhi moved,
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4:46 - 4:49with such simple ways.
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4:49 - 4:52I dont call him a spiritual person,
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4:52 - 4:56but socially, politically absolutely relevant for that day.
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4:56 - 5:02Never before another conquering force on the planet has been
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5:02 - 5:05made to vacate the land
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5:05 - 5:08where they had taken roots,
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5:08 - 5:09without firing bullets at them
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5:09 - 5:12or killing them or anything like this.
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5:12 - 5:14Never before such a thing has happened.
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5:14 - 5:16People who have conquered the land,
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5:16 - 5:17have conquered at a certain price,
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5:17 - 5:20they wont go easy.
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5:20 - 5:23They wont go easy,
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5:23 - 5:26but it was made to look as if they went easy.
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5:26 - 5:29It didnt happen easy,
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5:29 - 5:30but without fighting,
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5:30 - 5:33without bloodshed,
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5:33 - 5:39because the man could move people into that kind of action
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5:39 - 5:41but a kind of passive action.
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5:43 - 5:47See, shooting at the soldiers whore carrying guns is one thing.
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5:49 - 5:53Throwing bombs at them is another thing,
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5:53 - 5:56but just going there,
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5:56 - 5:57standing on the street
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5:57 - 6:00and willing to be beaten down on the heads;
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6:00 - 6:02with cracked skulls you fall down.
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6:02 - 6:03One line of people fall down,
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6:03 - 6:07the next line of people come and give their skulls to be broken again,
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6:07 - 6:10is a completely different kind of strength.
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6:10 - 6:12Its not easy.
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6:12 - 6:18It takes a very deep inner strength for a person to do that.
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6:18 - 6:21Dying in fighting is different.
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6:21 - 6:22You are also fighting;
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6:22 - 6:24somebody else also is fighting with you.
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6:24 - 6:25You get killed;
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6:25 - 6:27thats a different thing.
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6:27 - 6:33Without fighting just going and getting killed is a very different thing;
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6:33 - 6:37and thats what he managed to do.
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6:37 - 6:40And all that happened to him was
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6:40 - 6:43from his small identity of himself and his family
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6:43 - 6:44and wanting to make a living,
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6:44 - 6:46his identity just exploded,
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6:46 - 6:49identifying with a larger problem of the people
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6:49 - 6:52that was there at that time.
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6:54 - 6:55So,
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6:56 - 6:59dont put a limit on yourself as to what you can do
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6:59 - 7:01and what you cannot do.
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7:01 - 7:04You do everything that you can do,
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7:04 - 7:11what does not happen is what you could not do, isnt it?
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7:11 - 7:14What did not happen is what you could not do, isnt it?
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7:14 - 7:16But you did everything possible,
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7:16 - 7:18everything that you can imagine,
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7:18 - 7:20still some things didnt happen.
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7:20 - 7:22Those are things you cannot do.
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- Title:
- What Makes Gandhi A Mahatma?
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Sadhguru looks at Mahatma Gandhi's life, and explains how a normal human being was transformed into something superhuman. This happened because his limited identities broke and instead, he identified with the larger process that was happening around him.
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