Oh, Oscar Wild.

Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

What do you think?

I think Oscar expressed our modern dilemma pretty well here, right?

You know, we're very clear about price.

We know exactly what Netflix costs per month or what a

subscription or upgrade will set how that will set us back and we're we're trained to calculate expense

but when it comes to like a value we're not trained right we don't naturally ask is this enlightening me

is it making me wiser finder more awake is this enlightening me? Is it making me wiser, pinder, more awake?

Is this refining me?

Or is it like dulling me, like in slow drops of dullness, right?

We can spend hours consuming entertainment and information without ever asking questioning like, is it actually

elevating me? Is it changing my character? Is it expanding my inner life? You know, and it's

understandable because most of us were never taught how to think that, you know, think that way.

We don't analyze something to say, it's going to upgrade me or degrade me. But when you get

a book like the Bhagavigida, it offers like a new set of lenses, right, to see the world. It explains, we don't abandon lower taste by sheer willpower. This is exactly what I was saying before the show. I didn't even, you know, I didn't. That's what I'm, that's, it's exactly what you're talking about.

You know, but if I don't get rid of that, you know, uh, lower taste by willpower and go for that higher taste,

then the, the, the riptide of material existence will drag us to Rajas and Thomas, the mode of ignorance and the mode of passion.

We have to be very, very stalwart to hold on to Sutva, right?

And that's the deeper tragedy, Oscar Wilde is pointing out, like not materialism itself,

but the absence of a higher experience, higher experience in a, right?

Right, right?

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