namaskaram sadguru there has been an
increase in cause on smoker hotline from
tobacco smokers trying to quit their
habit despite their best intention it is
physically very difficult to quit
because of their addiction to nicotine
sguru what are your recommendations for
those people in this
struggle well uh the this is not
me the medical experts are
saying that the virus if you get it
smokers die
first that should be a
cure I'm not trying to be cruel to you
I'm not somebody who is moralistic and
say you should not
smoke I'm not even looking at it as a
moral issue as some people look at
it it's just
that doing something that's against your
system is
senseless another thing is suppose you
form some pleasure in
that and you're doing it it's okay I'll
leave it to
you but the biggest problem for me is
that you become compulsive about simple
things in life that is a big problem for
me you smoking that's not a big issue
for me you're doing something
compulsively this is a big issue
because you you are throwing away the
evolutionary benefits that this human
being has that he can do everything
consciously but you are choosing to
compulsively do something what you might
have picked up as a fad or as a pleasure
as a simple pleasure in your life you
like
tobacco you like to
smoke I'm not coming in the way all I'm
saying is
don't throw
away the evolutionary benefit
because this mother earth and nature has
worked for a million years to get you to
this level of awareness Consciousness
and intelligence this size of
brain when people are using their brains
today to see how to make a car that
doesn't
smoke
you
you still smoking what is
that once in a way you wanted to smoke
because you enjoy that I will leave that
I will not enter your personal life to
that
extent well it doesn't make sense but
everything need not make sense it's okay
but you
compulsive that no no because these
millions of years of evolution is just
going waste in you Going Up in
Smoke
literally now should I give it up should
I give it up what is there to give
up see if smoke was coming out of your
ears you should go for
treatment something burning
inside but you're taking it in and
you're blowing it out there is no
treatment you just have to make up your
mind you can only make up your
mind because you seen those Mal
ads huh because you thought you a real
man only when you
smoke no no no I'm not being gender
prudish women also can smoke of course
oh what makes you think only men can
smoke no no you can also be
stupid being stupid is not only a man's
privilege everybody has a
right
only thing
is stupidity takes on many forms of
hurting various
lives but the most basic form of
stupidity is that you choose to hurt
this life though there is physical pain
and many other things involved still you
choose to hurt this
one this is not happening by choice you
might have started by choice but after
some time it's just one big
compulsion you I want to give it up I
want to give it up don't do all this if
you forcefully give it up you will start
doing some other crazy
thing this once
happened
sh one day was just leaving the office
and his office colleague a young
woman asked him can you please uh drop
me home today he said yes it's like a
gentleman he took her he opened the door
everything they were
driving when a lonely stretch of road
came he
stopped and suddenly he became like an
octopus that means he had eight
limbs he was all over
her she pushed him away and said you
fool I got into your car thinking you're
a decent fellow what are you doing he
said I'm sorry I'm sorry I quit
smoking
so you don't do these things
forcefully if you understand if you are
beginning to
understand that we are understanding
that a bus Which smokes heavily is not
good a car that smokes is not
good but in the evolution of an
automobile they are still in that place
where they still have to
smoke not all of of them have become
Electric in the evolution of an
automobile still smoke is all
right we are working towards a smokeless
one but still smoke is all right because
the evolution of automobile has still
not reached that place where it's
totally smokeless but the evolution of
this became very smokeless long time
ago it throws out carbon dioxide this is
its nature
but now you want to inhale carbon
monoxide or Whatever It
Is Well you just have to see it's
stupid once you see something is stupid
you don't have to give it up it'll go
right
now you're feeling
little you think it's very smart to do
this especially when you are 14 15 years
of age when you smoked you you thought
you're really doing some great
thing so whatever your age now if you
understand this is a stupid thing that
you're doing uh you don't have to give
it up it'll just fall off because you
don't like to be stupid I know
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