Name: What makes life complete? | Gaur Gopal Das | TEDxMITP
Uploaded: 2018-05-21T05:13:43.000Z
Duration: 17 min 57 s
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Translator: Sanketh Sampara Reviewer: Queenie Lee

One of my friends in Mumbai, a Gujarati gentleman,

he purchased a very expensive, high-end, upmarket car:

You know cars are expensive in Mumbai, things can't get more expensive than that.

If you have watched this Hindi movie "Deewar,"

Amitabh Bachchan talking to Shashi Kapoor:

(Hindi) "I have a car, a house, money, and servants. What do you have?!"

(English) The rhyme of today has changed, ladies and gentlemen.

Amitabh says, (Hindi) "I have Lamborghini, I have a Jaguar, I have a Bentley,

(English) Shashi Kapoor says, "I have parking space!"

Here in Mumbai, parking space is more expensive than cars.

This friend of mine, a Gujarati, purchased a yellow Lamborghini

Now in India, everything gets blessed: babies, marriages, job contracts;

"So would you like to bless my car, we'll go for an inaugural drive with it."

When do swamis get to bless Lamborghinis? Come here.

The gentlemen drove to our temple in the Lamborghini,

and he said, "We'll go on a 15-minutes drive."

and the gentleman sat in the driver's seat, obviously;

He didn't even have his wife to drive first.

The car encountered a traffic light at Peddar Road.

I can't even remember what model, I'm sitting in a Lamborghini.

and this gentleman in the next car, he turned his head around,

Never in the streets or roads of Mumbai had he seen a slick, yellow Lamborghini.

And his eyes went even bigger when he saw me sitting inside the car!

You should have seen the expression on his face,

I wanted to pull the windscreen down and say, "Man, this is not my car.

I'm the blessing man, 15 minutes blessing and it's done!"

The 15 minutes drive turned into 35 minutes.

I suggested to the gentleman that I need to get back

because there's a very important meeting that I need to attend.

when I just suggested I need to get back,

I believe most of you would be shocked to the core

the first day when you have possession of a slick, yellow Lamborghini,

and you're driving it for the first time.

And these were tears of anguish. How do you know what tears they are?

When tears are cold, they're tears of joy.

When tears are warm, they're tears of pain and anguish.

When someone is crying, don't take a thermometer,

Don't test on others, you can test it for yourself, you know.

This man, with great difficulty, spoke up

and said, "Just three days back my wife has filed papers for divorce."

he loved his wife, his children loved his wife,

for some reason the wife had filed papers for divorce.

And this fancy Lamborghini, expensive, high-end car

this fancy, expensive, plush car couldn't bring him any hope.

While I was driving with him I was thinking to myself,

"God. Look at this gentleman, with all of the achievements that he has:

a first-class business, incredible amounts of money,

and the cherry on top of the cake was a Lamborghini:

if you truly want to know how rich you are

then count all those things that you have that money cannot buy.

Hope, love, respect, dignity, character, integrity, acceptance.

Money is not wealth. Money is just a part of wealth.

all of you are looking forward to having money,

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What makes life complete? | Gaur Gopal Das | TEDxMITP

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