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Mohnish Pabrai's Q&A session with students at the JNV Pune on December 25, 2022
Chai with Pabrai
The Key to Happiness Is Elimination of Desire
We are used to seeing beggars who are very skinny in India. What would happen if we saw a beggar who was really fat? Have you ever seen a fat beggar? This is the Hawaii Nahi Hakeapi.
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Now what happens in India is that
Speaker 1
let's say you see some beggar on the
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street. We are used to seeing beggars who are very skinny in
Speaker 1
India. What would happen if we saw a beggar who was really fat? Have you ever seen a fat beggar? This is the Hawaii Nahi
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Hakeapi.
Speaker 1
In US, you can find a lot of fat beggars. But in India, you cannot find fat beggars. Because what will happen is that the beggar is fat in India. Nobody will give the person any money.
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He will become
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slim. Then he will start getting money. So he knows he has to stay slim to get
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the money as he won't get the money.
Speaker 5
So the
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situation is in the US that this
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is all in your mind. So basically Buddha has a saying, the key to happiness is
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the elimination of desire. Now if you look at
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someone like Buddha sitting
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under the Bodhi
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tree, what does he
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have? He has nothing. Is he happy?
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He seems to be quite happy. He is sitting under the tree doing nothing. He is meditating. He seems to be quite happy. So if I were to lose everything, I am sure I will be sad for some time. But I don't think I will be sad for very long.
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I will then think, okay, I
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can take a
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job.
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