00:00When the child is born, for the first few days, there is no name at all.
00:07You simply say, baby, it, you don't even address the child like a living thing.
00:14All your names are given names.
00:17What's your real name?
00:19We play a trick.
00:20We call the baby, it, but the moment it gets a name,
00:25we start addressing it as a conscious, sentient being.
00:30No.
00:32It would be much fairer to continue calling the human being as it, its entire life.
00:41Because you're always just a thing.
00:47One in a million manages to come to a place where he can be said to have transcended the it
00:58-ness.
00:59You understand it-ness?
01:02Materiality.
01:03What else is a little baby?
01:05A little material emerging from the womb, knowing nothing,
01:10except its programmed instincts.
01:14But after a while, you start talking, walking, and you're given an identity.
01:19And you start feeling as if, I am somebody.
01:23No, you're not somebody.
01:24You're something.
01:27So when you're asked, who are you?
01:30You give stupid answers.
01:33I'm Manish Jaiswal.
01:35The beloved lets out a guffaw.
01:38He said, what Manish?
01:40Who are you?
01:42That's a given name.
01:43That's a given name.
01:45Tell me your real name.
01:47And to you, it's like a Zen Kwan.
01:49What was your name before you were named?
