External people can't create emotions in you, only trigger ones already inside. The speaker uses Pinocchio and Iron-Man to show how constant reactions make you a puppet. Real freedom comes from spiritual practice and devotion to resolve those internal triggers so nothing controls you.
Nobody in the world can initiate any emotion within you, but they can trigger that which already exists. And hence we should not have krodh towards anyone because they have just triggered that which already existed. Instead, that which exists must be resolved so that nobody can trigger. The Guru who is infinite, the Guru who is divine, I bow down to his divinity. And at the same time, mantra moolam, guru vakyam, moksha moolam, Guru Krupa, that I listen, I listen, and the path that is made, I follow. Why nobody should trigger? Because if there are so many buttons to be triggered, then anybody I meet will be my Guru. Because then they will lay out the path and I will walk their path. Then everybody is the puppet master and I am Pinocchio. What kind of life is it? When anybody can press my button and I start dancing. My son has a toy. I don't know who gave him the toy. He's Iron Man and there are buttons on him. You press the button and he starts monologuing. I am Iron Man. I am rich, playboy, billionaire. I like women. Something, something, very propaganda-laden toy. I don't know what they are trying to teach little children. And you start monologuing. You press the button. Are you like that Iron Man? Somebody press your button and you start monologuing, my guru is the best, my God is the real God. 'You don't know anything.' What is the difference between that plastic toy and you? Why we have to be Pinocchio? 'Mantram ulam, guru vakyam, moksha mulam, guru kripa.' If there are the vikars inside me, then I am triggered by anyone, that anyone is my Guru. And then that life is objectiveless, purposeless, round and round like jalebi, but not as delicious. And that is why the purification and the sadhana Rise up so that everybody I meet is good. I do my part, but nobody can press the button. And I do what I need to, what is my objective, what is my purpose. And I bless, and I do dharma, not karma.
