Nothing so serious! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How to stop taking things personally? || Acharya Prashant, with MMMUT (2023)

Transcript

00:00Anyone can come and possess you through praise.

00:04Someone comes and says, oh you are great, and he has had you.

00:07And someone comes and says, oh you are obnoxious, and this one too has had you.

00:12Right? Now someone comes and says, oh you are ugly.

00:15The thing is, you did not even choose to be pretty, how can you choose to be ugly?

00:19Nobody chooses her color, nobody chooses her height.

00:22Someone comes and says, oh you deceived me.

00:25Someone comes and says, oh you are simply incompetent.

00:28Learn to take yourself with more than a pinch of salt.

00:33I am ugly, fine. Here is a joke on ugliness.

00:37You are not important. Nobody is ever important.

00:41There is dust on the table, right?

00:44You know what that dust is?

00:47That dust was a person one day.