From Instinct to Insight || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Don't React, Respond. || Acharya Prashant

Transcript

00:00Someone comes and says something unpleasant to you.

00:02Do you need to just immediately, unthinkingly explode, as most of us do?

00:08Or can you tell yourself, I'm not an animal, I can wait, I can be patient.

00:12Let me at least think over it.

00:14And if I think deeply, the thought will sublimate into understanding.

00:18Even if I can't go to that depth of thought, let me at least try to think.

00:22Let me at least postpone the reaction.

00:25Because the reaction belongs to the jungle, to the animal, to the caveman.

00:29Am I jungly?

00:30In the jungle, we didn't have haircut.

00:32No one wore clothes in the first place.

00:34When you have dropped all that, why can't you drop your reactiveness?

00:38If you live by the code of the animal, you will live the life of a slave.

00:42The more reactive and the more emotional you are, the more easily you will be enslaved.