A Discipline Beyond Routine || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: My early morning routine || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)

Transcript

00:00What is the perfect daily routine for everyone?

00:02When you have an exam tomorrow, do you say that this is my time to sleep or this is when I watch my favorite TV show?

00:09Do you say all that? The routine goes for it all. What routine? There is an exam tomorrow.

00:13So, give yourself a life in which there is an exam every day.

00:16Then you live very tightly. There is no slack.

00:19Then there is an automatic discipline. A discipline beyond an imposed routine.

00:23Because a routine definitely makes space for leisure, etc. as well, right?

00:28When you say routine, that means these are the hours when I'll study, these are the hours when I'll do this, do that.

00:33And these are the hours when I'll have my spare time for my leisure, etc.

00:36So, you require a discipline beyond a routine.

00:39You commit yourself totally.

00:40There is that song,

00:41Mainu Ishak Nachaya, Tada Thaiya Thaiya.

00:43You are dancing to somebody's tune.

00:45And the master is not you. The master is beyond you.

00:48See, I wake up and I stretch my hand to my workstation, which is my phone.

00:52That's the routine. That sets it.

00:54The ball is rolling now.

00:55And I don't realize when the day ends. I have very little idea.