Loving a Fake Life || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Name: Loving a Fake Life || Acharya Prashant (2022)
Uploaded: 2024-07-08T09:03:35+00:00
Duration: 12 min 23 s
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Video Information: Shastra Kaumudi, 22.02.2022, Rishikesh, India

Context:
~ How to live a healthy life?
~ What is real health?
~ How to have a healthy mind?
~ How to have clarity in life?
~ What work to choose in life?
~ Should one seek social validation while choosing work?
~ How important is money while choosing work?
~ Why do we often underestimate the circumstances?

Music Credits: Milind Date
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Learning

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00:00So right now my situation is somewhat like that. Initially when I, beginning when I used

00:19to come to you, I used to have a lot of questions and there was an urge to understand what's

00:26happening in my life and everything. Then gradually after understanding a few things

00:34then and from last year when I started working, the urge came down and after I felt like I

00:44understood a few things, some changes started to happen in my life. Then right now I feel

00:54like I don't feel much urge towards spirituality and I feel a lot of fearful to ask anything,

01:06any questions to put forward to you and most of the time I have no questions or no resistance

01:11like you just described. So the problem is there are some things which I always choose

01:26Maya in that situations like in my old habits or anything. I know that's false and everything

01:36but I always fall back into my old ways and I keep watching your videos also but not much

01:46as before or not with that intensity but the cycle is keeping, I don't find any much problem

01:55with my life right now. So what is the problem? The problem is that I am living a false life

02:12sir but I have made friendship with my chains. So what is the problem? Like I don't even

02:25have the guts to put forward my situation and my question properly to you because I

02:30feel I am a completely dishonest person like I am filled with Maya and I always make the

02:37wrong choice and I listen to you and I know that this is the right thing but…

02:50So what is the problem? It's okay, just chill and enjoy.

03:00I can't even enjoy properly, I don't feel like living also, not in a sad way but nothing

03:12like previously the only interest I had was to like you used to say like my main goal

03:26should be, it was like that that nothing more is important in my life than my spiritual

03:33progress but right now all that thing is still there but it is very, it's almost gone.

03:50What is the problem? No problem sir, like I wanted to put forward

04:00my situation. No situation is a problem in itself, as long

04:20as you are alright with it. There is no need to ask for a change. Spirituality is not a

04:34moral obligation. Yes sir, I understand that I don't feel morally

04:38obligated to be spiritual but I don't feel like doing anything else also but I also understand

04:48that I don't find anything worthy enough to do sir.

05:11At some point the person has to say a very simple thing, very simple thing, nothing complicated,

05:29nothing exotic, nothing very heavy. I don't like it, I don't like it.

05:57Unless desire itself is channelized away from falseness, there is no possibility, we are

06:20creatures of desire. As long as you keep liking the things that are going on, the situations

06:35you are in, there is actually no problem. But the problem is I don't like sir, I don't

06:46like what I am doing every day, that's why. If you don't like then you have to rebel and

06:54disown and destroy. If you don't like and still want to continue in those things, then

07:03you are not a man at all. That's what I feel sir, I feel like I am a

07:09A machine is not a disrespectable thing, you know. A machine is just a neutral unconscious

07:21object. You cannot accuse the machine of having a fallen consciousness. But to be a man and

07:34still not act as per one's discretion is to abuse one's consciousness. Not much can

07:47be said except that you are not a man at all. Either I say I like what is going on in my

07:52life and therefore I am not acting, then it's alright. But if you say you do not like what's

08:00going on and still you don't act, you don't rise up and change and demolish, then the

08:13only thing that is left to be said is that this is an abuse of consciousness, this is

08:25against consciousness, this is against the very essence of being a human being. What

08:35kind of man knows but does not act, dislikes but does not disown. So, if you want to continue

08:49disliking but not disowning, then the safest way is to say I am not a man. Now, you are

08:59safe. Dehumanize yourself and that's what most of the corporate jobs anyway do, they

09:12dehumanize you, you are not a man now. Even a kid knows this much, without any spiritual

09:34education you put something in the kid's mouth that he does not like, what does he do? He spits

09:44it out. Why can't you spit at the face of your master's inner or outer?

10:14At some point one has to take responsibility and declare I do not like it, this will not

10:22continue because I do not like it. This declaration is what makes you a man.

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11:14You are coming to the Mahotsav, are you? Yes sir. Good, come and sit face to face.

11:27In fact your very face has changed, you do not look the same person you were two years

11:32back. When are you arriving? Tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening sir.

11:58Thank you Acharya.