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Full video: Life is random. And it's ok. || Acharya Prashant, at DTU (2023)
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00:00There is one thing that is bigger than chance and that is who you really are.
00:07Situations can affect everything about you.
00:12Situations cannot affect you, provided you know who you are.
00:17Why was somebody born a male?
00:19Why was somebody born a female?
00:21Nobody decides that on his own, right?
00:23It just happens.
00:24Why was somebody born or somebody not born at all?
00:26Why black?
00:27Why white?
00:28Why is somebody born with a silver spoon?
00:29Why is somebody born in an impoverished family?
00:33Luck.
00:34Chance.
00:35Obviously that has a great power.
00:36But there is one power we said that's greater than chance.
00:40And what's that?
00:41The power of the self.
00:43And what is self?
00:44That within you that must remain unaffected by chance.
00:49Otherwise, you will be puppets in the hands of luck, chance, prakriti, randomness.
00:56Choose your world.
00:57Does it sound great to be a puppet?
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