Everything is about YOU! || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Here is the purpose of life || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2022)

Transcript

00:00Why do we need to talk of purpose of life?

00:02Because we do not feel alright as we are, and where we are.

00:08Because we do not feel alright where we are, therefore we need to be somewhere else.

00:12So it all starts from you.

00:14What is it that would fulfill you?

00:15Because you are the one who is restless.

00:17Over the millennia, countless people have tried power,

00:22and countless have tried money, and knowledge, and prestige, and adventure,

00:28and you name it, sex.

00:30The child is born crying.

00:31The eyes are continuously wandering in search of something.

00:34The ear wants to hear some special kind of news.

00:37The mind is continuously restless.

00:39And then there were those who realized that we want an end to all wants.

00:46We desire the end of desires, and that is called liberation.

00:49And that is moksha.

00:51Coming to the end of desire itself, that's what desire wants.