GPS of the Mind || Acharya Prashant

Full video: We are all just atoms. Then why do we fight so much? || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)

Transcript

00:00and you set your GPS it asks for two things. It asks for the place you want to go to and also

00:05there is something called your location. Remember that? If you do not know your location,

00:10can any map in the world help you? When it comes to your physical location, the satellite suffices.

00:15The satellite will tell you what your location is even if you do not know. But when it comes

00:19to your mental station, where you are as an individual here inside, no GPS or app or satellite

00:28can help you. That you have to know. Money might satisfy me, entertainment, excitement,

00:33drugs, knowledge, power, sex, sports, whatever. I mean you name it. Man has tried everything.

00:40We continue to run without ever coming to a halt and ultimately we find that our days are over

00:48and we are dead. The entire life spent in hustling without ever really reaching.