Living in the Present || Acharya Prashant

Full video: What Depression Is Not || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Nagpur (2022)

Transcript

00:00When there is something very engaging and very real in the present, then the future

00:08does not seem to hold much value.

00:10When the present is starving, then you have no option but to turn to the future.

00:16So you say, right now there is anyway nothing to support me or console me or give me joy.

00:24So what do I start doing?

00:25I start imagining, envisioning the future, this is what I'll get, this is what I'll do,

00:30what if that does not happen, oh my God.

00:33And all kinds of hopes and scares raise their head.

00:36The problem is this starved present.

00:41The problem is this bare bones present.

00:44Nothing in it, no flesh, denuded.

00:47It has no nutrition, it has no body, it has no health, it has no aura, it has no charm.

00:54It has nothing that can make you fall in love with it.