Right work is its own reward || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Karma and Reincarnation || Acharya Prashant, at Arth : A Culture Fest (2022)

Transcript

00:00Many good people who are doing good things don't get back good things in life and many seemingly bad people

00:06No, I get a lot of things in life. If you are doing something really good. The reward is instantaneous

00:11You need not wait for the reward and if you are waiting for the reward

00:14then the goodness is still very partial incomplete and so

00:19Independent that it does not have to look towards the future or towards circumstances or towards any external party

00:26Giving you a reward you do the right thing and you have been rewarded

00:30In fact doing the right thing is a product of internal rightness when you are internally, right?

00:36It's then that you do the right thing and then the right thing. It is its own reward

00:42Then you are not really, you know staring at the future

00:47with your

00:49Stretched almost like a beggar asking for a reward and feeling disappointed. Well, I did the right thing

00:54But life did not reward me the way it does other people