Feeling Hurt by Other's Opinions? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Ask yourself, what do you get by putting others' opinions so much above your own?

00:07Ask yourself factually, do you know your situation better or do others do?

00:12It's a very bad kind of bondage, a deep inner slavery to be always looking at others,

00:19to have very little idea of oneself.

00:21In fact, the compulsion to look at even oneself through the eyes of others.

00:26I want to look at how I am doing.

00:29I want to look at how worthy or valuable or successful I am.

00:34How do I do that?

00:35I look into the eyes of others to know how I am looking.

00:39It's a very helpless kind of state of existence.

00:42Others become your lords.

00:44Do you like that?

00:45That's what a young man must rebel against.