You are cheating yourself || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Maya, fully explained || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2021)

Transcript

00:00Let nobody say that he or she is making the right choices in life because she does not know.

00:06We all know. We prefer to suppress the inner knowledge.

00:10It's an inner conspiracy against ourselves just because we want to continue enjoying certain privileges in life.

00:17Certain physical privileges, material privileges, monetary privileges.

00:21If you want to just test whether people are living in ignorance or self-deception, there is a simple test.

00:29Go and declare something to them that takes them towards the truth.

00:35The moment you show the mirror to people, the moment you want to bring the truth to people,

00:40they actually actively balk away. What does that tell?

00:45They knew very well in advance that they were living in the false.

00:51So ignorance is just an ugly ploy against oneself.

00:57Nobody is really ignorant.