Hindu Festivals || Acharya Prashant

Full video: When lust overpowers you || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Hyderabad (2022)

Transcript

00:00Do you see how religious festivals have been designed to offer you pleasure even to the kids?

00:05Throw colors on someone. Now the festival is arising from a spiritual core,

00:10but care has been taken to add an element of very normal pleasure to it so that the

00:15normal public can be attracted. You come, you come, you come. And as you come closer,

00:21you find that now the spiritual core starts beckoning. So some trick has to be used,

00:27something has to be done. Somehow the mind has to be brought close to Vedanta. And once the

00:33mind has sufficient proof that pleasure need not necessarily come from all the lowly things only,

00:40it can come from a higher place too, then it becomes easier for the mind to make a better

00:45choice. There is pleasure in singing the couplets of saints. Why not go for that pleasure?