Sweet outside, rancid inside  Acharya Prashant - video Dailymotion

Full Video: How to get rid of addictions? || Acharya Prashant (2016)

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00:00In the office you are Mr. Nice. In front of the wife you are Mr. Submissive.

00:05Then in the bar you will be the most raucous and unmanageable drinker.

00:11Breaking bottles, throwing tantrums, inviting brawls.

00:16The mind knows that it is suffering in one condition.

00:18But it is not intelligent enough to know that the opposite condition is no better.

00:22And even if it does know theoretically it cannot help it because the mind lives in dualities.

00:27So if I do not like A, the only option that I have is to move to the opposite of A.

00:33The mind does not have the option to move beyond A.

00:37So sitting here it starts feeling suffocated. It jumps to this place.

00:42Here again it feels equally suffocated. It again jumps to this and this and this.

00:46This is what we call as life.

00:47The option to sublimate, to rise beyond both A and B somehow does not come to the mind.

00:54It is possible but it does not come so easily.