Unleash Your Inner Superman! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why do superhero movies work? || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)

Transcript

00:00Why do people fantasize about superheroes so much?

00:02The superhero is not really merely a fantasy.

00:06In some sense, the Superman within us is more real than anything else we know of.

00:12Because it is the Superman we all live for.

00:15So what can be more real than that?

00:18Who wants to live a mediocre life of suffering?

00:21So it is not a privilege, not just a fantastic ambition to be a Superman.

00:26It is your fundamental obligation towards your own life.

00:30You will have to be a Superman if you do not want to die suffering.

00:33It's not the outsiders that you need to fight.

00:36It is not the alien invaders that you need to fight.

00:39The real Superman fights the evil within.

00:43The evil within.

00:45And that's why I said the Superman really is the highest potentiality resting within each of us.