Sweet Outside, Rancid Inside || Acharya Prashant

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

Transcript

00:00In the office, you are Mr. Nice.

00:02In front of the wife, you are Mr. Submissive.

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

00:10Breaking bottles, throwing tantrums, inviting brawls.

00:14The mind knows that it is suffering in one condition.

00:16But it is not intelligent enough to know that the opposite condition is no better.

00:20And even if it does know theoretically, it cannot help it.

00:22Because the mind lives in duality.

00:24So if I do not like A, the only option that I have is to move to the opposite of A.

00:29The mind does not have the option to move beyond A.

00:33So sitting here, it starts feeling suffocated.

00:36It jumps to this place.

00:37Here again it feels equally suffocated.

00:39It again wants to do this and this and this.

00:41This is what we call as life.

00:42The option to sublimate, to rise beyond both A and B, somehow does not come to the mind.

00:48It is possible, but it does not come so easily.