No risk, no change || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why are we not able to forget the past? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)

Transcript

00:00Past cannot change. So, you go to the past again and again. There is comfort there. There is security there. In the present

00:06there is a risk. What is the risk? Something new can happen.

00:10Going to the past again and again is a symptom of deep fear. I am afraid.

00:16I am afraid of being in the now. I am afraid of all the newness and freshness that life offers.

00:22I want security. I want to live in a cage. You want to live your life in a way

00:28which has been lived by millions of other people, so that there is no risk.

00:34Everybody is living the same kind of life. I will also repeat it. There will be no risk, but there will be no life either.

00:41You will be like a furniture. No risk. No change. A plant can change.

00:46There will be a flower one day. Past is furniture.

00:50Present is plant.