You Can Buy Happiness || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: World is on fire your happiness is the fuel || Acharya Prashant, conversation (2022)

Transcript

00:00What do you think a person does once he gets some money?

00:03You didn't have money. You were sad all the time.

00:05Now you have a job and some money.

00:07What do you do with that?

00:08You go to the market, binge, splurge.

00:10I have money. I can throw money.

00:12Let me have that one and this one.

00:14And the market tells you that you can have happiness

00:17through consumption.

00:19Come, buy my stuff. It will make you happy.

00:21And it does make you happy for a while.

00:23It's the darkness in the mind

00:25that thinks that you are born to consume

00:28and consumption will make you happy.

00:30You are born suffering.

00:32So the first thing that comes to your mind is

00:34pursuit of happiness.

00:36Why? Because I am a suffering being.

00:38I am a suffering being

00:40who is also ignorant, so he does not know

00:42why he suffers.