The Real Celebrity || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Living Without Illusions: A Lesson on Expectations and Reality || Acharya Prashant (2025)

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00:00The fellow is a trillionaire, therefore, he must be at least a little intelligent.

00:05I have no such compulsions.

00:07I do not find it necessary to respect or regard someone just because he is a prime minister

00:14or a charming celebrity or even a most revered religious leader.

00:19Since I do not anyway expect them to behave sanely, therefore, it does not come to me

00:25as a surprise when they behave insanely.

00:28I know in advance that the one who does not respect self-knowledge is compulsively going

00:37to be a lunatic irrespective of how intelligent or respectable he looks.

00:43I do not go by their looks, therefore, or the degree or the social position they hold.

00:49There is only one yardstick, only one criterion that I have and that is self-knowledge, Atma

00:56Gyan.