Clarity is needed more than courage || Acharya Prashant

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Transcript

00:00It's not so much about courage, it's about clarity.

00:02There are mental conditions in which one seems to become very fearless.

00:10Nothing great about those conditions.

00:12Some drugs, some weed, a bit of alcohol.

00:15And there are so many people who lose all fear.

00:17Tremendously intrepid they become.

00:19They can challenge the God of death himself at that moment.

00:23Three pegs down.

00:25You ask them to jump from a seven story and they would.

00:29It's not really courage that is always virtuous.

00:33Clarity is virtue.

00:36Yes, obviously there are many people who are courageous and in your words brave.

00:43And there are many people who are afraid.

00:45I would not greatly distinguish between the two.

00:49The real distinction is between people who realize and people who do not realize.