Cure for Laziness || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Bunk lectures and skip classes? || Acharya Prashant, with BITS Pilani (2022) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Transcript

00:00Those who are lazy, lack not in energy but in understanding.

00:04You do not know that you need to work and that work will get you benefits, dividends,

00:10joys.

00:11Therefore, you are preferring inaction over action.

00:14Had you really known the sweetness, the ambrosia of right action,

00:19you would have chosen right action over laziness every moment.

00:23Will you ever miss a date because you just overslept?

00:26And if you do that, you will curse yourself entire life.

00:29Sleeping offers some pleasure, dating offers a higher pleasure.

00:33Therefore, you will not keep lying down there lazy.

00:38It's just that in the case of dating, the pleasure is very physical,

00:42very gross, very easy to see, appreciate and calculate.

00:46In the case of right work, the joy is internal and subtle

00:50and therefore difficult to quantitatively calculate and so we miss out on it.

00:54Because it cannot be easily quantified, therefore we quantify it as zero.

00:58That's our inner trick.