Pleasures of Life || Acharya Prashant

Full video: This pleasure is very necessary || Acharya Prashant at IIT-Delhi (2022) ~~~~~~~~~~

Transcript

00:00The pleasures that you are having in life, are they taking you higher, or are they making you more of animals?

00:06Now what's wrong with being an animal?

00:08That's not your nature. You will suffer.

00:10Take an airplane up 35,000 feet.

00:12It takes generations of engineering to put the plane up there.

00:17What does it take for the plane to crash?

00:19Nothing.

00:20One drunk pilot and the plane is gone.

00:22It's always easier to fall.

00:24Marijuana, weed.

00:25Do these turn you conscious?

00:27No, but they are pleasurable.

00:28Because there is something happening.

00:30There is something happening, so you feel probably the right thing is happening.

00:33At least I am no more in my current state, because the current state is of suffering.

00:36So some displacement has happened.

00:38And you hope that the right moment is happening.

00:40No, the right moment is not happening.

00:42Most of the times, the default movement is the wrong one.

00:45The right movement, you have to be very careful about.

00:48It's a sensitive, delicate thing.

00:50It has to be crafted.

00:51It has to be engineered with all your intelligence and devotion.

00:56The wrong thing is like free fall in gravity.

00:58It just happens.