The Truth About Self-Respect ll Acharya Prashant

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00:00Self-respect is not that aggressive thing that we see in the movies or find depicted in popular culture.

00:06You have a great movie made where the king has self-respect, so he is conquering his enemies.

00:11Very superficial expressions of self-respect, no.

00:14For Vedanta, self-respect is self-knowledge.

00:17The more we carry nonsense within us, the more we lack in self-respect.

00:22And this nonsense is what Vedanta challenges.

00:25For self-respect to be there, you need to be very naked in terms of not having any beliefs.

00:30I have nothing here that can make me insecure or vulnerable.

00:34Now, who can hurt me?