Why are we always Competing? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Want to beat the competition? || Acharya Prashant, at DTU (2023)

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00:00Is it all worth it wasting all of our life after running behind all this?

00:05Do you see everybody is competing in some way or the other?

00:07Somebody gets into sports, somebody gets into some cultural stuff.

00:10Don't you see we all are competing in our own ways?

00:13So there is something common within each of us, all of us.

00:18And that commonness is called our fundamental discontentment,

00:23which is continuously begging to be taken care of.

00:27It is saying, please, please, please, I am you.

00:30Take care of me.

00:30But we do not listen to it because we cannot look at it because it is within and our eyes cannot look within.

00:35So we start running hither, thither in some random direction.

00:38Let's compete.

00:39Let me be the best in something.

00:40Let me be the best in that.

00:42Okay, I am the best when it comes to girlfriends.

00:43I have five of them.

00:44Somebody else who has not been lucky in any measure comes up and says,

00:48I am the best in not having girlfriends.

00:50I am absolutely zero.

00:52I too am a topper.

00:53The dimension is different.

00:54We want to be the best in something.

00:56The thing is, the thing within says you have to be the best.

00:59We do not realize what it means to be the absolutely best.

01:02So we decide to be the best in something, anything.

01:06That best is called the self.

01:09Self.

01:09The one who really are.

01:11That's what the inner dissatisfaction is crying out for.

01:14And because you do not address it,

01:16it manifests in all kinds of stupidities,

01:19including ambition and competitiveness and whatnot.

01:22Man was always competitive.

01:23Do not think it is a disease specific to your age.

01:26No.