Running After Desires || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How Observing Desire Leads to Freedom from Doership? || Acharya Prashant (2023)

Transcript

00:00What's wrong with running after an object?

00:03The simple answer is it's an inefficient investment of my resources.

00:08That's what is wrong.

00:09Nothing religious or spiritual or moral about it.

00:12Simple economics.

00:13Running after something is a very inefficient investment of my life, energy, time, resources.

00:19And that's what you see spirituality is.

00:22Life economics.

00:23We talk of material economics.

00:24You don't just have stuff in your wallet.

00:27You have stuff in your heartbeat.

00:30There is stuff in your wallet that is numbered and finite.

00:33Equally the number of heartbeats that you have are very finite.

00:38So spirituality is life economics.

00:39What to do with these limited number of heartbeats that you have?

00:44What to put your life into?

00:46If you put your life into desire, that's an inefficient investment.

00:50It does not give you what you want from it.

00:52The ROI is very bad.

00:53So you observe that.

00:55And that observance itself is liberation.