Love Yourself || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Love yourself, Punish yourself || Acharya Prashant, at Goa University (2022) Link: https://youtu.be/Q0ATbtC5AzA

Transcript

00:00In blaming others, obviously there is some satisfaction, some pleasure, right?

00:03I'm a victim. All the predators have victimized me. I'm a hapless victim.

00:07There is pleasure in asserting this way, right?

00:10Also, there is some compensation that you can extract because I'm a victim, so you must compensate.

00:14So there is this side and then there is real improvement and empowerment.

00:20Which of these do you want?

00:21So that's why it doesn't behove playing a victim all the time.

00:25And the ego loves to play the victim. Why?

00:27Because it is itself the culprit.

00:30The best way to avoid punishment is to play the victim.

00:34If I am the victim, how can I be punished?

00:36We all deserve punishment. That punishment is love.

00:39Punish yourself. Love yourself.