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00:00Even if I'm listening to Gita, I sometimes see outside towards to seek happiness in the outer world.
00:07And not just realizing that joy is the main state, not the.
00:11That's the human condition. The real thing is expensive.
00:16And we want to save money for all the unreal things.
00:18You have the money but not the budget.
00:20Why? Because your budget is dedicated to some nonsense.
00:24I'm depressed for existential reasons so I go for Bhelpudi.
00:27What kind of solution is this?
00:29Love yourself enough to give yourself the highest.
00:33Don't settle for anything lower or lesser.
00:36But what is that point where I can see like,
00:39okay, I do not need the outer things to satisfy or make me happy.
00:44Am I progressing towards that stage?
00:46All things are outer.
00:48Because the world is everywhere.
00:49Even that which you call as within is world.
00:52So this way or that way, you will have to go to the world.
00:54You can go to a bar.
00:56You can go to the gym.
00:58All of these are outside.
01:00When you are with the right people, right books, being at the right places,
01:04then they'll be available when the time comes.
01:07You can go wrong.
01:09They won't go wrong.
01:10One can be a fool.
01:12But they are foolproof.
01:14So when we observe ourselves, there is a joy or happiness comes from within.
01:20Should we say that as a happiness or actual joy?
01:24Joy is not really an experience.
01:26If you know, if you are conscious that you are joyful, then you are not joyful.
01:30So Achalit ji, I am a PhD student here in the US and you have taken my questions before also.
01:41From inside, we are sorrowful.
01:43And because of that sorrow, we always try to seek experiences for happiness.
01:48And the more the sorrow we have within inside and we try because of that, the more we have the intensity to chase that happiness.
01:56And the way we realize sadness is the state, not the center.
02:04Like while I was looking towards myself, I could see that throughout my life, I have seen or I have chased towards the experiences that the sadness can be overcome through these experiences towards my life.
02:18So if I experience that sadness, I pursue or go towards consumption of products, which are even if not needed or the events or the products or to make me feel happy.
02:32So the question which comes to my mind is, even if I'm listening to Gita for some time or some wisdom literature from your end, so why this thing keeps on returning again and again?
02:45Why do in the state of sadness, I sometimes see outside towards to seek happiness in the outer world and not just realizing that joy is the main state, not the...
02:59So we have to like go towards the state of joy and not like emphasize more on the sadness.
03:06That's the human condition.
03:08I mean, your vehicle gets a dent, and some scratches and things.
03:23You go to the authorized agency, they say, this thing needs to be totally replaced.
03:30This thing needs to be totally replaced.
03:33Let's say a panel piece or a bumper.
03:35But the whole replacement will cost you rupees one lakh.
03:44And then you go to some shady vendor, random denting, painting saloon, and they say, I can do the job.
03:58You go to a cheap, a cheap kind of fix, only for rupees 15,000.
04:07You go for the cheap fix, don't you?
04:12That's what.
04:14The real thing is expensive.
04:19The real thing is expensive.
04:20And we want to save money.
04:28For all the unreal things.
04:29The real thing is not expensive if you have love for reality.
04:38But we have love for all the petty stuff.
04:46So we want to steal resources from the real thing, so that they can be spent on all the nonsense.
04:53When you say, you know, I don't have the budget for such a thing.
05:00It's the budget that you don't have, not the money.
05:03You have the money, but not the budget.
05:06Why?
05:06Because your budget is dedicated to some nonsense.
05:11I'm talking of the inner budget, not the thing in the pocket.
05:14The inner resources, the inner dedication, the mind space, if you may.
05:24That is reserved for some nonsense, so that cannot be given to the real thing.
05:28If you are in a melancholy state, and happiness can be cheaply obtained by just watching a TV show or having a samosa or something.
05:51There is all the temptation to go for this option.
05:59And one says, fine, what's bothering me is the state, not the center.
06:06So if I can somehow fix my state, I'm done.
06:10And the state can be fixed using some cheap means, we opt for that.
06:14Just that after a while we discover that nothing has been fixed.
06:23The state was an imposter.
06:28The state was just a false front.
06:35The real problem is deeper.
06:37And the real problem has not been addressed at all.
06:45Are you getting it?
06:52You must have self-love.
06:56Which is equivalent to having love for the highest.
07:00You cannot have self-love or self-respect, if you do not have love and respect for the highest.
07:05If you say, you are a self-respecting person, but you do not respect the highest.
07:16Then you are not respecting yourself.
07:17You are just respecting some little and lowly part of yourselves.
07:25Which is not self-respect at all then, right?
07:27It's like saying, I respect the rubbish of my palm.
07:38Because this is the self.
07:40Is this the self?
07:41Is this the self?
07:42When you have real self-respect, then you give yourself the highest.
07:59Don't you?
08:01You won't give yourself some cheap thing.
08:03I am depressed for existential reasons, so I go for Bhelpudi.
08:14What kind of solution is this?
08:24I am being pushed to marry.
08:25So, I decided to take a bath.
08:32It feels great to be under the shower.
08:39Problem solved.
08:41And after the bath, I feel sleepy.
08:44So, I will snore for three hours.
08:45Problem totally solved.
08:49What kind of solutions are these?
08:55Problem solved.
08:59Somebody was saying, when depressed, brush your teeth.
09:11Special toothpaste with antidepressants.
09:13Love yourself enough to give yourself the highest.
09:27Don't settle for anything lower or lesser.
09:35But you can easily settle for anything.
09:37That's the issue with the human condition.
09:47You are entitled to make all the lowly decisions.
09:52Please don't do that.
09:58Acharya Ji, sometimes the resistance comes from within.
10:02Like, no, this is not right.
10:04What I have learned is not the same, which I am experiencing.
10:08But that resistance is for a while.
10:12But then, when there is so much sadness engrossed.
10:16So, sometimes, once in a while, I try to seek, like, okay, should I not consume this thing?
10:23I should go to buy this thing.
10:25But that has, like, over the time, after listening to you, has reduced a bit.
10:30I could see this within myself.
10:32But what is that point where I can see, like, okay, I do not need the outer things to satisfy or make me happy.
10:41So, how could I judge or analyze when would that state come?
10:47Or am I progressing towards that state?
10:50So, some kind of a juggle is there within me.
10:54Please, please, please, please understand.
10:56All things are outer.
10:59It's not that one does not need outer things.
11:03All things are outer.
11:04So, there is no harm in things as such.
11:14The harm lies in approaching things indiscreetly.
11:19So, you are not feeling all right.
11:24There is, per se, nothing wrong with approaching the world.
11:28No, that's fine.
11:31Because the world is everywhere.
11:32Even that which you call as within is world.
11:35So, this way or that way, you will have to go to the world because the world is all that there is,
11:44when it comes to sensual experience.
11:46The thing is, from which center are you approaching the world?
11:54You are not feeling all right.
11:56Right?
11:58You can go to a bar, you can go to the gym, or you can go to the Gita.
12:04All kinds of options are available.
12:06And all of these three are outside.
12:11All these three are outside.
12:12Everything is outside.
12:14But in the domain of the external, the right choices have to be made from the right center.
12:25It's all right to go to a person, if you are feeling down.
12:30It's all right to go to a person.
12:32Which person?
12:35Which person?
12:36It's all right to go to an object.
12:38Which object?
12:40It's all right to go to a place.
12:43Which place?
12:46Which place?
12:47Not that if you are spiritual, then you will always turn within.
12:54There is nothing called within.
12:57What do you mean by turning within?
12:58All these are empty metaphors.
13:01It's all right to go somewhere, but where?
13:04That's the question.
13:08And that's the entire point of discretion and right company.
13:14Vivek and Satsangati.
13:17Oh, pay the price for being with the right people, right books, being at the right places.
13:28All that requires a price to be paid.
13:32When you are with them, then they'll be available when the time comes. Then you can go to them.
13:41Have a great collection of songs or lectures or something. When you need that, it's handy.
13:56You just need to switch the thing on. It's available. But for that to happen, in your sane hours, you need to first make the collection.
14:09You need to pay the price. Are you getting it? It has to be an entire life dedicated to Highness.
14:22I'll make my life a collection of everything worthwhile possible to me.
14:33Have I subscribed to the right publications? Do I have the right books in my personal library?
14:45In the virtual age, now the AI age, not only is stuff available all the time, even advice is available.
15:01You can ask the language models questions and they can give you reasonably good advice.
15:08But for that, you need to have the right practice, the right investments, the subscriptions, even the habit.
15:22It has to be a way of life.
15:29Acharya Ji, can I ask or share my experience if you allow me?
15:37If you allow me. So, I joined the Gita community in February. So, since then, I am like, as you mentioned, life is a constant struggle.
15:49Like, Arjun only received Gita when he was in the battlefield. So, I constantly see that life is a battlefield and me and my husband.
15:59So, try to live the way you try to say in your videos or in the Gita sessions.
16:06So, first of all, like, as you say, like, from which center you are coming from and what things you are listening to.
16:15So, I can see just a reflection is like, I have started going to gym instead of going to the restaurants or other places.
16:23Once in a while, we definitely do go to that places.
16:26But then what to hear, what to listen. Earlier, I used to listen to YouTube and all the random stuff, the podcasts and stuff.
16:33But now, these days, I have a playlist from the Gita community.
16:38And whatever, I have not listened and heard before because I was not there earlier.
16:43So, my choices are, I can see, are changing.
16:46Or whenever I come back to home and want to see a TV, it's like you, your podcast or some good stuff.
16:54Isn't that the change which is coming or is it like my, I'm saying this because I want my ego to be like, okay, yeah, I'm listening to Acharya Ji.
17:05If you are in company of worthy arts, worthy people, worthy books,
17:15you can go wrong, they won't go wrong.
17:26Hmm?
17:29One can be a fool, but they are foolproof.
17:40Right?
17:41So, I can be foolish in my moments.
17:45We all have those moments, no?
17:49But if I have the right things with me, they will assure that my foolishness is addressed.
18:02It's almost like being in the company of a good person.
18:07You can have your whims and fits.
18:12But that fellow will be a stabilizing influence, a centering influence.
18:23Hmm?
18:24So, you cannot go wrong with the, with the, with the right books, right audios, right people, right places.
18:33You cannot go wrong.
18:35However, you can resist them no end.
18:40Hmm?
18:42They will be available and they will do the utmost they can to help because that's their fundamental nature.
18:49So, how?
18:51That's the reason they exist.
18:54So, they will do what they can do.
18:57But you can resist.
18:59That's what you should avoid.
19:01They won't go wrong.
19:03But you can offer a lot of resistance.
19:06Hmm?
19:08So, that's what you have to guard against.
19:12But for sure, having the right collection around you, being in a sacred vicinity, is something you are never going to regret.
19:27Yes.
19:29Hmm?
19:31Anything more?
19:41No.
19:42Thank you so much, Acharej.
19:46Thank you, Acharejji.
19:48My question is that it's on observation.
19:53So, when we observe ourself, and my observation has been changing, I've been listening to you from last year.
20:00It was different.
20:01I was also listening to Krishnamurti.
20:05So, the observation, when we do observe, there is a joy or happiness comes from within.
20:14So, should we say that as a happiness or actual joy?
20:24So, Krishnamurti Yasu says that when you fully, intensely observe yourself with full power of your mind, something happens within.
20:39So, is that the joy that is coming from within?
20:43I just wanted to clarify on that.
20:48Joy is not really an experience.
20:53Joy is not something you can really identify as joy.
20:57Huh?
20:58Put your finger on and label it as joy.
21:02Just as observation, real observation is a passive thing.
21:09Joy is equally passive.
21:15Happiness is sensational.
21:20It's a spike.
21:22It aims to make itself felt.
21:25Hmm?
21:28Joy is like a soothing song.
21:34Mother's lori.
21:39It is not real if you are still listening to it.
21:44The mother sings.
21:47So that you go to?
21:50If after two hours you say, I'm still conscious of her song, that means she's a bad singer.
22:03That's joy.
22:05If you know, if you're conscious that you're joyful, then you're not joyful.
22:09That's the same with all the sublime things mankind knows of.
22:18Love, simplicity, truth.
22:21You cannot be conscious of them.
22:24Consciousness is dualistic.
22:28And the very aim of the real thing is to take you beyond duality.
22:34Beyond duality, there is no experience.
22:39You cannot know that you are joyful.
22:42You cannot know that you are in love.
22:46You cannot know that you are simple.
22:49You cannot know that you are truthful.
22:52Maybe somebody else who is not in truth will be able to identify more clearly, more easily.
22:59Though, here is somebody in truth.
23:02As for you, you'll simply say, I am.
23:05I just am.
23:07If you want to label my state as that of truth, that's your wish.
23:12You may do that.
23:13I just am.
23:15If you want to label me as a lover, you can do that.
23:18But consciously, actively, with motive, with intent, I'm not loving.
23:30I'm not doing anything at all with any intent, any motive, any consciousness.
23:43If I am joyful, I am not consciously joyful.
23:50It just is.
23:51I didn't want it to happen.
23:52There was no motive.
23:53It happened.
23:54I don't even know I am joyful.
23:57The same applies to observation.
24:01You cannot intend to observe yourself.
24:05If you intend to observe yourself, then there is a problem.
24:10It is a subtle thing of honesty that happens on its own.
24:15At most, your intention can be to not be dishonest.
24:21Your observation, knowing yourself, is your passive inner default state.
24:32What obstructs is your determination, your stubborn resolve to not to see the inner fact.
24:42That's what you have to dispense with.
24:47I refuse to buy the arguments of the false.
24:53Once you refuse that, then the inner fact is obviously visible.
24:58The word is obviously, without effort, without activity, without intent.
25:05It is just visible, because it is your own.
25:08It is your own.
25:10How can the ego not know what it is doing?
25:13But the ego never knows what it is doing.
25:16Why?
25:17Because there is a stubborn determination to remain in the false.
25:21It becomes impossible for the ego to look at itself.
25:26Because it knows, it looks at itself and it's gone.
25:31So, that's what you have to stop doing.
25:36The word is stop doing.
25:38It's not about doing something extra, over and above.
25:46It is about stopping what you are continuously doing.
25:49And what is it that we continuously do?
25:51The fact is there and we turn our face away.
26:00They don't want to look at it.
26:01It's there.
26:02How can you not know?
26:04Huh?
26:08The fellow is calling and you are deliberately not picking up the call.
26:11Don't you know what you are doing?
26:13And you also know why you are allowing it to ring.
26:18You also know that.
26:20Sometimes you very precisely know how long after the call will you call back.
26:27Come on.
26:29Who can know of this better than you?
26:31Because it's you who is at the center of the doing.
26:36Observation is about acknowledging what you are doing.
26:39It's not even about seeing.
26:41Why do you need to see?
26:43Why do I need to see?
26:46What do I need to see?
26:48Paper.
26:53Do I need to see what I have written?
26:58Observation is not even about seeing.
27:05It's simply about admitting.
27:07Acknowledging.
27:08I am the writer.
27:10I don't even need to see what I have written.
27:13I need to acknowledge my intent.
27:15If you close your eyes and write, you need to see what you have written.
27:23You are the writer.
27:25Observation is an honest acknowledgement.
27:29This is what I am writing.
27:31This is my life that I am writing on the canvas of time.
27:36I am getting it.
27:41On the other hand, you can keep your eyes open and see, you know, I wanted to write love,
27:47but I have written hate.
27:48What can I do?
27:49My fingers are out of control and all kinds of nonsense.
27:55Observation isn't a thing of great mental activity or great intensity or great doership.
28:03It is a thing that is best when it is passive.
28:10It is a thing that gets done best when it is not done.
28:16It just happens.
28:19In that acknowledgement, are we changing the center?
28:23Or is the center changing?
28:24You are doing nothing.
28:25Nothing.
28:26You are doing nothing.
28:27What happens, happens on your own.
28:29When the ego changes its center, what will it do?
28:32From E1, it will become E2.
28:37It still is the false one.
28:39The false one cannot on its own change itself to the truth.
28:44Is truth some kind of metamorphosis of the false?
28:51Is it possible?
28:53Can the false change its shape, name, form, appearance, color, label and become the truth?
29:06Thank you, Acharya Ji.
29:07Yeah.
29:08Hi.
29:09Hello, everyone.
29:10My name is Richa Sharma.
29:11I am from Gaseba, Uttir Pradesh.
29:12And I have been a part of this family from past five months, five and six months.
29:23And in my journey, like I am listening to Acharya Ji, Acharya Prashant Ji from past, like from 2020, I believe after or during the COVID period.
29:33And now I'm part of the community as well.
29:35So I think that was like my wholesome experience was totally like every single one of you, how we all started with some sort of catastrophic repercussions in our life because of our social conditioning and, you know, the unanswered why's in our life.
29:52So this particular education and these particular sessions are helping me to change me for my betterment and regulated by me only.
30:01So I think this is the best part of it.
30:03And that's how the more you are able to find your own problems within you with the help of Acharya Ji, because he never asked, he never gave any personal advice in sessions.
30:12He always gives you the gyan, the knowledge and, you know, the explanations of Gita, Shlokas and everything.
30:18And now you have to figure out yourself where you are lacking.
30:22I think that is the best part that where you will be understanding all the rich eye of Ved's Gita and along with you will be able to figure out what is wrong with you.
30:32And so I think that is pretty much from my end.
30:35And I really, really want to thank you Acharya Prashant, Acharya Prashant Ji and all the team members for this incredible, incredible efforts.
30:42And we are always here for him.
30:45And thank you so much.
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