Stop Chasing Praise – Know about Ego and Validation || Acharya Prashant (2025) - video Dailymotion

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00:00Chaharji, there was one thing that the exhibitionist mind it looks for validation from the outside

00:22and now when I think about it then I understand the fact that the exhibitionist mind is constantly looking for validation

00:32but I find myself that I am pretty much like I can understand that it is fake and it is not what they understand about me it's not real

00:47but when they talk bad about me I know that it is wrong and it is coming from their conditioning but it still hurts

00:55so and I also watched one of your videos in which you were saying that you don't need to apply anything

01:01you just need to keep on understanding but even after understanding if it still affects you then how to approach that

01:08let it be, let it hurt, let it remain, see that it is a tendency

01:14see the theoretical reply would be that if condemnation hurts you then somewhere you are looking for praise

01:34even if it is implicit praise or subtle praise but there is some hunger for praise right

01:41or the inner condition is the condition that the ego has set is don't give me praise

01:51but don't condemn me either so there is some condition that the ego is setting on the world

02:00the fact is the world has a movement of flow of its own you cannot set any condition on it

02:07right you cannot set any condition on it and if you are getting hurt it means there is an expectation

02:17a condition right see that it exists will it improve over time don't keep that condition

02:26and one other question like when we talk about like in one of the Gita sessions there was something

02:33called a Yag when when when when we are watching our small Chetna and we are working for big Chetna

02:39and we are working for big Chetna so it becomes Yagy in this way you have said that if we are watching

02:43a good film then it is a kind of Yagy but does reading good literature and watching good films

02:50does that also count as consumption and if yes where do we draw the line you see the right book or the right

02:57movie yeah would not be an easy read it would demand

03:09a dropping or giving up I'm trying to avoid the word sacrifice but that's what it would actually demand

03:18a sacrifice so if if that's the kind of book you are with a book that's like an examination

03:30a book that's a test then it's a yes yes because there is a certain giving up and if I keep indulging

03:41in those kind of activities which feel like it if I keep bearing those activities not indulging if I

03:47keep bearing such books yes and is that fine like if they take up obviously obviously obviously

04:03different from the people like so you are.

04:09Hey, good.

04:14Hey, I really didn't know you were scared because there was a sudden.

04:16It was actually me I was scared.

04:18Right.

04:20It was like you

04:23Wow, Umuchua, here you are.

04:24Well, you are.

04:26It is me, this is me but it is me.