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Full Video on YouTube : What Is Paap, What Is Punya? || Acharya Prashant, on Bhagavad Gita

Video Information: 25.01.2025, Goa

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00:00The worldly definition of smartness is quite stupid.
00:05Real smartness is about being able to beat yourself.
00:10It is not about being able to beat others.
00:13If you can fool others, dominate others, compete with and beat others,
00:18if you are better in the game of meeting your desires, that is no smartness.
00:25I am bad and then I do something very skillfully.
00:30With a better technology to make me worse, I'm already bad and being bad,
00:35I make a choice that makes me worse. How smart is that?
00:39Smartness is when you look at yourself and say, my desires are all hodgepodge.
00:45What is the point in fulfilling my desires when I do not even know where my desires are coming from?
00:52What is the point in fulfilling these desires when these desires are not even truly mine?
00:57That's called beating yourself.
00:59That is smartness.
01:02Smartness is a great tool.
01:03Smartness is a great tool.
01:04Smartness is a great tool.
01:04Smartness is a great tool.
01:05Smartness is a great tool.
01:05Smartness is a great tool.
01:06Smartness is a great tool.
01:06Smartness is a great tool.
01:06Smartness is a great tool.
01:06Smartness is a great tool.
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