Video Information: 22.11.21, Shastra Kaumudi, Rishikesh, Uttar Pradesh
Context:
~ How to break our comfort zone
~ What gives power to change life
~ What is love?
~ Who dare to take risk in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ How to break our comfort zone
~ What gives power to change life
~ What is love?
~ Who dare to take risk in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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LifestyleTranscript
00:00 Acharya ji, the next participant is a finance professional.
00:07 She has been listening to you for a year or two now, attended a few camps.
00:13 She says, Pranam Acharya ji, why is going against yourself always so tough?
00:20 I find that I get overpowered by pleasures whenever I try to take steps
00:29 towards the right direction and then I find myself quitting very often.
00:37 Kindly help me with my state.
00:38 You need love.
00:41 You need love.
00:42 Only love can trump pleasure.
00:54 The joy of love overpowers all kinds of material mental pleasures
01:12 and only love can do that because it is indisputable that when you want to go against yourself
01:34 and you face physical mental hardships, it appears so normal, so logical to stop punishing
01:47 yourself.
01:48 You say, what am I doing all this for?
01:54 Why can't I live a normal life?
01:58 Why do I need to deliberately punish myself so much?
02:05 If you don't have love, you won't have an answer.
02:14 Only love can make you commit the kind of madness that is needed for realization.
02:32 Spirituality seen from the view of the ego is insanity.
02:49 From the point of view of the ego, spirituality is insanity.
02:54 You require that insanity and only love can make you go insane.
03:05 Otherwise pleasures are just so overpowering, they captivate you.
03:16 Pleasures are an intoxicant.
03:21 To beat pleasures, you require an intoxicant even bigger.
03:35 Pleasures make you go mad.
03:39 To beat that madness, you require a madness even bigger and that can come only from love.
03:50 Otherwise, there can be no logical reason why one must make himself or herself suffer.
03:59 The question will be in pursuit of what and you will have no answer because liberation
04:05 is no thing.
04:07 You cannot tell yourself, well, I am putting myself in distress to obtain that particular
04:18 goal, to get that particular thing.
04:22 Liberation is no thing.
04:24 So the logical question will be, what for?
04:31 Why so much discipline?
04:34 Why are you being so tough with yourself?
04:38 Don't you have some self-love?
04:39 Please be kind to yourself and you will have no answer to such inner voices.
05:02 Only love can make you obstinate to the extent that you stick to your guns even without having
05:11 an answer.
05:15 You have no answer, you have no defense, yet you continue doing what you do that happens
05:25 only in love.
05:28 The interrogator is shrieking at the top of his voice, kindly explain and you have
05:33 no explanation to offer.
05:35 And he says, if you have no explanation to offer, then mend your ways.
05:40 You say, no, I would neither explain nor change.
05:49 I will not explain because I genuinely do not have an explanation and I won't change
06:00 because I am helpless.
06:01 I genuinely cannot change.
06:04 So I will remain unreasonably mad.
06:14 I will be mad without knowing why I must be mad.
06:28 You cannot convince yourself to fall in love.
06:34 You cannot convince yourself to go for freedom.
06:40 If you do not have love for freedom, no logic for freedom can convince you.
06:50 There are some places where logic cannot supplant love.
07:01 How do you convince somebody that freedom is important?
07:04 Either it is self-evident or it is impossible to explain.
07:15 How is it self-evident?
07:16 It is something a priory.
07:20 You know it without somebody having to tell it to you.
07:27 You just know it.
07:30 You just know it.
07:31 I love freedom.
07:32 Why?
07:33 I just love freedom.
07:34 That's my nature.
07:35 There is no reason to it.
07:39 There is nothing behind it.
07:42 It is an uncaused love.
07:46 It is not a product of something.
07:49 It has no cause.
07:52 It just is.
07:55 So either it just is or it never is.
08:01 It cannot be made to appear.
08:08 I am not trying to discourage or disappoint.
08:22 It is not possible to coerce someone to fall in love.
08:32 But you can create conditions in which the barriers against love get weakened.
08:45 What are the barriers against love?
08:48 The biggest barrier against love is the routine life.
08:55 The routine life has been set purposefully in the kind of routine that forbids love.
09:09 You will have to break away from your routine life if you want to give love a chance.
09:21 Because a routine life is not incidentally routine.
09:27 That routine comes with a hidden nefarious purpose.
09:34 The purpose is that love should not blossom and the routine should continue.
09:39 Love is the death of that routine.
09:42 For the routine to exist, love must be nipped in the bud.
09:49 Are you getting it?
09:54 So get away from your routine.
10:01 Make yourself available to threatening experiences.
10:15 Go beyond your cocoon of safety.
10:40 Remember that the inner and the outer go together.
10:44 If you want to change the inner, you cannot keep insistent on the outer.
11:04 Let your environment change, let your company change, let your experiences change.
11:15 Ensuring that your experiences do not change is ensuring that the experiencer never changes.
11:30 And the experiencer is suffering.
11:33 You don't change your experiences, you continue suffering.
11:37 [Music]