What is the purpose of life, when death is certain_ _ Acharya Prashant (2018) (1080p_25fps_H264-128kbit_AAC)
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00:00 When do worries exist?
00:08 When you are still alive and breathing and bodily, right?
00:20 And that's how we are born.
00:23 Worried, afraid, insecure.
00:27 If you take biology as nature, then it is natural to suffer.
00:33 But those who have known have told us that biology is not what you call as natural.
00:40 The word natural as is used commonly in the English language is misplaced.
00:47 If you go to Sanskrit, Sanskrit will say this physical nature, this biological nature is
00:53 prakriti and true nature is swabhav.
01:00 English language unfortunately has only one word nature.
01:03 So it gets very confusing.
01:05 You start calling the body as natural.
01:07 The body is not natural.
01:09 The body is merely prakritic.
01:13 Nature is something else.
01:14 Nature is not perceivable.
01:19 Nature is empty and very full of joy only.
01:27 So we are born crying.
01:31 We are born crying.
01:32 That is biological nature.
01:36 Suffering is inherent in our genes, in our DNA.
01:44 And that's how we live.
01:46 But suffering is not frightening us.
01:48 Of course it is.
01:49 Anything that troubles you, just call it suffering.
01:52 There is no need to dissect it too much.
01:56 It's good to look on suffering, but frighteness has no use.
02:01 Is it possible to not to be afraid and still suffer?
02:09 It's not possible.
02:10 You think so?
02:12 Of course.
02:13 It's not matter of even thought.
02:16 Fear is the thought, the perception that you might lose something.
02:23 And what else is suffering?
02:27 The perception, the feeling that something is at stake, that something is being hurt,
02:32 wounded or taken away.
02:35 Fear and suffering go together.
02:36 They can't be differentiated.
02:39 But if you're talking of pain, that is a different matter.
02:42 I talk about pain.
02:43 Ah, that's a difference.
02:44 Of course.
02:45 That's a difference.
02:46 So man is born crying.
02:50 And the veils only grow louder as man moves through life.
02:57 And then there is death.
02:58 Why was man born?
03:01 To cry all his life and then perish?
03:08 If you look at the whole thing, then maybe something about death will appear.
03:16 Death is a point in time, right?
03:17 That's what you call as the incidence of death.
03:20 And life you call as a stretch in time.
03:22 Isn't time an opportunity then for change, real change?
03:26 Time is anyway defined as change in space.
03:33 Isn't time also an opportunity for genuine change before time ends for the physical organism
03:42 and the moment of death arrives?
03:45 Isn't time an opportunity to move into the timeless?
03:50 And if one hasn't done that before his physical death, hasn't he just wasted his life?
03:56 One can live rightly, one can live wrongly.
04:00 Physical death anyway arrives.
04:05 Why not taste what it means to live rightly before death arrives?
04:14 Good opportunity.
04:15 Good opportunity.
04:16 Yeah.
04:17 As we are, we are constantly longing for change.
04:21 As we are, we are constantly longing for change.
04:26 And this situation must disappear.
04:29 That's what is called as genuine change.
04:33 What we usually ask for is superficial change.
04:37 Why?
04:38 Because even if we change, we still want more change.
04:41 So that is no change at all.
04:45 Those who have known have said, change a final time.
04:53 Change the last time such that you are never again required to change.
05:03 If the teaching is that no change is needed and remain as you are, it's a very, very poisonous
05:11 teaching because as you are, you are turbulent and always crazy for change.
05:22 You must be told that you need one final change and it's then a dimensional shift.
05:30 The kind of change that we are accustomed to is I'm here, then I move here, then I get
05:35 here, then I get here, then I get here.
05:37 But whatever I do, it's all in the same dimension.
05:41 Real spiritual change is when you see that all this is just so stupid and that seeing
05:50 elevates you.
05:53 Now the sky is yours and in the sky there are no boundaries or points or demarcations.
05:59 So you can keep flying freely in the sky of no change.
06:04 A lot of change is happening.
06:05 You are flying freely, yet there is no change because sky is infinite.
06:09 In infinity, no point can have any location.
06:13 And yet there can be a lot of changeless change.
06:19 On the earth in your finite dimension, this is not okay, this is not sufficient.
06:24 Let me have that, let me accomplish that and having done all of that, you are still thirsty.
06:36 So in the desert you go up to another dimension.
06:39 You see that, huh?
06:43 Not nice to play this game.
06:45 This game will consume me.
06:46 I will end, this game will never end.
06:49 I better opt out.
06:51 You have any suggestions how it works?
06:56 If you can really see that there is a blemish on your forehead, some dust, some dirt and
07:11 the mirror shows you that.
07:13 After that, does the mirror also need to advise you what to do next?
07:18 There is a mirror, the mirror has shown us where we stand and who we are.
07:24 What bigger and better suggestion do you need?
07:26 If I now make a suggestion, it would be an imposition.
07:32 It would be an unnecessary authority.
07:34 Why take that?
07:36 So would you say that that change, you say you're going for that one change, would you
07:41 say it happens gradually or would you be like, boom, it happened?
07:44 Both possibilities are there.
07:46 It depends on you.
07:47 If you are someone who likes things gradual, it will happen gradually for you.
07:54 If you are someone who is bold enough to just jump into cold water, it can happen instantaneously
08:00 for you.
08:01 Both are there and both things have happened historically as well.
08:07 And how do you know when it's happened?
08:10 You lose a lot.
08:12 You lose a lot.
08:14 So it feels like no divine sparkles from me.
08:23 I'm sorry.
08:24 Very simple thing it is.
08:28 You feel okay.
08:29 Have you ever had a headache?
08:34 How does it feel after the headache?
08:38 That's enlightenment.
08:40 The head is still there.
08:43 The head hasn't rocketed away to the heavens.
08:48 The head is still there very much on your shoulders.
08:53 It's just that the head is not aching anymore.
08:57 You see, this side of the road, there are so many cafes.
09:04 The kind of change that we are accustomed to is cafe hopping.
09:11 I'm in this cafe, then for a change, I go to that cafe and then that cafe and then that
09:16 cafe.
09:17 Doesn't matter which cafe I go to, I remain this side of the road.
09:21 And then that side of the road, there is the Ganga.
09:25 A point comes when you are tired of cafe hopping, then you just plunge into the Ganga.
09:31 That's liberation.
09:32 Ganga has not changed.
09:34 Because it keeps changing all the time.
09:38 You can't take a picture of the Ganga and ever find Ganga that way.
09:43 Would it be possible?
09:44 That's the thing with the absolute as well.
09:46 You can't picturize it.
09:49 Someone said to me, Vishyakash is here because Ganga is here.
09:54 And Ganga is here because the invisible source of the Ganga, Shiva pervades everything.
10:03 That's how the world is.
10:09 There is that and there is this.
10:12 And both are very, very proximal.
10:17 You can decide where you want to be.
10:22 That's Vishyakash.
10:23 That's also the world.
10:24 Isn't it so easy to find what you want?
10:25 Where you want to be.
10:26 But the remembrance that wherever that is, this too is near to that is important.
10:40 Which means one has power, one has choice, one has the capability to leave that and be
10:51 somewhere else.