What is the quality of your entertainment? || Acharya Prashant (2021)
Video Information: 26.10.21, Shastra Kaumudi, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Context:
~ How to find something better higher thing in spiritual path?
~ How to stay on one path and practice in spirituality?
~ How to find real teacher?
~ How to be with the teacher's teaching?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~ How to find something better higher thing in spiritual path?
~ How to stay on one path and practice in spirituality?
~ How to find real teacher?
~ How to be with the teacher's teaching?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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00:00 The question Acharya ji says that you just said to defy oneself but I am unable to renounce
00:09 defy entertainment, movies, beautiful imaginations and physical comfort which cost me professional
00:16 academic and spiritual progress.
00:18 Please help.
00:19 No, you see you have to understand that whatever you do it's all a movement towards the same
00:33 oneness whether you are watching movies or entertainment or whatever else you said all
00:45 that is directed towards the one same thing.
00:50 However, you are not being fair to yourself.
00:57 You are not asking yourself whether you love the destination deeply enough to take the
01:15 shortest route to it.
01:19 There is nothing in the world that does not lead to the truth.
01:32 The most heinous of crimes, venal intentions, egoistic approaches, even all
02:02 these in the larger scheme of things are flowing towards the one great end but you as a person
02:23 are limited and your time, your lifespan is small.
02:36 So in your interest you must take the simplest and shortest route.
02:47 The route deserves no consideration on its own.
03:02 The target has to be kept in mind and whatever route takes to the target has to be blindly
03:12 chosen.
03:16 Instead we are captivated by the routes.
03:24 Entertainment is one such route.
03:25 What are the other things he has written?
03:33 All that is in the same thing.
03:48 Entertainment, comforts, dreams, desires.
03:54 You have to go to let's say Mumbai from Delhi but the road is quite bad.
04:14 The road to Calcutta is an 8 lane expressway, 16 lane expressway.
04:27 Would you take the expressway?
04:30 But that's how most of us operate.
04:37 So you have to ask yourself how wise it is.
04:45 Entertainment is some kind of food to the mind.
04:54 It stimulates the mind in a way.
05:03 But stimulates towards what?
05:06 What do you want out of it?
05:07 Just stimulation?
05:10 You just want to rev the car engine, just stimulate it or must it reach somewhere?
05:17 What's the car for?
05:18 Just want to race the engine?
05:26 Entertainment is a certain excitement in the engine called mind.
05:33 Fine, you have excited it.
05:35 But now where must it reach?
05:37 So even entertainment must have a certain goal and you have to assess what entertainment
05:44 is doing to you.
05:45 Where is it taking you?
05:50 If your entertainment brings you closer to the truth, entertainment is wonderful.
05:59 And if truth is to be approached more easily by enduring entertainment, so be it.
06:16 It's not entertainment or the lack of it that matters.
06:20 What matters is what are these things doing to you.
06:26 You two are the target.
06:29 Your welfare which lies in your reduction is the target.
06:34 If the kind of entertainment you are choosing reduces you, go for it.
06:39 If the kind of entertainment you are choosing just greases you, bad, very bad.
06:52 You are wasting your time.
06:53 That's what is bad.
06:55 I'm not saying bad on some moral account or something.
06:58 I said we are finite creatures of limited lifespan.
07:05 That's what decides what is good and bad for us.
07:07 That which wastes your time is bad.
07:11 And time is meant to reach the timeless.
07:16 Time is meant to reach the timeless.
07:18 That which took away your time without taking you any closer to the timeless is bad.
07:25 If there is something in your life that eats away your time without bringing you closer
07:32 to the timeless, that's bad.
07:38 Another corollary, you know what good is.
07:44 Great utilization of your time is good.
07:47 And what's great utilization of your time?
07:50 Spend time in a way that destroys your bondages, exposes your falsenesses, rids you of illusions.
08:10 That's what is good.
08:38 The next time you are busy in your imaginations or entertainment, ask yourself what's going
08:52 on.
08:53 There is a pleasure in getting lost in imagination.
08:59 There is a higher pleasure in remaining attentive to imagination.
09:10 There is a pleasure in remaining asleep when the thief is breaking into your house.
09:25 The thief is breaking in and you are happily asleep.
09:32 There is pleasure there.
09:36 And there is a higher pleasure in catching the thief red-handed.
09:41 Which pleasure do you want to choose?
09:46 I do not deny that there is pleasure in snoring on even as the thief is using his skill on
10:05 your walls and then on your lockers.
10:15 You are so blissfully lost in dreams, this pleasure.
10:22 But compare this with the pleasure that lies in nabbing the thief.
10:33 Holding him by the scruff of his neck.
10:49 Ask yourself how do you want to remember yourself?
10:56 As the one who kept sleeping when he was being robbed or as the one who caught the most wanted
11:06 thief.
11:10 So choose your pleasures wisely.
11:14 Spirituality is not against pleasure.
11:16 Rather it is for higher pleasures.
11:22 Go for pleasure but go for higher pleasure.
11:26 Choose your pleasures as we said wisely.
11:34 Remain attentive.
11:35 God Bless.