My early morning routine || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)
Video Information: 17.03.23, Delhi University (Online), Greater Noida
Context:
How do I start a 5am routine?
What are the 10 good habits at morning?
What is the healthiest morning routine?
How do I spend my morning?
How do I start a daily routine?
How do I start my day?
“Morning” Routine Tips for Students
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
How do I start a 5am routine?
What are the 10 good habits at morning?
What is the healthiest morning routine?
How do I spend my morning?
How do I start a daily routine?
How do I start my day?
“Morning” Routine Tips for Students
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00 Good evening sir, my name is Malvika, my question is that we have seen many celebrities talk
00:08 about their morning routines as the key solution to their achievements.
00:15 So according to you what is the perfect daily routine for everyone?
00:29 I have never had a set routine so I am not the right person to ask this one too.
00:36 But I wake up and I stretch my hand to my workstation which is my phone and that's the
00:52 routine that sets it.
00:56 The ball is rolling now and I don't realize when the day ends, I have very little idea.
01:04 Routine, you know when you are on the battlefield, they say that all your plans are only till
01:19 when the first bullet is fired.
01:24 Before the battle begins, obviously you draw very meticulous plans on both sides.
01:32 The generals on the two sides are sitting and saying this is my strategy, we will do
01:35 this, we will do this, attack from here.
01:39 But the moment the first shell is fired, all the plans are gone.
01:50 Then it's just your sincerity towards your cause that takes you home.
01:59 So that's how it has been in my case.
02:10 If there is work to do, how do I say that my routine necessitates going to bed at 11
02:17 am, but there is work to do and work is still not finished.
02:22 So I will have to stay awake till 2 am or 3 am and that's what, two hoots to the routine.
02:30 What can I do with the routine?
02:32 That's a bad advice, don't take it because it's a difficult one to bear and it really
02:41 requires a bull's body to take and live this advice because this kind of a thing is actually
02:53 harsh on the physical system.
02:58 When you commit yourself fully to something worthwhile in life, then you have to disregard
03:06 your body quite often and sometimes in a big way and in course of time it will take its
03:15 toll not to be denied.
03:23 So it depends on the depth of your love.
03:32 A successful life in some sense is about dancing to somebody else's tunes.
03:40 Whose tunes?
03:43 Something bigger than yourself.
03:49 Something bigger than yourself and then you don't care for your own preferences, your
03:55 own likes, dislikes, routines or food habits or this and that.
04:17 I don't think I'll ever have the luxury of waking up at a particular time.
04:25 I live in a kind of a community environment, people keep barging into my room all the time
04:33 and that wakes me up.
04:34 What do I do?
04:37 There is never a lock here in this campus on any room.
04:44 So not even on my room, people are free to walk in any time as they please and they exercise
04:51 their right with all their gust.
04:59 There are times when I am so tired in the night that I just don't have the energy to
05:08 pull down the curtains.
05:13 So it's 4 am and you are exhausted, you just want to crash and the windows are all open.
05:22 What's the result?
05:25 The result is that at 6 am you are again woken up by the sunlight and that's how it happens.
05:40 No regrets.
05:46 That might be a short-lived way but it's a beautiful way to surrender your routine to
05:58 your cause.
05:59 When you have an exam tomorrow, do you say that this is my time to sleep or this is when
06:23 I watch my favorite TV show?
06:26 You say all that.
06:27 The routine goes for a toss.
06:28 What routine?
06:29 There is an exam tomorrow.
06:32 So give yourself a life in which there is an exam every day.
06:42 Then you live very tightly, there is no slack.
06:45 Then there is an automatic discipline, a discipline beyond an imposed routine.
06:53 Because a routine definitely makes space for leisure etc. as well.
06:58 When you say routine, that means these are the hours when I will study, these are the
07:02 hours when I will do this, do that and these are the hours when I will have my spare time
07:06 for my leisure etc.
07:09 So a routine is some kind of a luxury.
07:13 You require a discipline beyond a routine.
07:15 You commit yourself totally.
07:19 There is that song, "Mainu Ishak Nachaya, Tada Thaiya Thaiya".
07:23 You are dancing to somebody's tune and the master is not you, the master is beyond you.
07:32 Funny?
07:35 It should be.
07:44 It's actually quite funny.
07:45 Hello sir, good evening.
07:52 My name is Suhail.
07:53 My question to you is that youngsters nowadays are very cautious about their diet, their
08:01 health.
08:02 They try to live a good lifestyle.
08:06 So they try to wake up early.
08:08 First thing they do is yoga or meditate.
08:11 They try to follow a good diet etc.
08:14 Yet at the end of the day, they complain about not being enough, feeling empty, feeling incomplete.
08:20 Why do you suppose this happens?
08:25 Because you are not born to just have a great lifestyle.
08:34 You are born for a purpose and we have already spoken of the purpose.
08:39 The purpose is freedom from your pre-existing bondages.
08:47 This happens in Tihar.
08:50 They arrange yoga for the inmates.
08:54 Does that liberate them?
08:58 Yoga classes are arranged for all the prisoners.
09:02 That makes them more peaceful prisoners.
09:09 Unfortunately that's what a lot of yoga and meditation has become.
09:15 You remain inside your prison and keep meditating.
09:23 What else can you anyway do?
09:25 You have been served a life sentence.
09:29 You have gotten into something you cannot get out of your entire life.
09:34 So meditate.
09:38 That will keep you peaceful till you pass away.
09:46 Meditation then becomes an obligation.
09:57 Real meditation is revolution.
10:03 If you are really meditative, you will rise and blow yourself up like a suicide bomber.
10:17 That's what real meditativeness is.
10:20 If you do not want to challenge your fundamental problems, instead you want to keep giving
10:26 yourself superficial treatments.
10:31 I have only salad for dinner.
10:33 How will that help?
10:37 How will that help?
10:39 The fellow takes only salad at night.
10:41 How will that help?
10:44 It's all within the cage.
10:49 Nice salad, Greek salad, served in the cage.
10:59 How will that help?
11:03 Very fit chap he is, extremely fit.
11:06 And the face glows.
11:09 All the fitness within the cage.
11:15 Push ups and pull ups, leg press and chest press, everything, come on, come on, within
11:24 the cage.
11:25 Duly sanctioned by the jailer.
11:31 How will that help?
11:32 The hollowness will remain.
11:43 But that's the unfortunate ideal of this age.
11:47 A very destructive, very pathetic ideal.
11:52 Even spirituality has become so body-centric.
11:55 All the spiritual teachers are talking about great diets and this and that and superfoods.
12:04 What does self-knowledge have to do with superfoods?
12:12 All that is just a trick to keep you confined and satisfied.
12:18 In the cage, in the cage.
12:23 Think of the parrot in the cage.
12:25 You don't want to let the parrot die.
12:28 So you keep serving the parrot nice things.
12:32 And sometimes you can even bring it a golden cage.
12:36 The parrot is very happy.
12:38 See look at all the gold that I have.
12:41 I even eat gold.
12:59 And I say Ram Ram in the cage.
13:05 If you really loved Ram, would you continue to live in the cage?
13:13 And what is this mithu bolo Ram Ram in the cage?
13:19 What is all this spirituality and meditation and yoga?
13:22 If it is not making you rebel in the loudest way possible, in the most authentic way possible,
13:34 then you are not a human being.
13:49 Hello sir.
13:50 Sir, my question, you were talking about the cage.
13:55 So what came to me was this cage is of my tendencies and the things that just arise
14:03 in me without me knowing.
14:05 Did I get it right?
14:12 The nature of the self is freedom.
14:19 When you value something more than freedom, then you give up on the freedom to accept
14:27 that thing around you.
14:31 Please understand the nature of the cage.
14:33 What is a cage?
14:35 Something around you.
14:37 Something you are there and there is something around you.
14:42 That's called a cage.
14:45 That thing is around you because you have accepted it, allowed it to be around you.
14:53 Basically you have said, I am trading away my freedom for this thing.
14:59 Because if you want to retain your freedom, then you cannot have the cage.
15:06 If you retain your freedom, can you have the cage?
15:09 So it's a deal.
15:12 You have bartered away your freedom for something else.
15:19 Whatever it is you have bartered away your freedom for, that's called a cage.
15:28 So for example, I am prepared to compromise on my freedom for the sake of your love.
15:35 That's a cage.
15:37 Anything that takes away your freedom is called a cage.
15:40 That's the definition of a cage.
15:43 A cage will not always look like a cage.
15:46 When a bird is confined, it is obvious to see that there is a tangible material, metallic cage.
16:00 The cages that we are confined in are not so tangible.
16:05 So how do you detect whether you are caged?
16:10 See what is it around you that exists at the cost of your freedom?
16:17 See what is it around you that exists at the cost of your, whatsoever exists within or
16:25 around you at the cost of your freedom is called a cage.
16:29 And it will include that barter that one does to get, there is a thought that wraps one
16:39 around.
16:40 So that is also at the cost of my freedom.
16:43 Even thought can aspire to be free.
16:50 It is no mean thing to be a free thinker.
16:54 Thought can obviously never be absolutely free.
16:57 Thought always has the thinker at the center.
16:59 So absolute freedom of thought is impossible.
17:04 But even relatively, it is not a small thing to try to think freely.
17:11 Even that freedom we barter for something else.
17:17 Most people do not think freely because they cannot afford to think freely.
17:20 If they think freely, they will be losing out on a lot of their conveniences.
17:28 So they just don't think freely.
17:31 They pause their minds at a certain place.
17:36 Beyond that they dare not go.
17:38 Even in their thoughts, they do not dare to transgress certain limits.
17:50 This is what I have noticed in myself as well because once my securities are at stake, then
17:57 I stop my freedom of thought at that point.
18:01 So that is what happens.
18:03 Acharya ji, one more thing.
18:06 You were talking about authenticity.
18:09 Just before you were talking about being authentic.
18:13 So either this me, this comes either from the body or the social conditioning that I
18:23 have around me.
18:25 So what I can see is there is just artificiality and there is no authenticity.
18:35 So how can one inculcate this authenticity because it was a very attractive word for
18:47 me, being authentic.
18:50 Because I find myself being very artificial at times and that gives me suffering.
18:56 So how can one inculcate this?
19:00 No, you don't have to inculcate authenticity.
19:03 Authenticity is your nature.
19:05 You just have to figure out what is it that you are considering more important than authenticity.
19:14 Once you see that there is something that you consider more important than authenticity,
19:19 you will want to investigate its true value.
19:23 Here this is it, something, let's say attachment, that I am considering very very important,
19:29 even more important than authenticity, that is truth.
19:33 So you go close to it and figure out whether attachment is really worth all that value.
19:39 Whether attachment is really worth all that value.
19:42 When you investigate, you find it does not have that kind of value.
19:48 When attachment drops, authenticity shines.
19:52 Authenticity is not something you have to gain from somewhere.
19:55 It's just that we start valuing other things a lot.
20:00 The other things that you are valuing, you must figure out whether they are really worth
20:03 it.
20:04 But, I am sorry, but I was not able to understand this with attachment per se.
20:19 Something, anything.
20:20 There is authenticity that you are claiming to respect and value.
20:24 At the same time you are saying you don't have enough of it and you want to obtain it.
20:28 Which basically means there is something else that you are valuing more than authenticity.
20:33 Something, I don't know what.
20:35 You figure out.
20:36 So that other thing, let's call it A, that you are valuing so much.
20:42 I am saying, look at it, find out whether it really makes sense to give it so much of
20:49 value.
20:50 Usually it is just the pleasures that I tend to give value.
20:58 Thank you.
21:03 Thanks a lot sir for sharing your valuable strategies, your wisdom over all the years
21:06 that you have worked and understood about life.
21:09 We really appreciate you on behalf of Enactus Shyamlal College Evening for coming and sharing
21:14 all the things that you did today.
21:17 The thing that we are doing right now is a project called Kissa by Enactus Shyamlal College
21:22 Evening.
21:23 So what it does is, it shares the stories and untold stories of people and also from
21:29 people who are really successful at what they do, their views and their opinions.
21:33 So this is the project that we have started and it was really nice having you.
21:39 Apart from this, I am really a huge fan of you.
21:41 Not only just what you share but of your brutal honesty.
21:44 That's why I also came here to learn and understand about what life is.
21:50 The things that people asked are really important questions because we don't get all these answers
21:56 everywhere.
21:57 We get them on the internet but we don't get an in-depth answer for them.
22:01 So thanks a lot for coming and sharing all the things that you did.
22:04 We really appreciate the time that you did for us.
22:06 Thanks a lot.
22:07 Thank you.
22:08 Thank you.
22:09 Thank you.
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