Discipline || Acharya Prashant
Transcript
00:00 What is discipline? Discipline in the real sense means challenging your own patterns.
00:04 Related to the word disciple. Who is a disciple? Someone who follows. Who is to be followed?
00:09 Someone who is worthy of being followed. Truth is to be followed. Freedom is to be followed. So,
00:13 if you are a disciple with discipline, then you challenge your own patterns which are your
00:19 bondages because freedom beckons. So, you say, I am not going to tolerate my bondages. I will do
00:23 everything to challenge my own inner structures. That's discipline. Discipline is not about
00:28 obedience. Discipline is not about obeying commandments from outside. Discipline is first
00:33 of all realizing who you are, what is it that you have fallen in love with, what really calls you,
00:39 and therefore what is it within that you must conquer. So, you will have obedient youngsters
00:44 and you will have disobedient youngsters, but never disciplined ones. To be disciplined is
00:49 a very different thing. Discipline and love go together and only love can induce discipline in
00:55 you. Obedience can come from fear.