Solution to Overthinking || Acharya Prashant (2024)

Acharya Prashant

~~~~~  Video Information: 08.12.2022, Sir J.J. College, Mumbai   Context: ~ How do I stop overthinking?  ~ How to deal with anxiety and fear?  ~ Why do we keep thinking of little things?  ~ How to stay away from trivia in life? ~ What is important to do in life?  ~ How to not be bothered by every little thing?  ~ What is worth doing?  ~ How to not waste my life?   Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~  #acharyaprashant #time #timemanagement #motivation #rightwork #overthinking #anxiety #depression #fear

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00:00 Nobody will ever have enough money.

00:06 Nobody will ever be able to say I do not need more clothes or better clothes.

00:12 Nobody will ever say all my desires are now satisfied.

00:17 That's not going to happen.

00:20 Nobody will ever say the situations are all perfect.

00:30 Those things will continuously remain.

00:32 As a young person you need to figure out very clearly what is worth doing.

00:40 What is important in life.

00:42 Else you are travelling to the college and you are looking out of the bus window and

00:52 you see something happening, something by chance, the usual trivia and it will capture

01:00 you and you will find yourself thinking about it 30 minutes.

01:06 30 minutes of life gone on nothing.

01:13 And that's how most of us simply waste away our entire life on nothing in particular.

01:25 So what did you do your entire life?

01:28 Nothing in particular.

01:29 Though I was always occupied.

01:32 I was always occupied.

01:35 But what did you do?

01:37 Nothing in particular.

01:38 Okay, let's say you get a one week break.

01:43 Diwali break, 10 days break.

01:49 And somebody asks you what did you do actually?

01:52 Is that not an honest answer?

01:57 Nothing in particular.

02:00 And that's what happens when you have nothing really important to do.

02:03 You do nothing.

02:06 At least nothing in particular.

02:11 And it's unimaginable the lengths of time that you can simply squander doing nothing

02:21 in particular.

02:22 Two months summer holidays spent doing nothing in particular.

02:29 Nothing in particular.

02:33 My driver, I make it a point, he drives slowly so that sitting on the rear seat I do not

02:46 get disturbed.

02:47 Why?

02:48 Because commutes take long, one hour, two hour and I want to read.

02:57 That's a dedicated time I get to complete my reading list.

03:04 Else it's very possible to simply say I was travelling so I was doing nothing in particular.

03:13 And it's not that you are doing nothing at all when you are travelling.

03:16 You are doing something.

03:17 What are you doing?

03:19 Staring out of the window, looking at something random, in between you just scroll through

03:28 the feed, Facebook or something, type something random on Instagram, ogle at some nice faces

03:40 passing by.

03:41 You don't know their name.

03:45 The fellow will be in visual range for 2.2 seconds and yet the fellow becomes so important.

03:55 Two seconds you stare and then for two minutes you think.

04:06 By the time the next pretty face comes, you have already forgotten the previous one.

04:17 And the world can be an unending succession of pretty faces.

04:24 Two hours will fly away.

04:31 You did your entire journey doing nothing in particular.

04:39 The name of the journey is life.

04:42 Now death has arrived and death asks, so tell me, how was it?

04:58 What did you do?

05:02 Nothing in particular.

05:10 Though I was always busy.

05:17 You never find anyone saying, so much time, kindly assign me some task.

05:25 I have found somebody begging for work.

05:31 Everybody is running behind on schedule, right?

05:35 If you happen to have a to-do list at all of any kind, you are always behind the list.

05:45 Are you not?

05:48 So everybody is occupied doing nothing in particular.

05:54 Have one thing worth living for.

05:59 You will forget when you board the bus.

06:03 You will forget when the destination has arrived.

06:07 Somebody will have to prod you to get down.

06:16 You will be so immersed.

06:17 That's a beautiful word, no?

06:21 Immersion.

06:22 How do you like it?

06:23 Immersion.

06:24 How about that?

06:25 Does that word appeal to you?

06:30 Immersion?

06:31 Have you experienced that sometimes?

06:37 Immersion?

06:40 That alone is the way to live.

06:42 If you are not immersed, you are scattered.

06:50 How does it feel to be scattered?

06:51 Have you experienced that?

06:53 A state of being scattered inwardly?

06:57 Have you?

06:58 Have you?

06:59 Isn't immersion beautiful?

07:03 Have you seen how time stops when you are immersed?

07:11 And if you can have immersion in your everyday life, that alone is the best meditation.

07:23 Are you getting it?

07:27 And if you can have that immersion, that is an antidote to all kinds of mental troubles.

07:37 Otherwise there is the menace of depression, anxiety and all kinds of mental things, especially

07:45 among the young.

07:55 The one who has something to live for will never be mentally sick.

08:07 And mental illness is a pointer that life is devoid of essence.

08:23 I have no time to be anxious.

08:25 How about that?

08:28 Are you suffering from anxiety?

08:31 What's the answer?

08:33 I have no time to be anxious.

08:35 Even anxiety requires time.

08:38 I don't have time.

08:39 How can I be anxious?

08:40 Are you afraid?

08:41 I have no space for fear.

08:46 When fear comes, I say, sorry, no vacancy.

08:50 Not that you aren't great.

08:53 Only you are great and powerful.

08:55 The entire world kneels to you.

08:57 You're wonderful.

08:59 But as far as I'm concerned, no vacancy.

09:05 Give all your inner space to something that is beautiful for you.

09:14 Let there be no vacancy.

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