Do you have something to die for? || Acharya Prashant (2023)

Acharya Prashant

‍♂️ Want to meet Acharya Prashant? Be a part of the Live Sessions: https://acharyaprashant.org/hi/enquir...  ⚡ Want Acharya Prashant’s regular updates? Join WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va6Z...   Want to read Acharya Prashant's Books? Get Free Delivery: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/books?...   Want to accelerate Acharya Prashant’s work? Contribute: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/contri...   Want to work with Acharya Prashant? Apply to the Foundation here: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/hiring...  ~~~~~  Video Information: 16.02.23, International Psychology Summit Conference   Context: ~ How to deal with emotionality? ~ How to be free from emotions? ~ How to be free? ~ How to break our comfort zone? ~ What gives power to change life? ~ What is love? ~ Who dare to take risk in life?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

Transcript

00:00 I have only one question sir. How to identify the right thing to die for?

00:06 Because when you talk about purpose, life purpose, karma and all, for a youngster like me, it's like bouncing.

00:14 And I don't understand the purpose of life. I don't understand how to control my desires.

00:19 So I want to understand how to find out the right way to die for now.

00:23 So you love the body, which means one loves being alive, right?

00:30 We know that things are valuable. We all value the body. We all value the fact that we are alive.

00:39 And there are several other things that we value, right?

00:44 And there is a hierarchy of values always that determines that one thing can be sacrificed for the sake of other.

01:00 In that hierarchy, in that stack, usually physical existence is at the top.

01:10 Try seeing what comes close to that. That's what is worth dying for.

01:19 I value this, which also means loving this or desiring this. I value this.

01:29 I value this, this, this, this. And when it comes to choosing between this and this, what do I do?

01:36 I drop this. I drop this. Now can there be something so lovable that you can choose to drop even your body for that?

01:50 No, no need to come to quick conclusions. Just try to probe deeper into love.

02:00 What is the most appealing, most beautiful thing I can find to love?

02:07 And you don't need to ask, can I die for it? No, that will happen on its own when it has to.

02:17 Just keep augmenting the quality of your love. Don't settle for something ordinary, mediocre,

02:29 commonplace, traditional, petty. No. Love is the highest respect you can offer to anything.

02:39 So figure out the highest and fall in love with it. That highest obviously need not necessarily be a person.

02:51 It could be a person if it has to be or it could be anything, a cause, a mission.

03:00 See what is valuable and exceed it because there is something more important than that.

03:06 And keep rising, keep rising. It just happens that when you come upon the really lovable,

03:16 then body and all do not remain too much of a concern. You say fine, a little bit of compromise

03:24 can be made to begin with and then a day might come when you might say even the ultimate sacrifice is alright.

03:39 See, your question comes from a place where we just randomly decide to pursue things.

03:48 Why do you opt for a particular piece of garment? Because it is available in the market and

03:56 because it is trending. Right? You don't wear something that was in vogue 10 years back. Correct?

04:07 A particular course of study is hot these days. Too many people are opting for it.

04:12 So one decides to go for it. There is no love in our choices.

04:19 One comes to a certain age and society and religion and hormones decide that you need

04:27 a physical partner. So you marry. Where is love in this?

04:34 Having enrolled in a course of study, you graduate and you say, well, I need to look

04:41 after my bread and butter. So I'll take up a job. Where is love in that?

04:53 From the smallest thing like choosing your footwear to things like knowing what religion

05:06 means, what it means to call someone your partner, what it means to spend 8 or 10 hours

05:16 a day at a workplace. We don't base our decisions on love and therefore we do not

05:25 know what it means to die for something. Are you getting it?

05:36 It's just that to love you must have some sense of who you are.

05:51 Otherwise you'll have attractions and compulsions but not love.

05:57 Love is your highest tribute and also your best medicine.

06:06 Love is when you bow down in front of something very immense and love is also when you in

06:17 a moment of helplessness say, I need to be treated, I need some medicine.

06:23 That's what love is and love is both of these together at the same time, your tribute and

06:32 your treatment.

06:37 But we just let lives drift.

06:40 We are drifters, aren't we?

06:42 All of us.

06:43 Let's acknowledge that.

06:45 How much of love has there been in our life?

06:54 You love a baby.

06:56 That's because the baby is coming from your body.

07:00 Is that love?

07:02 Is that love?

07:03 No, it's a random occurrence.

07:06 It's a random and predictable occurrence.

07:12 Please think of what is happening.

07:15 We don't need to think of alternatives.

07:19 Is there love in the way we live?

07:22 We talk of the mother-child relationship as one of love.

07:27 What is that?

07:28 So predictable.

07:29 The lady will get pregnant and will give birth and will claim to be loving.

07:36 No, how is that love?

07:37 So predictable.

07:39 Can love be predictable?

07:43 Therefore we do not know what to die for.

07:47 Therefore everything is just a compromise.

07:53 A compromise in which the central desire is to somehow remain mentally and physically secure.

08:07 So the topmost priority is given to physical security and mental continuation.

08:17 Love is not accorded the respect, the place it deserves.

08:30 I know I'm not making sense and that's okay.

08:33 You hear sensible things all day.

08:36 So it's alright to not to be too sensible for a couple of hours.

08:44 So you said that love is a tribute and your medicine at the same time.

08:49 Can you give an example?

08:50 I'm finding it hard to imagine what you mean by that.

08:54 Like a fat man fascinated by a mountain.

09:01 So he climbs.

09:02 That's a tribute and a treatment.

09:13 So good evening.

09:15 I was listening to you.

09:17 I was also listening to the questions asked by the young girls or ladies.

09:22 I'm working with young adolescents since many years and I can see the change happening in

09:30 the society.

09:32 I also remember many times my childhood.

09:35 Like somewhere I felt or I experienced what you were talking.

09:42 The lower pleasures in comparison with higher pleasures and you were also giving them definition

09:48 or maybe the ideal friends definition.

09:52 The person who will take you from lower to higher is your true friend and that FOMO social

10:00 media maybe we call it as peer pressure.

10:05 So I just felt whatever you were saying to her was making sense.

10:14 We are able to understand it because of our own experiences as maybe aged adults.

10:24 So I feel when we look around ourselves, there is lot of like motivation from eccentric

10:38 to eccentric is happening.

10:39 Means like these children they are more into lower level of pleasures these days.

10:47 So you visit so many institutes, you interact, you face such kinds of questions from youngsters.

10:54 So I really want to ask you like if we want to work any means we want to bring that awareness

11:02 amongst youngsters on these lines.

11:06 So when we have to tap them means at what age, where we have to means at home, in institutes

11:14 or on social media, what we can do because many times I personally feel helpless.

11:23 It's a thing so important that you have to catch them wherever you can and as early as

11:28 you can.

11:30 So even eight years is not too early.

11:35 Eight years of age.

11:38 The fellow would be in class three probably at that age.

11:42 That's not too early.

11:45 And if he's on social media, catch him there.

11:49 If he's there on the playground, catch him there.

11:53 Classroom, catch him there.

11:54 Family, catch him there.

11:56 TV, cinema, books, wherever he is.

12:01 There's no option but to catch him there.

12:05 Increasingly he's on the mobile phone.

12:09 Catch him there.

12:12 Right.

12:14 Thank you.

12:16 So who will have very much impactful role?

12:20 Parents, teachers or people like us, the social change enthusiasts?

12:25 Whosoever has the burning desire to bring about a change.

12:32 So it could be a parent, it could be anybody, depends on the intensity of your love.

12:42 Do they convince?

12:44 Do they get convinced?

12:45 It's because you must be tackling, handling many questions from youngsters.

13:00 Why else would I exist as I do?

13:04 Yes.

13:05 Okay, thank you.

13:07 Gathering itself is a good evidence.

13:10 That still being hungry and everyone is here, so many are here still and we are not able

13:18 to wind up.

13:20 So that's an evidence.

13:23 On most complicated topics, Maya, Ishwar, purpose of life, Atma.

13:38 When we publish a video, we get views in lakhs and those videos are one and a half, two hours

13:45 long videos and we talk of attention deficit.

13:50 And most of the viewer base is very young, very young and they are watching these videos

14:00 that are movie length videos.

14:04 So they are human beings first and like any human being ever born, they have this urge

14:14 to know.

14:17 It's just that you too should have the urge to deliver.

14:22 They'll receive.

14:23 They'll receive, don't worry.

14:26 Yes.

14:27 [Music]

14:28 Yes.

14:29 [Music]

14:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]

Category

Transcript

Recommended