Fantasy and Virtual Reality || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Reducing overthinking and anxiety || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2020)

Transcript

00:00Young people fantasize, don't they? Some fantasize about beautiful, pretty, exciting things.

00:05Others fantasize of scary demons. But fundamentally, it's much the same thing, is it not?

00:10On one screen, you have a man and a woman doing things to each other's bodies.

00:14On the other screen, you have the demon doing things to somebody's body.

00:18The objective is entertainment.

00:20The objective is to move into a virtual, unreal world and titillate yourself.

00:26That's what imagination of all kinds, that's the purpose they all serve.

00:31They take you away from the fact of your life.

00:35The opposite of this self-centered worry is immersion in action.

00:41Immerse yourself in the right action and then where is the space and the time to worry?

00:46Surely, you are stealing time away from work,

00:49so that you can indulge in worries and anxieties and fancies of all kinds.