Train of Life || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: Eternal Self and the Nature of Existence || Acharya Prashant (2024)
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00:00Think of a train for example that runs from Jammu till Kanyakumari over a period of two full days.
00:07Think of those who board the train at Jammu. How many of them reach Kanyakumari, no?
00:12But the train does. People hop in, people hop out. The train keeps moving.
00:17And at all points, the train remains either fully or reasonably occupied.
00:23That's life. And when the train arrives, you do not say the passengers have arrived. You say
00:28the train has arrived. It's the train that counts. If you are unattached to the train,
00:33you will say the train has arrived. But if papa is arriving, you'll say oh papa has arrived.
00:40The moment there is attachment, you start thinking in terms of persons rather than life itself.
00:49And that amounts to suffering. It's not at all difficult to see that the train has arrived,
00:57or is it?