Loneliness || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Loneliness is a gift || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)

Transcript

00:00Loneliness, you know, is the best gift that life can offer you. Seriously.

00:04If you are not lonely, then the alternative is to be with something terrible.

00:11What would you prefer?

00:12Let's say you are travelling by bus or you are in a flight.

00:15The seat next to you is occupied by a hideous person.

00:19Is that better or is it better to have a vacant seat?

00:22Is it better to have a vacant seat? Please.

00:24I am not saying that the seat remain vacant for the entire journey.

00:30But must you be in a hurry to very quickly fill that up?

00:34Must you be in a terrible rush? That's the thing.

00:37Most of us have such low tolerance for loneliness that we fill it up with crap.

00:43Either the wrong kind of job or beliefs or person or location or something.

00:50Loneliness I said is a gift because it gives you the opportunity and the freedom to go for the best.