STOP Panicking! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: When things go bad, I start panicking || Acharya Prashant, at Mithibai College, Mumbai (2022)

Transcript

00:00I tend to panic. So how do I handle the situation or, you know, reduce my panic rate?

00:05What my desire is good, bad, great, ugly. Panicking only spoils the outcome.

00:12So if you are really serious about what you are targeting, what your desire is,

00:17you would not want to panic. You remember class 8th final exam?

00:20Remember how serious some of you were? How many of you were very serious that day?

00:24How many of you sweated and felt anxious and a lot?

00:28Now, how do you feel when you look back at all that anxiety? An emotion arises.

00:34You support it. Therefore, it becomes all the more dominant.

00:37Be it anger, be it jealousy, be it fear, be it lust. And the same thing applies to panic.

00:42Don't choose to support panic. Panic will not get on top of you.

00:46And that's a practical thing. Panic is not useful. Therefore, I am not supporting panic.

00:51Today you laugh at that 12 year old. Tomorrow you'll be laughing at this 20 year old.