Immersion in Right Action   Acharya Prashant - video Dailymotion

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

Transcript

00:00There is a subtle pleasure in worrying.

00:03The opposite of this self-centered worry is immersion in action.

00:09Immerse yourself in the right action, and then where is the space and the time to worry?

00:14Surely you are stealing time away from work so that you can indulge in worries and anxieties

00:21and fancies of all kinds.

00:23If the future, as per your imagination, is really threatening to be terrible, then that's

00:29all the more incentive for you to immerse yourself in the right action right now.

00:36Or would you squat and brood?

00:37Four hours, they are coming.

00:39You know what they'll do?

00:40They'll rape.

00:41They'll plunder.

00:42They are coming.

00:43Is that what you'll do?

00:44If the threat is indeed real, then work.

00:45And if the threat is not real, then slap yourself and find some work.

00:49What's the point in getting trapped in circular thought?