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Video Information: 16.02.23, International Psychology Summit Conference
Context:
~ How to deal with emotionality?
~ How to be free from emotions?
~ How to be free?
~ How to break our comfort zone?
~ What gives power to change life?
~ What is love?
~ Who dare to take risk in life?
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Video Information: 16.02.23, International Psychology Summit Conference
Context:
~ How to deal with emotionality?
~ How to be free from emotions?
~ How to be free?
~ How to break our comfort zone?
~ What gives power to change life?
~ What is love?
~ Who dare to take risk in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:39Namaskar Acharyaji
00:42and you talked of Mukti
00:45so I would like to know is it a Mukti from
00:48life and birth or
00:51I mean more if you can elaborate
00:54Mukti from internal compulsions
00:57the goal of life can be
01:00talked of as
01:03Mukti which is liberation which is also
01:06called freedom
01:09so if freedom is the goal of life
01:12surely we are presupposing
01:15bondage right without bondage there can be
01:18no question of freedom, liberation, Mukti
01:21so that's what the freedom
01:24is from
01:27all kinds of compulsions
01:30yeah but that is again a superficial
01:33way of Mukti the deeper
01:36level as you say
01:39or where we read that
01:42Mukti from
01:45to be desireless, to be detached
01:48and finally like in
01:51it's mentioned in the scriptures
01:54I mean like
01:57you know
02:00through
02:06I mean how to express it I mean to be
02:09the final ultimate goal of every human
02:12being though we have been given birth is
02:15to free from the
02:18cycle of birth and rebirth and that is the
02:21ultimate, it is not
02:24it is not your next birth that troubles you
02:27it is the bondages that you
02:30experience in this birth
02:33let the mic be there she is communicating
02:36it is the bondages that you experience
02:39in this birth right here that's what
02:42troubles you who is experiencing
02:45troubles related to the next birth please tell me
02:48and all of us indeed
02:51do have troubles what are
02:54your troubles about
02:57here this so that's the compulsion we
03:00carry
03:03to entertain troubles to not to drop
03:06them
03:09to think that we are
03:12helpless in the matter of troubles
03:15that's what liberation is
03:18liberation is not about the previous birth or the next
03:21birth liberation is
03:24freedom from the bondages that you experience
03:27right now and the
03:30experiencer of the
03:33bondage is
03:36herself the bondage
03:39there is no objective bondage
03:42the one who experiences bondages
03:45is herself in illusion
03:48so you could also put it as
03:53freedom from illusion or ignorance
03:56we do not know who we are
03:59therefore we feel obliged to
04:02keep suffering trouble
04:06once you put on
04:09some random dubious
04:13fake identity you'll have to do everything
04:16that the identity demands of you
04:19none of these identities is real
04:22and therefore the compulsions
04:25attached to those identities are not
04:28obligatory that's liberation
04:31Desire
04:39when it finishes
04:42nothing will be left
04:45how is life with desires
04:48yeah
04:51you are asking how would be life
04:54without desires
04:57that's too much of speculation
05:00shouldn't the question be how is life with desires
05:03how is life with desires
05:06and when you see that
05:09what so ever is the alternative
05:12is acceptable
05:15anything but this
05:18also a state
05:21of desirousness is a state
05:24of ignorance we do not know
05:27who we are therefore we desire for the wrong
05:30entity
05:33see our desires never fulfill us what does that mean
05:36that means our desires are
05:39for somebody else
05:42metaphorically put
05:45you are doing something that does not fulfill you
05:48so surely the fruits of your action are benefiting
05:51somebody else they are not benefiting you
05:54so you
05:57so you
06:00do not want to rush after
06:03these desires
06:06you say fine fine fine stop these
06:09and I am in a state of ignorance
06:12when I am desirous
06:15in this state of ignorance if I try to speculate
06:18how life would be without
06:21desire what would be the quality of my speculation
06:27I am drunk let's say
06:30I am drunk
06:33I am drunk
06:36in this state I cannot make head or tail of anything
06:39correct
06:42and you come to me and preach the
06:45virtues of abstinence you say don't drink
06:48and in my drunken state I say
06:51but I want to understand what would be the benefits
06:54of not drinking what is the problem
06:57with this question
07:00what is the problem with this question
07:03it comes from a drunken state
07:06in a drunken state
07:09I am asking what would be the benefits I will get
07:12if I do not drink
07:15you will know but please get sober
07:18so in a desirous state
07:21I ask what would be the benefits
07:24of dropping desire
07:27no answer would be relevant
07:33how do we navigate through what
07:45basically
07:48I will expand it on your example
07:51I am drunk and instead of asking
07:54what are the benefits of not drinking
07:57I am asking how do I navigate it
08:00you just stumbled
08:03that's how you navigate
08:06you are drunk so what happens to you
08:09what happens to you when you are drunk
08:12and then you
08:15and you
08:18and you bleed
08:21look at your knee that's how you navigate
08:24look at your pain acknowledge your suffering
08:27so like suffering is
08:30like you said fulfilling life
08:33but if suffering is fulfilling
08:36acknowledge don't inflict
08:39there is a difference between creating suffering
08:42and acknowledging that you are already
08:45suffering
08:48and that's
08:51hard right and that's the reason most people
08:54prefer to rather live
08:57false lives because if they acknowledge their
09:00real state it pains
09:03it's like being
09:06out of sedation
09:09when you are sedated you don't feel pain
09:12or when you are anesthetized you don't feel pain
09:15so people choose to remain on sedation
09:18on tranquilizers on such things
09:21so if I acknowledge the pain
09:24what do I do then
09:27then there is a natural thing within you
09:30that seeks joy
09:34we are not born to live in pain
09:37our nature is joy
09:40and that's the reason why we all rush
09:43towards that poor proxy called happiness
09:46because happiness to an extent
09:49seems like joy
09:52in both joy and happiness
09:55there is an absence of sorrow
09:58so we rush towards happiness because it
10:01appears a bit like joy though happiness is not at all joy
10:04happiness is just
10:07a shady cousin of sorrow
10:10but we rush towards it because it looks like joy
10:13so your nature is joy the moment you acknowledge pain
10:16you will find yourself dropping it
10:19and
10:22in that lies your freedom
10:25in that lies the power of choice
10:28you can drop your pain
10:31and pain is not compulsory
10:34you are not
10:37mandated to live a life of suffering
10:40if you suffer
10:43that's a choice you have inflicted on yourself
10:46and you can reverse that choice
10:49we
10:52all have the liberty
10:55rather an internal obligation
10:58to bring ourselves
11:01to a joyous state
11:04a state of complete bloom
11:07that's what we are born for right
11:10you look at a flower
11:13how do you feel about a flower
11:16that remained a bird or got nipped in the bird
11:19or flowered but incompletely
11:22you want it to bloom fully
11:25that's what is the purpose of life
11:28full bloom
11:31and it's therefore quite tragic
11:34if we pass away
11:37without expressing ourselves
11:40blooming fully
11:43actually living, reaching your utmost potential
11:46dropping your last
11:49bondages
11:52I have another question
11:55I am really sorry about this
11:58it's ok
12:01it's related to this
12:04we were talking about desires
12:07we should live without desires
12:10my desire can be
12:13I want to be the most excellent person
12:16the best person in this field
12:19it is a desire
12:22it contradicts it
12:25my life won't have any meaning without it
12:28dropping desire is not the objective
12:31when you are an unfulfilled person
12:34to begin with
12:37how can you not have desire
12:40the thing is to have a sane desire
12:43my desire should be for a doctor
12:46not a dancer
12:49not a joker
12:52desire the right thing
12:55and have
12:58an intense desire for the right thing
13:01wisdom is not about
13:04being desireless in the first go itself
13:07we all rather need desire
13:10but we need desire
13:13that proves good
13:16that's of some utility
13:19if your desire ends up troubling you all the more
13:22what good is the desire
13:25you can be a slave to the desire
13:28if it's the right desire
13:31in fact you must be a slave to the right desire
13:34desire rightly and immerse yourself totally in your desire
13:37give yourself up, surrender
13:40sir my question is how we control our emotions
13:43in a difficult situation
13:46and we maintain our life peacefully
13:49ma'am mostly our emotions are not our own
13:52they are so pattern based
13:55so pattern based
13:58if you just recall what made you angry the last time
14:01just the recall will make you angry again
14:07just try to
14:10recall what embarrassed you the last time
14:13just the recall will embarrass you again
14:16there is
14:19there is nothing but a pattern
14:22so they are not your emotions
14:25it's like having a button that somebody
14:28anybody randomly can come and just push
14:31is there any spiritual practice
14:34spiritual practice to control our emotions
14:37just tell yourself that's not me
14:40that's not my emotion
14:43address yourself
14:46I need your suggestion actually
14:49address yourself not as I
14:52but as let's say Manju
14:55what's your name please
14:58my name is Shoma Lahiri Malik
15:01address yourself by your name and say
15:04Shoma you are at it again, it's happening again
15:07and it's not you, it's automatic
15:10let it happen, you don't need to participate
15:13you don't need to
15:16participate, let it happen
15:19you don't need to be a part of it
15:22if it's prakritic, if it's hormonal
15:25if it's bodily it will happen, what can I do
15:28it's bound to happen, it's a part of my physical constitution
15:31but I need not participate
15:34in the happening
15:37I'll stay at an arm's length and just see what is happening
15:40sometimes other stimulus
15:43are disturbed us
15:46outside stimulus
15:49there is disturbance but not to you
15:52and in this situation how we control our emotion
15:55it is also my question
16:07how can it be difficult to
16:10to see that it's
16:13all so mechanical
16:16there is a word that you despise
16:19there is a word that you despise, let's say
16:22for being called ugly
16:25after the 10th time
16:28I am called ugly
16:31I should become impervious to the word ugly
16:34I should become totally
16:37non-reactive, indifferent
16:40because now I know what's happening
16:43ugly, thank you
16:46I have seen how the whole thing
16:49operates like an electric circuit
16:52there is the switch
16:57this is so obvious and so foolhardy
17:00how long can I participate in this
17:03after a point one just drops out and says
17:06I don't see any point being a part of all this
17:09in fact if you want to
17:12play a game with yourself
17:15predict yourself
17:18for example you know somebody
17:21you are totally
17:24mad on
17:27is going to come to you
17:30and you are already steaming hot
17:33very angry
17:36and now the doorbell rings and you tell yourself
17:39now you know what will happen, I will open the gate and shout
17:42predict yourself
17:45the more you see how predictable you are
17:48the more you see how mechanical you are
17:51because only machines can be predicted, only machines can be programmed
17:54if you can predict your behavior, your reactions
17:57in advance then you know that you are just
18:00a lump of chemicals, hormones
18:03circuits and that's not
18:06what consciousness is, consciousness is supposed to be
18:09free, right?
18:12circuit is not free, chemical reactions are not free
18:15sodium and potassium
18:18cannot decide whether to react with water
18:21they are constrained to react
18:24do you want to be just
18:27a chemical, a chemical that is
18:30obliged to act in certain ways, there is freedom
18:33then
18:36predict yourself
18:39predict yourself and then defy the prediction
18:42so I was supposed to be angry
18:45I didn't get angry
18:481 0
18:51self 1, hormones
18:540, so keep the score
19:03so the hormones are imbalanced, I am not imbalanced
19:09I am not my body
19:12so how can I be the hormones