Full Video: Exactly who is happy here? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2021)
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00:00Nobody is happy here. Please just scratch the surface and you will find what do you think those Facebook faces are real?
00:08Why do you think people have to display their teeth so much if one is really happy? It's an internal confirmation
00:13You don't have to seek validity from everybody. You don't have to go around tom-tomming your happiness
00:18So, please drop the illusion that people are indeed happy this thing about being indeed happy
00:26Truly happy is called joy. We don't have it and that's why we run after flimsy pleasures
00:32Spirituality, please is not about dropping the real thing
00:35It is about dropping false pleasures so that you can have real joy and false pleasures are the same as suffering
00:43So spirituality is about dropping suffering so that you can have joy all these things that we do to get pleased are just a
00:51confirmation of our
00:53Internal state of veils and tears