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Breaking Through Pride: Finding True Clarity in the Present || Acharya Prashant (2023)
Video Information: 08.06.2023, Gita Samagam English, Goa
📋 Video Chapters
0:00 - Introduction about total change
0:28 - Understanding duality
2:45 - Acknowledge all aspects
5:00 - Start new every day
8:23 - Liberation through change
12:05 - Security hinders growth
16:45 - Pursue unknown growth
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In this insightful discussion, Acharya Prashant emphasizes the importance of embracing change and moving beyond the dualities of pride and disdain in our lives. He highlights that personal growth involves acknowledging both our achievements and shortcomings, suggesting that true value lies within us rather than in external accomplishments. Acharya Prashant encourages listeners to let go of their past attachments and to continuously reinvent themselves each day, treating every morning as a new opportunity for growth.
He argues that clinging to the familiar can lead to stagnation, and that real progress requires a willingness to explore the unknown, even if it brings discomfort. The conversation stresses that assured success can often equate to failure, as it limits our potential for deeper transformation. Instead, Acharya Prashant advocates for embracing experimental failures and setbacks as essential components of the journey toward liberation and self-discovery. Ultimately, he inspires individuals to cultivate an eagerness for change, urging them to reject complacency and to actively seek new experiences that foster personal evolution.
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Breaking Through Pride: Finding True Clarity in the Present || Acharya Prashant (2023)
Video Information: 08.06.2023, Gita Samagam English, Goa
📋 Video Chapters
0:00 - Introduction about total change
0:28 - Understanding duality
2:45 - Acknowledge all aspects
5:00 - Start new every day
8:23 - Liberation through change
12:05 - Security hinders growth
16:45 - Pursue unknown growth
Description:
In this insightful discussion, Acharya Prashant emphasizes the importance of embracing change and moving beyond the dualities of pride and disdain in our lives. He highlights that personal growth involves acknowledging both our achievements and shortcomings, suggesting that true value lies within us rather than in external accomplishments. Acharya Prashant encourages listeners to let go of their past attachments and to continuously reinvent themselves each day, treating every morning as a new opportunity for growth.
He argues that clinging to the familiar can lead to stagnation, and that real progress requires a willingness to explore the unknown, even if it brings discomfort. The conversation stresses that assured success can often equate to failure, as it limits our potential for deeper transformation. Instead, Acharya Prashant advocates for embracing experimental failures and setbacks as essential components of the journey toward liberation and self-discovery. Ultimately, he inspires individuals to cultivate an eagerness for change, urging them to reject complacency and to actively seek new experiences that foster personal evolution.
🎧 Listen to Acharya Prashant on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2QmVEAAnsNE7Xs0MW0Li8Y?si=09fbcbc7c99c469b
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00:00Sir, you talked about total change, so I have been hearing Jidur Krishnamurthy also talked
00:09about but this became very clear today and why is it difficult because you said that
00:12we are proud of some things and we and other things we disdain, so what is the way ahead
00:18like for example, we are proud of few things about ourselves, so do we need to look into
00:23them and find out the flaws which probably are subtle or what is…
00:28It's like moving to the next quantum level, the next orbit, fine, I have come to a certain place,
00:36I am proud of the place I have come to, coming to this place has involved its own struggles
00:42and its own share of tribulations, trials and everything else but it's a mixed bag,
00:48that's what duality is, right, always a mixed bag, so now, all right, this is the mixed bag,
00:55now can I just keep the bag aside and begin something afresh
01:02but that's not how the mind wants to operate, it sticks to a few things in the bag
01:10and you put your hand inside the bag for that one or two units, pieces that you like
01:19and what do you get? Everything that's in the bag, you cannot be partially
01:27attached to a few things, you will get everything in the bag,
01:32you have to keep everything aside, if the process has really given you
01:41something valuable, it's not there in the bag,
01:44it's there in your heart, if the whole journey has actually benefited you,
01:54it would have benefited you in the internal sense, not in the sense of what you
02:01have gained by way of accomplishments in your hand, no, so that entire bag can be kept aside
02:09and you say, yes, whatsoever was worthy of being taken from the process till now,
02:19I'm 35 years of age now, these 35 years have, if they have really given me anything worthwhile,
02:25it's now there within me, so it's there within me and I can proceed on the back of that,
02:34I'll use that and I'll move to the next quanta, next orbit.
02:45The bottom line is, it is futile to expect that you can have one thing and not the other,
02:56that is just impossible.
03:02Have you ever seen a person with half a face?
03:08The left cheek is there, the right is not, if the left is there, the right too will be there,
03:14there might be some difference, fine, but left cannot exist without the right, that has to be
03:19understood. So, acknowledge both, acknowledge both, I'm proud of the way I got all that
03:35I cherish in my journey so far and I also see that I got a few other things, now it's time to
03:43move on, move on and this moving on must be a constant process, everyday process, every day,
03:54every morning I wake up, I keep my old self behind or aside, when I say it's time to move on,
04:03move on, keep moving on, keep moving on, keep putting the old self behind you and take a step
04:15further, you're not obliged to carry your past on your shoulders, right?
04:21Be it good or bad, be it good or bad, fine, see if there was any worth in what life has given me
04:33so far, that worth can anyway not be taken away, that worth now sits here, so all the other things
04:41I can safely just, you know, visarjan, I had this and now mother river, prakriti, you take it back,
04:53today is a new day, today is a new birth,
04:59let me try something new, can I become better, can I move to the next orbit,
05:06is it mandatory to repeat the day gone by, is it mandatory, then why must you repeat the same
05:14nonsense every passing day, why do you find yourself obliged to be the same old self,
05:27that's called spiritual entrepreneurship, to start a new life every morning,
05:35and to exit it every night,
05:40serial entrepreneur, I start a firm every morning and I quit my own venture every night,
05:48and then I restart, this is not just poetry, this has practicality.
05:59So, it is like when you talk about the bad things, you still want to get rid of,
06:03for example, you have been late, but then the good things looks not possible,
06:07not possible, it is not possible to separate it that way.
06:22The good things may have been so-called spiritually correct, then
06:27if there is real goodness, it stays here, so don't be afraid, you are not anyway leaving
06:36anything behind, or you could say I am only leaving the nonsense behind, because all the
06:43goodness I will anyway carry with me, the goodness is the heart itself, so don't be afraid.
06:50Sticking to the old self is the worst kind of boredom.
07:06What's your favorite movie? The Godfather. How many times have you seen it?
07:12The Godfather. How many times have you seen it?
07:18Five, six times. Five, six times. How about the movie called Rohit Rajdhan?
07:27The Raazfather. You keep watching that movie every day without ever getting bored.
07:36So, a point must come when you simply get bored of yourself,
07:44the nonsense again, you look at yourself and say, get lost.
07:55Reinventing yourself is very important.
07:57In fact, even very external measures like changing your hairstyle or your wardrobe or whatever,
08:13learning a new skill, a new language, whatever,
08:16obviously these are external and therefore a bit trivial, but even they matter.
08:21The hell of life is repetitiveness.
08:27Same things over and over again, same words, same habits, same clothes, same places, same, same, just the sameness.
08:41And why the sameness? Because there is security in sameness.
08:44Because there is security in sameness.
08:49And there is a little bit of happiness in sameness.
08:54And because sameness stands proven.
08:56Sometimes one must change things just for the heck of it.
09:17You go to a cafe, you order something, you do not know what it is, that's okay.
09:22That's okay. At most you will reject that item and some 200 rupees will be lost.
09:27Every time you go there and you say Chola Kulcha, what is that nonsense?
09:3320,000 times he has ordered Chola Kulcha and still ordering the same thing.
09:39Try some new dresses, some new places.
09:52Moving on is being bored of oneself.
09:59Allow yourself to be bored of yourself.
10:01I am not saying that real newness lies in getting a new kind of hairstyle or whatever.
10:22But I am saying even this is better than rotting in the same oldness.
10:40Sir, you said just while answering a question that every morning you should have something
10:52new to be done. I mean, and something new projects should be taken a step.
11:00Like then you explained us that even getting different type of food,
11:08different type of clothes or whatever it is, it has to be something different and you
11:12should get bored of yourself, whatever his routine life is. But number one is what the
11:20confusion is coming to me is, it is more of internal thoughts, internal things has to be
11:28changed. It is not that today I am brushing with Colgate, tomorrow I am having a Neem Datun.
11:35I mean, it is not like that. It's just an example. So, but how to have because my thought
11:42process is a continuous thought process which is going on. How to have radical change in that
11:48thought process? Because whatever will come will come from the past only. What I am suggesting
11:55Rohit is that if you are so resistant to change that you cannot even change your wardrobe,
12:02how will you allow anything else in life to change? We categorically said that all these
12:08things we are talking of food and clothes and hairstyle, these are external and trivial.
12:16These are external and trivial. The question is if one does not have the courage or the intention
12:24to bring even trivial change in life, how will one bring deeper change in life?
12:32That's the question. I am not saying that deeper change will necessarily follow external change
12:39because there are a lot of people who keep changing their hairstyles every second month
12:48and yet there is no real inner change. We know of all that.
12:53But the point to be conveyed is that there has to be a resistance to sameness
13:01because sameness is security. Sameness is stagnation.
13:07In some sense, sameness is what you would classically call as Tamsikta.
13:13Is it not? Even to achieve the same successes over and over again, please tell me, how is it not Tamsikta?
13:24So I am saying even to attain the same successes again and again, how is it not Tamsikta?
13:35How is it not Tamsikta?
13:38If Tamsikta is about settling down at a sub-optimal place,
13:45so how is it not the same kind of inertia to repeat your successes, your proven and
13:53secure successes again and again? In business that often happens, right? If you are an established
14:00firm, then you have a formula for success. You know the market. You already know things in advance
14:05that would lead to success. It's not as if you are playing in the dark. How is that not Tamsikta?
14:15And wherever there is a lot of security, there is death. Death in some sense is the final security.
14:25Is it not? Guaranteed, assured. Nothing at risk there. Nothing in terms of probability is there.
14:36So it is the final assurance. Somebody asks you, will there be death? You say the probability is
14:421.00. Absolute certainty. So if you are looking for even an assured kind of formulaic success,
14:55that is just the antithesis of life. So it is better to have experimental failures
15:10and setbacks rather than having assured successes.
15:15Try this thing out. Do that. Do this. What I see, Sanjitji, and you know, I'm not that kind of
15:25seer or something, but just with my mortal eyes, what I can see on the screen is what you call as NUI.
15:36What you call as NUI. A sense of boredom.
15:47There is not much vigor that I see.
15:55And if that great destination is to be achieved,
15:59that great destination called Atma or liberation, then one requires a lot of energy.
16:06You cannot travel all the way without having the requisite energy.
16:12How can you lose energy in the middle of the process?
16:20Your face must be radiating with an eagerness.
16:27The eagerness to go all the way. The eagerness to change tracks when and where needed.
16:36I repeat, assured success is another name for failure.
16:51I do agree. So even if it is coming very easily to you, reject it.
17:01If you are established in one kind of game and you know very well now the tricks of the game,
17:06stop playing that game.
17:10What fun is there anymore?
17:19So going to an unknown territory, unknown terrain and being in...
17:25Not just unknown. Higher and unknown.
17:31Unknown could also mean doing, you know, now going and joining the mafioso in Italy.
17:39That too is something unknown to you. So not just unknown, higher and unknown.
17:51And in that there will be fear and a lot of wonderment.
17:59And a lot of wonderment, a feeling of insecurity, but that's what keeps one young, you know.
18:16Definitely sir, I will act upon it. There may not be a radiation of energy,
18:22but definitely I know myself, I have a lot of energy towards achieving this goal.
18:27And I will. I'm glad you will and all my best wishes.
18:33And the face has already begun to radiate.
18:57you