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Acharya Prashant: We anyway live in attitudes, try to have a carefree attitude. Try to have an attitude of reasonless security, try to have an attitude in which you don't get daunted easily, you don't start shivering easily.

The world might be stamping its feet in front of you, angrily, shouting, trying to freak you out and you're looking at it with a composed face with irreverent eyes as if, yeah, hmmm (nodding head in the assertion). It feels bad. It really hurts when the one, you are trying to scare does not get scared.

There was a kid's camp, I freshly returned from there. So, I probably have outdated ideas about kids. I bought three or four masks. Really scary masks as per my standards and then on the first morning when all the kids were asleep I wore those masks and I also bought a couple of rubber snakes and I took those rubber snakes and when the kids were sleeping I went to them and tried to scare them and they looked at me and phew (sounds like uninterested, went back to sleep).

That should be your attitude when the world comes to you with all its terrible faces, you should say, phew, and go off back to sleep. It's okay, fine. I felt hurt.

There is really no pleasure deeper than not getting disturbed when the entire world is conspiring to disturb you.

Take it from me. This deepest pleasure is called joy. Everybody, the entire game of situations seems hell-bent on freaking you out, on just destroying your piece and you're looking at it with indifference. You're looking at it as if you do not know who you are talking to, yes. Do I know you? And even as you are looking at it and uttering these words, you start feeling drowsy and you go off to sleep. And the fellow is dancing a terrible dance hoping to extract some reaction from you. And the greatest reaction that you can give is that you start snoring; that is your reaction. He's shouting at you and you are snoring. You are home.

Spirituality gives you the incapacity to be disturbed.

You don't have it in your capacity anymore to feel disturbed. Spirituality takes away from you the capacity to be disturbed. So, you are left incapable of being disturbed. Even if you try to be disturbed, you start feeling bored of yourself. What kind of pathetic attempt is this? I am trying to get disturbed. It doesn't happen and you complain it's not happening for me, what do I do? And nobody comes to help you. You are gone. You are finished.

When if you want to feel emotionally dizzy and hormonally high, it doesn't happen. You look at all the others who are riding the highs and going crazy with their own disorders, shouting madly as they ride the roller coaster of life and you wonder why is that not happening with me? It won't happen anymore. You have lost it. That is spirituality.

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