That's what self-knowledge does. It makes you a person of taste, a person of good taste. You will now not be found going after worthless people, men, women, whatever.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, pranam. Going by my own mental state, I am seeing that two bodily conditionings are afflicting me. One is the food, I am too much attached to the tasty food, though I am trying to observe why I am attached to these, waiting for taking, intake of the food, resisting, still attraction is there. Though it has come down, but, it is there.
And the other intrinsic bodily conditioning is the attraction towards the opposite sex. Though it is very down from my beginning, when I joined you in 2019, intensity is very less. But still, I feel troubled by these body conditionings.
And regarding social conditioning, I feel that I am still dependent on my job for comfort and for social recognition. These points are troubling me, and I am trying to get out of these. I think it is becoming a war inside me. I am giving too much importance to these conditioning. What can be the way out? How to get out of this?
Acharya Prashant: Animals in the jungle never overeat. And they don’t care for delicious food. They want food, just as life energy. Right? And if a big python or crocodile happens to swallow a big animal, they will not eat for long weeks or even months. There is no intention to overeat. If a huge thing has come, we will take it, but then we will not eat for long. Why does man overeat? There has to be something specific to man's psyche that is not found in animals. Please guess.
