How to keep others happy? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

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How to keep others happy? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Speaker: HIDP is telling us that our first and primary responsibility is towards ourselves. Then what about parents, friends and the society?

Listener: Not the society.

Speaker: Just the parents.

Listener: Parents and our teachers.

Speaker: All of that is society. Even parents are society. Anybody apart from you is?

Listeners *(in unison)*: Society.

Speaker: So there are just two, the individual and the society. You are there and everybody apart from you is society.

So what to do with them? What about them? If my primary responsibility is towards myself, then what do I do with them. I can probably see where your question is coming from. She is saying, “I want to keep my parents happy”. Right?

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Tanushree

2y ago

Thank you, for the precise explanation of What is missing in all the relationships ! nd primarily in How to keep our 'ghada' ..our own vessel filled...which solves 90% of all our problems. Tasted the flavours of...... 'mindfulness', 'letting go...

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