Self-Realisation is not the ending of the struggles, it is the ending of the struggler || Acharya Prashant (2014)

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Self-Realisation is not the ending of the struggles, it is the ending of the struggler || Acharya Prashant (2014)

Acharya Prashant

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Self-Realisation is not the ending of the struggles, it is the ending of the struggler || Acharya Prashant (2014)

Question: Is self-realisation for everyone? Many people would choose to live a life of illusion, take comfort in that. Do we really need to wake them up? And of course, the struggles of life don’t end even after self-realisation.

Speaker: It is something like that of a mountain bus driver – he has his challenges, of which passengers know nothing about.

Self-realisation is not the cessation of struggles. Self-realisation is the ending of the struggler. Self-realisation is not the cessation of troubles, it is the ending of the struggler.

Imagine that this is a viper snake *(signalling towards a pen), a*nd you believe in it, right? This is a viper snake, and it is deeply poisonous. Alright? You look at it. Now, how do you react? Think that this is a viper snake, and now act.

(Listeners acting scared, afraid).

Speaker: Alright. Now open your eyes. What is it?

Listener 1: It’s a pen.

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