Shamelessly, guiltlessly, continue with your wandering ways || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Guilt

Shamelessly, guiltlessly, continue with your wandering ways || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Acharya Prashant

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Shamelessly, guiltlessly, continue with your wandering ways || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Question: Two years ago, I left my job, my girlfriend and my home. Since then, I am okay but now I don’t know whether it is okay to run away? I wonder at myself.

Acharya Prashant: But do you have an obligation to not to run away? What makes you feel that running away is a sin or a crime? Are you running away from life or are you running away from disturbance? Are you running just away from something or are you running towards something? Important to ask! Or you just running?

You have no obligation to not to avoid something. You have no obligation to remain a part of the system. It is the system that teaches you that running away from the system is a crime. Why must you feel guilty of avoiding the system? Yes, run away. By all means run away. Why must you not run away?

(Smiles)

Listener: It is not about the society. It’s just about myself as if this way of life was rough. But sometimes a thought comes that it (running away) is a good way to avoid responsibilities.

AP: Are you obliged to bear your responsibility?

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