प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी अकेलापन महसूस करती हूँ और पुरानी बातें याद आती हैं। इस पर आपने कहा था कि विद्रोह पूर्ण करना पड़ता है। हम जहाँ रहते हैं, जहाँ काम करते हैं, ये सारी जगह एक होती हैं तो विद्रोह पूर्ण करना पड़ता है।माताजी के गुजरने और घर के… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: नमस्ते आचार्य जी। मेरा नाम है सुष्मिता भट्टाचार्य और मैं जर्मनी के म्यूनिख शहर में रहती हूँ, और यहाँ पर में बच्चों के स्कूल में पढ़ाती हूँ। मेरा आज का सवाल जो है वो इस सत्र से रिलेटेड नहीं है।
मेरा आज का सवाल है हाल ही में पुणे… read_more
Questioner: Why do people commit suicide?
Acharya Prashant: They still have a lot of hope. They feel that suicide would redeem them. They have not given up everything. They are still carrying a lot of hope. If I do not know what is beyond life, how can I enter that… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: मैं एक मध्यम वर्गीय परिवार से हूँ और बचपन से ही बहुत कम महत्वाकांक्षी रहा हूँ। खेल-खेल में ही मैंने जेईई का एग्ज़ाम क्रैक किया (परीक्षा उत्तीर्ण की) और आइआइटी खड़गपुर में इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स इंजीनियरिंग (अभियान्त्रिकी) करने का मौका मिला।
इंजीनियरिंग के दूसरे वर्ष में ट्रैकिंग (पर्वतारोहण) करने का मौका… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, किसी भी काम को करने में मन क्यों नहीं लगता है?
आचार्य प्रशांत: अभी कल ही एक लड़का आया था मुझसे मिलने। वो मध्य प्रदेश के सागर जिले में खाद्य विभाग में काम करता है। नया लड़का है, अभी-अभी नौकरी का एंट्रेंस क्लियर किया है और डेढ़-दो… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, जब कोई कुछ बोलता है, तो न चाहते हुए भी ‘ना’ नहीं बोल पाता हूँ।
आचार्य प्रशांत: ‘ना’ तो तुम बोलते हो, ऐसा तो नहीं है कि ‘ना’ नहीं बोल पाते।
ऐसा नहीं है। ‘ना’ तो हम बोलते हैं, वहाँ हमारा गणित होता है। हमें अच्छे से… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: नमस्ते आचार्य जी। मैं आजकल देख रहा हूँ कि युवाओं में बहुत हीनभावना बढ़ रही है और समय मिलता है, देश छोड़ देते हैं, आत्म गौरव जैसी चीज़ नहीं है। मैंने उपनिषद् का एक श्लोक पढ़ा था, वो मेरे जहन में बैठ गया है। मैं पढ़ना चाहता हूँ।
युवा … read_more
Questioner: What we get from outside especially in the childhood, is the love, affection, care of our parents, family. How can that contribute to our ego?
Acharya Prashant: There is a saying, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” People’s intentions are good, but they end up doing… read_more
Acharya Prashant: ‘How can I get my ex-girlfriend back?’ The question comes from Shubham. Shubham you will have to die (audience bursts into laughter) . There is no other way, you will have to die.
You know, it was Kabir Sahab who said: ये तो घर है प्रेम का, खाला … read_more
Acharya Prashant: Energy arises when you know what you are doing. Life is inert and boring when you do not know what you are really doing. You have no interest in doing anything.
All of you are sitting here. There are many of you who are looking here and… read_more
Listener : Sir, we have heard this thing and understood it well that with maturity comes responsibility. My question is on the next statement which I will state now that, “Responsibility also given before time and before maturity, have the tendency to spoil that person to whom it is given,… read_more
Listener: Can we do music, study and exercise together, successfully?
Speaker: Sagar is asking, can I be into music, studies and exercising simultaneously.
No, never simultaneously! Never simultaneously. I would not really enjoy if you are exercising right now? Or if you are singing right now. Right now there can… read_more
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Question: Sir, is it possible to help those who are deeply blind, even if they do not agree or acknowledge that they are blind? Is it possible to help such people?
Speaker: Alok is asking that… read_more
Speaker: How many of you feel this way that when the time is there, the opportunity is there, you feel blank? The mind experiences a blackout. Do you understand a blackout? There is nothing. And when the moment is gone then the thoughts arise. In the moment of action, you… read_more
Speaker: You see we are outrageously arrogant when it comes to small things, we are so fond of claiming that which we do not have, but we are absurdly humble when it comes to claiming that which we really have. You don’t have a large house but you would not… read_more
Question: Sir, how to become a child again?
Speaker: The child is there, let it loose. Why do you cage it? Why do you suppress it? Why must you act so mature and grown up? Why must your face be so thoughtful? Why must you appear so serious and absorbed?… read_more
Speaker: Achievement will happen, but the mind will remain non-achiever.
Achievements will happen, great achievements will happen, greater than what you have ever dreamed of, greater than your greatest goal but you will not be an achiever, and it is a beautiful thing. Achievements are just happening and I am… read_more
Student: Sir, how to get rid of unwanted thoughts in the mind?
Speaker: The unwanted thought? What is your name?
Student: Avnish
Speaker: Avnish is asking how to get rid of the unwanted noise of thought in the mind. How many of you have experienced this, that there is so… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी प्रणाम। मैं आपके द्वारा लोगों को लाभ पाता देखता हूँ। इस शिविर में भी बहुत से लोग ऐसे हैं जो लाभान्वित हुए हैं, और अपनी कृतज्ञता भी व्यक्त करते हैं और साथ में संस्था के जो स्वयं सेवक हैं उनके कार्य को भी देखता हूँ, तो मेरा… read_more
Acharya Prashant: We can live in two kinds of worlds. How? Even as I am speaking to you, some of you are listening, and the others might be thinking and wandering and lost in imagination, Right? Do you see that? You have to be together in this. Is that alright?… read_more
Questioner (Q): We encounter these nodes in the path of our lives where we have to make decisions. The majority of us have a lot of duties associated with our life, and these duties also come with some demands associated with how we must act. For example, right now I… read_more
Question: I often find my life revolving around petty issues, issues around ‘me’, mine’. And there is a deep frustration because of this. I feel that I want something more. Is that just an ideology, or there is something more to it?
Speaker: Life is not something, cast in stone.… read_more
Acharya Prashant (AP): If you are peaceful, if you are joyful, if you are centered, if you do not always feel like running after achievement, then no change is needed. Everything is alright.
Look at this. When you are running after achievement, what is this that you are saying? "I… read_more
Acharya Prashant (AP): Wonderful! A nice question has come to us. Our friend is saying that greed is making people work. If you remove greed from people’s life, they will not grow. So, I'm asking him, what is growth?
Questioner (Q): Growth is evolution. Like we have evolved into a… read_more
If the two persons who are in this social arrangement of marriage are also spiritual friends, then they rise above the social arrangement. The social arrangement by itself is a recipe for disaster. But when the social arrangement is purified, consecrated by the spiritual touch, then the poison in it… read_more
Questioner : Is it possible to be related without attachment?
Shri Prashant : The question covers the wider issue of relationships. What are relationships? What is the place of attachment in relationships?
Relationships could come from three different, distinct sources. There could be three different basis of relationships.
The lowest … read_more
Disatisfied how do you feel? Tell me.
Listener: Sir, I feel afraid, I feel insecure, and a lot of questions.
Speaker: Right, you feel afraid, you feel insecure and a lot of questions – can we call them doubts? You feel doubtful.
Look at the flow that is coming to… read_more
Listener: How can we get rid of past and future worries that distract our present and dis-illuminate our path?
Speaker: Kushagra is asking how can we get rid of our past and future worries that distract our present and dis-illuminate our path. Path goes to where?
Listener: Future.
Speaker: So,… read_more
Speaker: Amit says, ‘Assuming that I have to go to a place where there are all foolish men, how can I retain my individuality there?’ First of all the individual does not have to go anywhere. ‘Have to’ implies compulsion. ‘Have to’ implies that there is somebody else who is… read_more
Law just says that there is a legal age—eighteen, twenty-one and such things. First of all, giving birth requires that there has to be mental maturity.
Unfortunately, 99% of the world’s population is not at all mentally mature enough to be parents. The funny thing is that the 1% who… read_more
Question: Is it possible to change ‘that’ (the outer world) by changing ‘this’ (the mind)?
Acharya Prashant: Yes! They are related. When the quality of the mind changes, the world also changes. Haven’t you heard this? *‘Jaisi drishti waisi shrishti ’*? Change ‘this’ (the mind) and ‘that’… read_more
Questioner: Sir, you always say to live with the thoughts. But at any second there are so many thoughts in mind so how to control it, sir? How to control the mind?
Acharya Prashant: Who will control them? If one is in a dream and the dream is a very… read_more
Student- Why do people fall in love?
Speaker- We talked about the child and we said that the child’s brain is like a sponge. Right?
We tried to look at the child in terms of some kind of physical properties of the brain. Let’s extend it further and see what… read_more
Shri Prashant: This is a camera (holding a smartphone in hand, pointing towards the camera) and let’s say that there is something written over here (pointing at the wall) . I want to let it come to me through this camera and I record it using this camera and the… read_more
Question: How can we overcome our fears?
Speaker: For quite a while I have been inviting questions. Did you think just now of asking this question, or was this question written on your page since the beginning?
Listener 1: Since the beginning.
Speaker: Since the beginning. You did not raise… read_more
Questioner: How did sages like Ashtavakra and Adi Shankara attain wisdom at such an early age of fourteen or eight? You have said in many of your videos that unbearable pain coming from falseness is the starting point of the journey towards the Truth. How can someone have this kind… read_more
Questioner: Dear Sir, I am writing this mail with a very heavy heart. It is on account of my affection for my father, that I had to get into the filth of society and family. But now that I am into it, I find myself unable to be a part… read_more
Shri Prashant: The question asked is why must one understand the ego?
So, what is the ego? What have you understood? Forget the rules.
Listener 1 : Something which lets us develop ourselves. If we do not have ego, we cannot develop.
SP: Put it in very simple language,… read_more
Question: Sir, love is not attachment. Attachment means habit and if it is so, the person you love becomes an object. But if we are not attached to that person we love, then we see that person like others, and it is our habit to hurt others for our own… read_more
Question: What should be the place of our parent’s views in our decision making?
Acharya Prashant: Who will decide the importance given to anybody’s views? Parents views or anybody’s views? Who will decide that? You will decide that. Even if I give you some answer right now, who will decide… read_more
