कृपा प्रदर्शित करने का तरीका है — युद्ध में निष्ठुरता। जो धर्म-विरुद्ध जा रहा हो, उसके प्रति सबसे बड़ी कृपा यही है कि उसको रोक दिया जाए। अगर अचेत व्यक्तियों को तुमने निष्ठुर होकर रोका नहीं, तो तुम उन्हें परोक्ष रूप से और ज़्यादा अधर्म करने के लिए प्रोत्साहित ही कर रहे हो। याद रहे कि किसी व्यक्ति के प्रति तुम्हारी आसक्ति, सत्य के प्रति तुम्हारे समर्पण से बड़ी न हो जाए।
प्रश्नकर्ता१: नमस्ते सर। सर, बकरीद आने वाली है तो कल ही मेरे दोस्तों से मेरी बात हो रही थी व्हाट्सएप पर। तो उन्हें मैंने बोला कि भई इस बकरीद पर आप बकरा मत काटना — वो हर बकरीद पर काटते हैं।
No wise man will ever take your problem seriously, believe me. For the wise one, all your problems are bad jokes—not even worthy of a sound laughter. But then he says, "You know, I can see through. You cannot. So, I'll give up my right to laugh at you. I'll instead pretend to be serious." "Yes, yes, yes, of course! We have a problem!" He says, "You know, there was a time I was so much like you. These same things were big issues even to me. But I know they can be outgrown.
Just try figuring out where the thing is coming from. You'll not always succeed. It's a bit of a guesswork but it at least tells you that the thing is not original or authentic, it is coming from somewhere. So you find, for example, some descendant of an aristocratic lineage talking to you and he's talking in a particular manner and if you can see that the manner belongs to his great grandfather that brings a smile to you. Where is the thing coming from? That's not him talking, that's his great grandfather talking.
Acharya Prashant: By looking at one Vivekanand, you start imagining, or dreaming, or expecting that all youth can be like Vivekanand. And in this lies your ingratitude and disrespect towards Vivekanand. You do not know what kind of an impossibility a Vivekanand is. You do not appreciate him, so you
Acharya Prashant: You have to ask yourself what your primary identity is. If your primary identity is that of the body, then do what the body commands you to do. Good. The body has an inbuilt software of its own, and it’s a self-improving software. Its capacity to keep improving
Acharya Prashant: Love and responsibility have to be reasonless. They have to be mad. One has to be crazy enough to put in everything for a seemingly trivial creature.
Questioner: This is a paradox. So far, as I think, often people suffer because they are afraid of Truth. They would rather accept any kind of suffering than to seek into their life. It demands courage.
Shri Prashant: So, in fact, you see, another paradox is that while everyone is…
Questioner (Q): I have discovered that being a little altruistic, a little selfless makes me feel that I am elevating my consciousness. That is what works for me. But one problem associated with this is the problem of the violation of boundaries. So, suppose I want to help a person
The world is all yours if you are first of the world’s master. Have you gone to people who have dogs? If you are on good terms with the master of the dog, the dog comes and wags its tail in front of you. The dog says, “If you are
Question (Q): Dear Acharya Ji, pranam. Since the last few days, I have been sharing my learnings with my parents. Every time I discuss something with them, I have to deliberately attack their conditioned mind to make them aware of their conditioning. I feel sorry for them, and I
If the two of you could together shout and scratch and bite and tear and break—if all those things could be done together, why not meditate and be loving and compassionate together? Or is companionship only for biting into each other?
So, having been companions, now it is your responsibility…
Love is not about admiring somebody’s physicality, or using someone for some means. Love has to be an exercise in compassion. So, I often say, when you relate to the other, relate either to uplift or to be uplifted.
Only two kinds of associations are right in this world. If…
Acharya Prashant: The question is, if one wants to help, how does one go about helping? How does one create the right conditions for the other? Good, practical question.
Questioner (Q): Hello sir, Valentine's Day is coming and for the past few days in our College there has been a an environment of romance and every day there is a new celebration. There is Teddy day, then Rose day and then chocolate day and we often see that these
प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी प्रणाम। सबसे पहले आपका बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद काफ़ी कुछ बदलाव आया है। मैं पाठ कर रहा था, तो उसमें भगवान दत्तात्रेय का जिक्र था। तो उनसे कुछ ऋषि पूछने आएँ, उनमें से कुछ ऋषि गृहस्थ हैं। अपना पूरा वृतांत बताया। कहते हैं, "ऐसा है, वैसा है।" दत्तात्रेय सब…
प्रश्नकर्ता: प्रणाम आचार्य जी। मैं मथुरा की हूँ। छः माह पहले आपका एक वीडियो फ़ेसबुक पर देखा और उसके बाद निरन्तर आपका आशीर्वाद मिलता रहा। मैं पिछले वेदान्त महोत्सव में आयी थी और उस समय
प्रश्नकर्ता: नमस्कार आचार्य जी। मैं पिछले सोलह सालों से विश्वविद्यालय में राजनीति विज्ञान पढ़ा रही थी। तो पिछले एक साल से मेरा बिलकुल मन नहीं था, अपनी सेवा को जारी रखने का। तो मैंने एक भयभीत दृश्य देखा। मेरे आसपास, जहाँ पर मैं रहती हूँ; वहाँ पर जानवरों पर बहुत
प्रश्नकर्ता: पहले तो आपका बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद। जब मैंने एनिमल क्रूएलिटी (पशु क्रूरता) के सम्बन्ध में काम करना शुरू किया था उन्नीस-सौ-चौरानवे में तो जागरूकता भी बहुत कम थी लेकिन शायद उस तरह की औद्योगिक क्रूरता भी बहुत कम थी जो हम अब देख रहे हैं। तो निरन्तर माँस की
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सेवा की शर्त है: समझदारी। जब कोई आए और बड़ी उत्सुकता दिखाए कि आपकी सेवा करनी है, तो इतना ज़रूर देख लेना कि उसने अपनी सेवा कर ली है या नहीं। जो अपना हितैषी नहीं हो पाया, वो तुम्हारा हितैषी क्या ख़ाक होगा। और जब तुम्हारे मन में ये भाव उठे कि, "मुझे किसी की सेवा करनी है," तो स्वयं से ये पूछ लेना, "क्या मैं इस क़ाबिल हूँ? अपनी सेवा कर ली?"
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गीता का संबंध हमारे जीवन से है, सिर्फ़ हमारे जीवन से ही है और किसी चीज़ से नहीं है। अध्यात्म, दर्शन — ये सब इसलिए नहीं होते कि आपका ज्ञान बढ़ जाए। ये इसलिए होते हैं ताकि आपका जीवन सुधर जाए। ये श्लोक आपको कुछ बता रहा है, आपके संबंधों के बारे में। पलायन कर लेना आसान होता है। अपनी कामनाओं की पूर्ति के लिए अपने कर्तव्यों की बलि चढ़ा देना आसान होता है, और ये सब करते हैं हम लोग अपनी-अपनी ज़िन्दगी में।
It has been a tradition in India that when you donate, you bow down to the one you are donating to, because he has done you a favour by accepting your donation. Being what we are, it is hardly possible for us to do anything for others. Kindly get over this notion that we live for others. That is the privilege granted only to a Buddha. Only in a state of inner fulfilment can one really do something for others.
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फ़ालतू खर्च छोड़िए, अपनी ज़िंदगी पर खर्च करना सीखिए
आचार्य प्रशांत बताते हैं कि क्यों हम सही खान-पान, स्वास्थ्य और अपने ऊपर ज़रूरी खर्च से बचते हैं, लेकिन दिखावे और फ़ालतू सामाजिक परंपराओं पर पैसा बहा देते हैं। अधिकांश लोगों के लिए समस्या सिर्फ़ पैसों की कमी नहीं, बल्कि विवेक और सही प्राथमिकताओं की कमी भी है।
Justice Without Boundaries: Why Compassion Cannot Stop at Species
Oppression should not see caste, gender, creed or colour, and it should not see species either. The moral threshold is sentience, not intelligence. An animal feels pain as fully as a human does, whether or not it can explain its suffering.
Climate change is more than an environmental crisis—it is a crisis of human choices. Our patterns of consumption, consumerism and endless pursuit of more are putting increasing pressure on the planet. But meaningful change does not necessarily begin with new technology or stricter policies. It begins with a deeper question: what are we willing to change within ourselves?
एक पुजारी जो रोज़ भूत-प्रेत, तंत्र-मंत्र और वशीकरण के नाम पर आए लोगों से मिलता है, आचार्य प्रशांत से पूछता है: जब वो ख़ुद जानता है कि कुछ भूत-चुड़ैल नहीं होता, तो लोग बार-बार इसी झूठ की शरण में क्यों जाते हैं? जवाब अंधविश्वास से कहीं गहरा निकलता है — यह हमारे भीतर के उस झूठ की कहानी है, जिसे हम हर कीमत पर बचाना चाहते हैं।
Struggling to choose between a secure job and the path you actually feel drawn to? This isn't really a question about careers. It's about why other people's opinions have so much power over you in the first place. Real clarity doesn't come from finding the 'right' choice. It comes from honestly looking at your own fear, again and again, until it stops running the decision for you.
ज्योतिष कितना सच है? कुंडली, ग्रह-नक्षत्र: इनका क्या अर्थ है?
वेदांत को केवल इसलिए सही या श्रेष्ठ नहीं माना जा सकता कि वह किसी विशेष परंपरा से आता है। विज्ञान जहाँ भौतिक जगत की वस्तुनिष्ठ जाँच करता है, वहीं अद्वैत वेदांत सीधे मनुष्य के ‘मैं’, उसके दुख, बंधन और मुक्ति की पड़ताल करता है। इसकी कसौटी वैज्ञानिक प्रमाण नहीं, बल्कि अपने जीवन में इसकी सच्चाई को देख पाना है। किसी दर्शन को मान लेना नहीं, बल्कि उससे स्वयं को मुक्त करना ही उसका वास्तविक उद्देश्य है।
So the opposite of cruelty is not compassion. The opposite of cruelty is often either attachment or possessiveness or taking care of those who are related to you by way of self-interest. So that's the domain of duality. So yes, it is true that the mind wanders about in duality and then there is hope and there is hopelessness and then there is friendship and then there is enmity. So all these are aspects of duality but compassion does not sit anywhere in the dualistic framework.
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When you are not bothered about the other, that is when you are totally compassionate. When you are not trying to change the other, that is when you become an agent of change. Compassion is not about thinking all the time of others. You cannot try to be compassionate.
When you are alright, then the sound of your footsteps is compassion. That is what compassion is.
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जो जगेगा, वही रोएगा क्योंकि संसार बड़ी पीड़ा में है। और जो जगता है, संसार की पीड़ा अपने ऊपर ले लेता है। संतों का रोना संत की करुणा की अभिव्यक्ति है। वो तुम्हारे लिए रोते हैं, वो अपने लिए नहीं रोते। दस लोग सो रहे हैं और घर में आग लग गई है। उन दस में से एक जगा हुआ है, तनाव किसे रहेगा? एक जगे हुए आदमी को ना! जो जग जाता है, वह शिव की तरह संसार के विष को ग्रहण करता है।
Questioner: We have a question by Pooja. So people who try to become self-aware and you know knowledgeable of themselves. They usually became the black sheep of their families.
Question by Pooja is what can we do if our loved ones, that is spouse, parents, friends are not receptive to…
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Acharya Prashant: Leaving what is not, That is all right, but that leaving is not done with an objective to get joy. Had the thing been so transactional that you could leave one thing and as an exchange offer get another thing, then everybody would have taken the deal. Were…
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Questioner: Good Evening Sir. My name is Tarun Singh from IIM Nagpur. Sir my question is this, actually we understand this thing that in life everything is temporary. Be it my existence on this earth, or any relationship, or my friendship, or any environment around me, everything is temporary. So,…
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Who is most like you? You, yourself. So, be empathetic to yourself first. Then, who is most like you? Your mother, father, siblings; show empathy to them. Then, your neighbors, extended family, and finally, be empathetic to all. Lacking compassion for other conscious beings will only harm you. Kill the animal, and in some way the animal is liberated of its misery, at least in the physical sense. But you, having eaten the animal, will suffer. The flesh keeps you alive, and tomorrow awaits—a dark tomorrow as your punishment.
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Acharya Prashant: The whole issue is because you have left the jungle and yet not reached where you set out to reach; you are stuck in between.
Man is in a very precarious position. Animals are well settled; the free ones, the Buddhas are also well settled. Man is unsettled.…
I don’t know whether you have heard this story from the life of the Buddha. One man was carrying a goat
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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…
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Question: Sir, Do love and Compassion play a role in the process of awakening?
Acharya Prashant: Love and Compassion are not instruments. Love and Compassion are not stuff that can be used as a means or as a method. Awakening, Love, and Compassion are all synonyms. They are…
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Acharya Prashant: When you do not realize, you constantly live in a feeling that you are a separate entity. You are asking, how does self-realization help others?
When you keep feeling that you are a separate entity and that others are separate, that others ‘are’, that there is an ‘otherness’,…
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Veganism cannot succeed if you just keep talking of animals. You keep saying, “Oh, it is bad to look at animals as a commodity. It is bad to exploit animals.” If man is exploiting man, why will man refrain from exploiting animals?
So, veganism has to be holistic, comprehensive. You…
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Before you gain health, must you not gain the wisdom to use health? Unfortunately, with the rise in income levels and the availability of knowledge and food supplements, the average height of human beings are rising across all nations, the average weight of human beings is rising across all nations,…
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Acharya Prashant Ji:
‘Humbleness’ is required, or is meaningful, only in the context of an inflated ego. Because most of us live in stories about ourselves, and those stories cause us a lot of misery, therefore freedom from those stories is needed. A mind…
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I have often and repeatedly said, that to help the other, you have to be a nobody. Now, that sounds quite…
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Question: Acharya Ji, what is the reason which made you go vegan?
Acharya Prashant Ji: The same reason that makes you ask these questions, and makes me answer them – Wisdom, Love, Truth.
One is fettered, one is shackled, and consciousness is one’s only hope – deep, deep consciousness that…
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But such is man’s lot: he cannot do anything selflessly. If he talks of saving the rivers, he says, “Let’s save the rivers so that
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To love is to see that the other is in trouble. To love is to extend a helping hand. Love is not about admiring somebody’s physicality or using someone for some means. Love has to be an exercise in compassion.
Only two kinds of associations are right in this world.…
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Questioner (Q): I have a question related to work. You shared an inspiring story of Guru Kabir and his profession. I want to have the same level of inspiration and energy in my profession. Your teaching has helped me to understand a lot about my concept of work and getting…
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The Present is not an object of thought. To live in the Present, first of all you must know what is really ‘Present’. You know what is meant by Present? What really is ‘Presence’? Living in the Present means living in the Truth, because only
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Consider yourself unshakeable, and see the magic.
Consider yourself little, and everything will be big enough to tease you.
Consider yourself immense, and see whether the world can bully you.
But this thing that I am calling as ‘core belief’ or…
प्रश्नकर्ता: मेरा पक्षियों, जानवरों से बहुत जुड़ाव हो गया है। अब मेरा घर से बाहर निकलना मुश्किल होता जा रहा है क्योंकि अगर कभी कोई कसाईघर या माँस की दुकान दिख जाती है तो मेरी नज़र सीधे मासूम पक्षियों और जानवरों की आँखों पर जाकर टिक जाती है और फिर…
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अराउंड।
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जनरल
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(शुद्ध शाकाहार) पर आपके विचार सुनें। आपकी पुस्तक ‘जाका गला तुम काटिहो’ की प्रतियाँ
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आचार्य प्रशांत: हवस ही नहीं शांत होती दूध पीने की। क्या करोगे दूध पी-पीकर? कौन-सी सेहत चमका ली है? हाँ, सौ तरीके के रोग और पैदा कर लिए हैं उससे। लेकिन एक पूरी इंडस्ट्री खड़ी हो गई है जिसके मुनाफ़े दूध पर आश्रित हैं। तो दूध को बाजार में पुश(धकेला)…
विसडम
(बोध) की, वो आप पर आकर ख़त्म हुई है। मैं बचपन से ही मुझे, मैं गौतम बुद्ध की तरफ़ देखती थी और मुझे वही अनुभव
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प्रश्नकर्ता:
सर, मैं दो बार एवरेस्ट पर चढ़ा हूँ, और जब दो-हज़ार-सोलह में पहली बार चढ़ा तब मैं अपने आहार से पूरी तरह से
वीगन
था, पर मैंने अपने शरीर पर जो जैकेट पहना था वो दुर्भाग्य से बतख़ो के पंखों का था। वो जैकेट, एवरेस्ट के शिखर पर जो
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कमेंट्स
को पढ़ रहा था तो मैंने वहाँ पर देखा कि कई सारी जिज्ञासाएँ थीं, लोगों के सवाल थे, जो मुझे वहाँ मिले और
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प्रश्नकर्ता: मेरा सवाल ये है कि बहुत सारी कहानियों में, जैसे राम और कृष्ण की कहानी हम पढ़ते हैं या कोई और भी। इन अवतारों को बचपन से ही बहुत ऐसे दिखाया जाता है कि इनमें बचपन से ही सारे गुण थे, या ये बचपन से ही अच्छे थे, निपुण…
