Acharya Prashant: You can not win the mind, you can not cater to the mind, you can not control the mind. And you are not responsible for everything that this ancient mind does. A thousand squirrels are sitting here, and five hundred monkeys, and the extinct dinosaur, and all the… read_more
Questioner: While writing the questions about our lives, we were silent and it feels very peaceful right now. But how to maintain this silence? How to make sure that this silence holds, that it is not momentary?
Acharya Prashant: It is apparent that this silence is conducive to understanding. It… read_more
Acharya Prashant: A king once asked his favorite painter, the royal painter to paint him the face of the most beautiful individual in the kingdom. So, the painter set out looking for the most innocent face in the kingdom. And he chanced upon a little girl, he chanced upon a… read_more
Acharya Prashant: You are walking along an empty street in the middle of the night—nobody around you, nobody to really disturb you, nobody to talk to you, nobody to point to you, nobody to intercept you, nobody to remind you of anything, and still do you see how much keeps… read_more
Acharya Prashant: Chandogya Upanishad — Chapter 3, part 11, verses 2 and 3:
न वै तत्र न निम्लोच नोदियाय कदाचन । देवास्तेनाहंसत्येन मा विराधिषि ब्रह्मणेति ॥ ३.११.२ ॥
na vai tatra na nimloca nodiyāya kadācana | devāstenāhaṃsatyena mā virādhiṣi Brahmaṇeti || 3.11.2 ||
Never does this happen there; never did… read_more
Questioner: So, do you teach any Sādhanā through which your disciples and followers can access this inner Witness through which they can constantly de-attach themselves from the world which they are experiencing.
Acharya Prashant: Know what you are doing currently, first of all, that’s what is needed. Anything begins when… read_more
आचार्य प्रशांत: आपके और इस आश्रम के बारे में, आपके और संसार के बारे में, आपके और मेरे बारे में, कुछ बातें समझ लेना ज़रूरी है। आप किसी बाहरी जगह पर नहीं आये हैं, लगता ऐसा ही है। पर इंसान की आँखों का कुछ खास भरोसा किया जा नहीं सकता।… read_more
Question: Acharya Ji, Pranaam! People’s faces and vocal tonality show what they mean in actuality. But people like Toohey (one of the principal characters in Ayn Rand’s novel ‘The Fountainhead’) have control on their emotions like an actor. They dumb down our intellect using emotions.
How to recognise such people… read_more
Questioner (Q): Sir, how can we define the ‘inner voice’? We obviously talk to ourselves!
Acharya Prashant (AP): There is no need to define ‘the inner voice’. You just have to see that it too is only just a voice. As there are so many voices all around you, this… read_more
Acharya Prashant: Prasanna (a very young listener) is asking, who is the first-first God in this world? Why am I like this? Why did God make me?
Why did we start today’s session by talking of God? Why are we starting this session by talking of God? It could have… read_more
Love is not a want, and love is not an obligation. Love is not at all related to the world around you. Love is, first and foremost, your own state of being.
Forget that love has to do anything with anybody outside. Forget about loving somebody. Turn inwards, look within,… read_more
Questioner: Pranaam Acharya Ji! A month back I asked a question on ‘numbness’, and how it affects my life. You gave me a good lesson on self-centeredness and explained that if I am not able to do much for myself, then I should start working for others so totally, that… read_more
Question: How to find the right action when the mind is saying aloud: “You should not do this,” or “You have to do this.” One part of the mind is saying, “You have to do this,” other part is saying, “It is okay, you can do that.”
There… read_more
Question: Sir, what can I do to change my lifestyle?
Answer: Lifestyle is just the collection of all the small things you do throughout the day.
To understand your lifestyle, watch daily, continuously, as much as possible:
With whom are you spending time? What is the effect that the company… read_more
Question: Desire is the memory of pleasure, and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. Moments of pleasure are merely gaps in the stream of pain. If our natural state is joy, then why do we slip out of this state?
Speaker: When you have slipped… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: कभी-कभी समझ में नहीं आता कि क्या गलती करी, असफलता क्यों मिली, बदलाव कैसे करूँ, तरक्की कैसे करूँ?
आचार्य प्रशांत: जब समझ में न आये कि गलती कहाँ हुई तब गलती खोजना ही बन्द करो। पूरी प्रक्रिया को दोबारा शुरू करो ऐसे जैसे कि पहली बार कर रहे हो।… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: आपके साइन (हस्ताक्षर) देखें। आप बिल्कुल सरल तरीके से अपना नाम ही हिंदी में लिख देते हैं। तो आप ऐसे साइन क्यों करते हैं?
आचार्य प्रशांत: आपत्ती क्या है? कुछ उसमें गलत दिख रहा है क्या? दो बातें तुमने कहीं। पहली कि सीधे-सीधे अपना नाम लिख देते हैं और… read_more
संजोगु विजोगु दुइ कार चलावहि लेखे आवहि भाग। ~ जपुजी साहिब (नितनेम)
आचार्य प्रशांत: फ़्री विल (मुक्त इच्छा) भी एब्सोल्यूट्ली फ़्री (पूर्णत: मुक्त) है। आपकी जो फ़्री विल है, वो भी इस मामले में तो बाउन्डेड (सीमित) है ही कि वो आपकी नहीं है। जो आपकी इच्छा है वो तो… read_more
आचार्य प्रशांत (आचार्य): जब हम रत्न की बात कर रहे होते हैं और उसकी सफ़ाई करनी है क्योंकि वो मिट्टी में पड़ा था, मैला हो गया है, कीचड़ जम गया है, तो हम कीचड़ की बात ऐसे करते हैं जैसे कि वो कोई बात करने लायक चीज़ ही नहीं है,… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: सर, स्वधर्म क्या है और कहाँ से आता है?
आचार्य प्रशांत: स्वधर्म आपके होने से आता है। कैसे आता है? समझिए। आप जब ‘घर’ में होते हो तो आप कुछ नहीं होते हो। हम कहते हैं न कि तुम ‘घर’ से बिछड़ गए हो। तुम घर से बिछड़ते नहीं… read_more
छात्र: सर, हम अपनी अंतरात्मा की आवाज़ क्यों नहीं सुन पाते? जैसे पहली बार शराब पीने से पहले पता होता है कि गलत है पर रुक नहीं पाते। ऐसा क्यों है?
वक्ता: क्योंकि जो आवाज़ आती है वो सही मायने में अपनी नहीं है। तुम्हें आती है अपनी अंतरात्मा की… read_more
श्रीमद् भगवत गीता प्रथम अध्याय अर्जुन विषाद योग
धृतराष्ट्र उवाच | धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे समवेता युयुत्सवः | मामकाः पाण्डवाश्चैव किमकुर्वत सञ्जय || 1.1 ||
धृतराष्ट्र ने कहा, “हे संजय! धर्मक्षेत्र, कुरुक्षेत्र में युद्ध करने के लिए एकत्रित हुए मेरे पुत्रों और पांडवों ने क्या किया?”
आचार्य प्रशांत: जिज्ञासा से आरंभ हो… read_more
Questioner: If love is death of ego, then loving man will be just soul. So, is love Moksha (Salvation)?
Acharya Prashant: Everything that you just said, is a concept in your mind. Ego lives on concepts; ego lives on thoughts—concepts are thoughts.
What is the definition of a concept? Where… read_more
