What is the most beautiful thing you can think of? And why is it not worth committing yourself to if it is indeed high and beautiful? Give yourself totally to it. And then even if you have to go to Netflix etc. you'll go with a purpose. It's not some kind of a heinous crime to watch videos or something but you will remember the purpose. You're not going there to waste your precious time. Even there, the mind somewhere is remembering what the purpose is.
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Questioner: When I'm trapped in addiction, for example, if I'm addicted to smoking or I'm addicted to watching videos. What I have got from your previous answer is it's through valor and through intelligence but it becomes more hard when I'm trapped in my addictions. Can you help me with this, where the addictions are involved.
Acharya Prashant: You have to first of all, respect the fact of your addictions. They are doing you some good. Those things you are addicted to, exist because you have nothing better in your life. Understand this. No point just cursing one's addictions. Addictions exist to fill a deep inner void. You have a need to be addicted and that's why those things exist. Be it— whatever TV shows or videos or drugs or many, many other things one can be addicted to. So they didn't plead to you to let them into your life. You went to those things.
The videos don't just suddenly pounce at you from your mobile screen after midnight. You must be clicking at the application and scrolling through the list of videos and then choosing one particular video and then choosing another and binge watching and so you are the one who is going to those things. Why are you going to those things?
