What would life be without a purpose? || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Acharya Prashant

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What would life be without a purpose? || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Question: Should life be purposeless?

Acharya Prashant: It is purposeless. You tell me where purposes come from. It is not as if it should be purposeless. All shoulds are purposes in themselves. So, when you say, “Life should be purposeless, you have already ascribed a purpose to life.”

Life is already purposeless. Even if you give it a purpose, that purpose stands nowhere. A purpose is just like trying to write your name on the surface of the mountain stream.

Listener 1: Like there should be no destinations to decide where we can go?

AP: Again the ‘should’ is there.

L1: The thing that I want to live my life in totality…

AP: It is not dependent on your want.

L1:

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