We see the craving for what it is, laugh it off once, and soon it is back. The laughter “is lazy and goes off to sleep,” as the talk puts it. We are taught to chase our dreams, yet desire is only the ego’s agenda under another name. “Want is not sacred.” Suffering cannot be wished away either, but we do have a choice in how we live with it. Can we keep laughing at our own wants, and ask where they really come from?
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[From a session on the Bhagavad Gita, Greater Noida, 2026]
Questioner: Acharya Ji, when I look at my past, I can see how my vision was obfuscated due to desires. And I was acting out of desires, and all my decisions were coming out of those desires, and I was not able to see that. After getting in touch with the Gita sessions, the one thing that I’ve gained slightly is the ability to look at myself in that moment. And so when I look at myself, when I compare with my past, right now, when I’m desirous towards a certain object, the one thing that has changed is that I can see that my desire is obfuscating my vision, and I’m not able to see it clearly. I can see that, and I can also see that from where my desire is coming, and I can laugh it off also. But the desire doesn’t go still. And how I handle it right now is that the only thing I can ensure right now is that my actions do not come from that desire. I don’t act out of those desires and be cautious of that. So is that the right way to deal with it, or can the desire...
Acharya Prashant: No, you’re just being lazy. The desire is doing its work. The laughter is lazy and goes off to sleep. As soon as the desire returns, the laughter should also return. So you should be continuously laughing. If the desire is continuous, the laughter must also be continuous. Simple. You cannot laugh at it once and expect it to disappear.
