You already know. There is nobody who does not know || Acharya Prashant (2016)
Question: Is yoga, meditation, and reading of scriptures really necessary?
Acharya Prashant: What else are you doing right now, is this not meditation. Everyday I ask the same question, I have to ask it today as well —how will you meditate while driving your car? And if you can’t meditate while driving your car, then is not meditation worthless? How will you meditate while having sex! Will you put your legs up in the air and say this is some kind of Aasan. And if you can’t meditate in your most intense moments, when else would you meditate?
How will you meditate while taking a shower! How will you meditate while eating! And life is all this or is it not? How will you meditate when you are on the soccer field. Passing the ball to someone and instantaneous reflexes are required from you, how will you meditate? And life is all this. Or will you sit down in the middle of the field to meditate?
How will you meditate while swimming? How? And why don’t you ask these questions, because life is all this, this is life?
L: Food restrictions, are they necessary?
AP: Everything in the world knows what to eat; why do you not know what to eat. The bird knows what to eat, the fish knows what to eat, why you have to be restricted? Because somebody else is there who is unnecessarily forcing you to eat something else. The commercials are there and they are attracting you all the time – new potato chips, new sauce, new dish, new recipes.
