Ashtavakra Gita

ज़िन्दगी की किताब कैसे पढ़ें?
ज़िन्दगी की किताब कैसे पढ़ें?
15 min
जो सीखने को तैयार है, उसके लिए तो समूचा अस्तित्व ही गुरू है। पर तुममें पहले सीखने की वो महत् आकांक्षा तो उठे। पहले तुम ये मानो तो, कि जीवन बड़ा सूना है, बड़ा व्यर्थ जा रहा है, तुम्हारे भीतर एक छटपटाहट तो उठे। तुम तो झूठे संतोष में जी रहे हो, तुम तो माने बैठे हो कि ये तो ठीक है, मुझे पता ही है। हाँ! हाँ! ऐसा होना चाहिए, वैसा होना चाहिए, सब ठीक है। मस्त रहो! बस ऐसा है, सन्तुष्ट रहो, “संतोषं परमं धनम्।” जिसमें तड़प नहीं है, उसके लिए तो अध्यात्म की शुरुआत ही नहीं हो सकती।
मुक्त पुरुष और अहंकारी में भेद
मुक्त पुरुष और अहंकारी में भेद
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अहंकार है, कुछ नहीं भी करो तो भी तुम लगे ही हुए हो, रत हो, उद्यमी हो। और नहीं है अगर अहंकार तो जो करना है करो, तुमने तब भी कुछ नहीं किया।अहंकार रहित कर्तृत्व को ही कहते हैं अकर्तृत्व। अकर्ता और कोई नहीं है; अकर्ता और कर्ता में यही अंतर है कि करते दोनों हैं, एक इसलिए करता है कि कुछ मिल जाएगा और एक बस यूँही करता है।
Ashtavakra Gita: Live in the World, Don’t Be Worldly
Ashtavakra Gita: Live in the World, Don’t Be Worldly
4 min
What is the world? You will see the world exactly as you are. As the subject changes so do the world. As the subject becomes lighter and lighter, the world also keeps becoming lighter and lighter. And as the subject dissolves totally, the world too, in its present form dissolves totally.
Don't Discard Opinions, Discard the Opinionated Mind
Don't Discard Opinions, Discard the Opinionated Mind
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नाना मतं महर्षीणां साधूनां योगिनां तथा । दृष्ट्वा निर्वेदमापन्नः को न शाम्यति मानवः ॥

nānā mataṃ maharṣīṇāṃ sādhūnāṃ yogināṃ tathā dṛṣṭvā nirvedamāpannaḥ ko na śāmyati mānavaḥ

Where is that man who having observed the diversities of opinions amongst the seers, sages, and yogis, and thus becoming completely indifferent, does not

How to Identify the Real Master?
How to Identify the Real Master?
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It is not others that you have to be cautious of. You have to be cautious of that within you which gets influenced by others, which does not know others but gets influenced by others. It does not live in knowing. It lives in indoctrination. How to know the real master? See, who is treating your disease. How do you know a doctor? Not by his degrees but by his ability to treat you.
The World of the Worldly Man Hates the Truth
The World of the Worldly Man Hates the Truth
20 min
Look on such things as friends, land, money, property, wife, and bequests as nothing but a dream, a magician’s show lasting three days, five days. Read more....
What Is Meant by ‘Leaving the World’?
What Is Meant by ‘Leaving the World’?
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Acharya Prashant: Leaving what is not, That is all right, but that leaving is not done with an objective to get joy. Had the thing been so transactional that you could leave one thing and as an exchange offer get another thing, then everybody would have taken the deal. Were

The Only Way to Help the World Is to Leave the World Alone
The Only Way to Help the World Is to Leave the World Alone
6 min
The world’s problems are solved by those who do not contribute to those problems. The world’s problems are not solved by those who take the world seriously. The world’s problems are actually solved by those who know that the world does not mean anything; hence they leave the world to itself. Read more....
How to Know that One Is Not the Body?
How to Know that One Is Not the Body?
25 min

Questioner: My question is about the relationships we share with our near ones. I find so many limitations in every relationship I have. What to do in situations where my parents do not understand me? What should I do to make them understand me?

Acharya Prashant: First of all, you

Why are You so Angry Over Yourself?
Why are You so Angry Over Yourself?
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Acharya Prashant: Latha is saying, why does she get angry so often even over small matters? Especially with some people, she is unable to control anger and she says she tried to change her attitude but hasn’t been quite successful. She is saying, now, how to change myself. Because anger

Awaken the Poet within, else Life remains Asleep
Awaken the Poet within, else Life remains Asleep
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Questioner: My question is, why is creativity, like poetry, dying these days? And poetry is a part of literature. And how much contribution of literature is there on the way to Adhyatma?

Acharya Prashant: See, the more you will lose touch with yourself, the more material your world will get.

No Success, Money, or Pious Deeds Will Save You: Rishi Ashtavakra
No Success, Money, or Pious Deeds Will Save You: Rishi Ashtavakra
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You go to a Dattatreya, or a Ribhu, or an Rishi Ashtavakra—they all will be quick to denounce virtues as much as they denounce vices because they focus on the actor and not the action. They focus on the doer and not on the deeds. Because they do not focus on the deeds, so for them, pious deeds are only as good or bad as profane deeds. For them, pious deeds or profanity both belong to the same dimension. They are talking of something beyond that dimension.
Dream and Reality: How the Ego Builds Its False Foundation
Dream and Reality: How the Ego Builds Its False Foundation
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Questioner: Sir, is the root here the ego? And if the ego is without any support, how can it still continue to nourish samsara (world)?

Acharya Prashant: Yes, you could say the root is the ego.

Then you are saying, “If the ego is without any support, how can it

Grace waits only for your consent
Grace waits only for your consent
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, if the decisions that one takes in one’s life is a matter of choice, then what is Grace?

Acharya Prashant: Grace is that which is available free of cost, grace is that which comes to you unconditionally, grace is not something that you receive unconditionally. There’s many

क्या मैं धर्म अनुसार आचरण कर रहा हूँ?
क्या मैं धर्म अनुसार आचरण कर रहा हूँ?
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प्रश्नकर्ता: नमस्ते आचार्य जी। मेरा नाम गवाक्ष जोशी है। मैं आइआइटी कानपुर में पीएचडी का छात्र हूँ। और विद्युत अभियान्त्रिकी विभाग से। मेरा प्रश्न धर्म को लेकर है। मैं हितोपदेश मित्रलाभ पढ़ रहा था! तो एक श्लोक आया था मेरे सामने, जिसका अर्थ ये था — भोजन, निद्रा, भय और

देश दुर्दशा में है - भारत में रहूँ, या छोड़ दूँ?
देश दुर्दशा में है - भारत में रहूँ, या छोड़ दूँ?
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प्रश्नकर्ताः धन्यवाद, सभा में उपस्थित सभी लोगों का अभिनन्दन! मैं डा. कुमार मनोज, मैं आधुनिक चिकित्सा में यूरोप से प्रशिक्षित एक चिकित्सक हूँ। और फिलहाल मैं दिल्ली के एक शासकीय चिकित्सा महाविद्यालय में मनोरोग विभाग में कार्यरत हूँ। मैं जब भारत वापस आया तो मैं अपने भारतीय समाज की सेवा

How to differentiate right thinking from wrong thinking? || Acharya Prashant,on Shri Ashtavakra Gita
How to differentiate right thinking from wrong thinking? || Acharya Prashant,on Shri Ashtavakra Gita
17 min

śuddhamadvayamātmānaṁ bhāvayanti kubuddhayaḥna tu jānanti saṁmohādyāvajjīvamanirvṛtāḥ-Ashtavakra Gita(18-43)

Translation: The stupid one thinks of himself, and lives in the confusion of concepts.The wise one knows himself and lives in the joy of clarity.

Speaker: The question is: If one doesn’t meditate upon the aatman and still be redeemed, then what to

Being Body Conscious? But, You Are Not the Body
Being Body Conscious? But, You Are Not the Body
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देहाभिमानपाशेन चिरं बद्धोऽसि पुत्रक । बोधोऽहं ज्ञानखंगेन तन्निष्कृत्य सुखी भव ॥

dehābhimānapāśena ciraṃ baddho'si putraka bodho'haṃ jñānakhaḍgena tanniṣkṛtya sukhī bhava

O son, you have become habitual of thinking “I am body” since long. Experience the Self and by this sword of knowledge cut that bondage and be happy.

~ Chapter

मंदिरों में जाने के लाभ और नुकसान
मंदिरों में जाने के लाभ और नुकसान
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विहाय चैरिणं काम्मर्थं चानर्थसंकुलं, धर्ममप्येतयोर्हेतुं सर्वत्रादरं करु। ~ अष्टावक्र गीता

अर्थ: जब तक जीवन स्वार्थों के पीछे भाग रहा है तब तक जीवन में आनन्द का होना ना-मुमकिन है।

आचार्य प्रशांत: “विहाय चैरिणं काम्मर्थं चानर्थसंकुलं, धर्ममप्येतयोर्हेतुं सर्वत्रादरं करु।”

‘काम को छोड़कर, जोकि शत्रु है। अर्थ को छोड़कर, जो अनर्थ से

शास्त्र या अहम्: कौन बड़ा है?
शास्त्र या अहम्: कौन बड़ा है?
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आचार्य प्रशांत: क्या करना है, क्या नहीं करना है। क्या होना है, क्या नहीं होना है। दिशा कौनसी लेनी है, नहीं लेनी है इसका निर्णय अहंकार ही करता है। और आप ये नहीं कह सकते कि अहंकार ने अपने लिए गलत निर्णय करा। कोई और देखें, तो कह देगा कि

Truth is not for those who want pleasure || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2019)
Truth is not for those who want pleasure || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2019)
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वाग्मिप्राज्ञामहोद्योगं जनं मूकजडालसम् । करोति तत्त्वबोधोऽयमतस्त्यक्तो बुभुक्षभिः ॥ १५-३॥

vāgmiprājñāmahodyogaṃ janaṃ mūkajaḍālasam । karoti tattvabodho’yamatastyakto bubhukṣabhiḥ ॥ 15-3॥

This awareness of the Truth makes an eloquent, clever and energetic man dumb, stupid and lazy, and therefore Truth is avoided by those whose aim is pleasure. || 15.3 ||

Question: Acharaya

Wise dumbness, Sharp stupidity, Creative laziness || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2018)
Wise dumbness, Sharp stupidity, Creative laziness || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2018)
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वाग्मिप्राज्ञामहोद्योगं जनं मूकजडालसं।

करोति तत्त्वबोधोऽयम-तस्त्यक्तो बुभुक्षभिः॥ 15.३ ॥

vāgmiprājñānamahodyogaṁ janaṁ mūkajaḍālasam karoti

tattvabodho'yamatastyakto bubhukṣabhiḥ || 15.3 ||

This awareness of the Truth makes an eloquent, clever and energetic man dumb, stupid and lazy, so it is avoided by those whose aim is enjoyment.

~ Ashatavakra Gita, Chapter 15, Verse 3

What is the state of the liberated one? || Acharya Prashant, on Ashatavakra Gita (2014)
What is the state of the liberated one? || Acharya Prashant, on Ashatavakra Gita (2014)
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शून्या दृष्टिर्वृथा चेष्टा विकलानीन्द्रियाणि च ।

न स्पृहा न विरक्तिर्वा क्षीणसंसारसागरे ॥ 17.९ ॥

śūnyā dṛṣṭirvṛthā ceṣṭā vikalānīndriyāṇi ca

na spṛhā na viraktirvā kṣīṇasaṃsārasāgare || 17.9 ||

In him for whom the ocean of samsara (world) has dried up, there is neither attachment nor aversion. His gaze is vacant, his

Who is really a wise man? || Acharya Prashant, on Sage Ashtavakra (2014)
Who is really a wise man? || Acharya Prashant, on Sage Ashtavakra (2014)
25 min

prakṛtyā śūnyacitto yaḥ pramādād bhāvabhāvanaḥnidrito bodhita iva kṣīṇasaṁsmaraṇo hi saḥ.

(Ashtavakra Gita 14.1)

Translation: He indeed has his recollections of worldly life extinguished – who becomes void-minded spontaneously, who thinks of sense objects only by chance, and who is, as it were, awake though physically asleep.

Question: Why is it

To take the body seriously is to allow the world to control you || Acharya Prashant on Ashtavakra
To take the body seriously is to allow the world to control you || Acharya Prashant on Ashtavakra
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नाहं देहो न मे देहो बोधोऽहमिति निश्चयी।

कैवल्यं इव संप्राप्तो न स्मरत्यकृतं कृतम्॥ ११.६ ॥

nāhaṃ deho na me deho bodho'hamiti niścayī

kaivalyamiva saṃprāpto na smaratyakṛtaṃ kṛtam

Neither I am this body, nor this body is mine. I am pure knowledge. One who knows it with definiteness gets liberated in

Don’t accompany the thief! || Acharya Prashant, on Jesus Christ and Sage Ashtavakra (2017)
Don’t accompany the thief! || Acharya Prashant, on Jesus Christ and Sage Ashtavakra (2017)
9 min

The thought ‘I am the doer’ is the bite of the poisonous snake.

To know ‘I do nothing’ is the wisdom of faith. Be joyful .

Ashtavakra Gita

(Chapter 1, VERSE 8)

Acharya Prashant: Ashtavakra Gita has been quoted.

“The thought ‘I am the doer’ is the bite of the

Remember by Heart, and let the memory forget || Acharya Prashant, on Shri Ashtavakra Gita (2014)
Remember by Heart, and let the memory forget || Acharya Prashant, on Shri Ashtavakra Gita (2014)
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आचक्ष्व शृणु वा तात नानाशास्त्राण्यनेकशः। तथापि न तव स्वास्थ्यं सर्वविस्मरणाद् ऋते॥

– अष्टावक्र गीता (अध्याय-१६ सूत्र-१)

Translation: Even after hearing from many scholars or reading many scriptures, you will not be established in self, as after forgetting every single thing.

Speaker: The question is: What does ‘forgetting’ imply?

Whatever we

Seeing all change, I stay as I am || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2019)
Seeing all change, I stay as I am || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2019)
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समाध्यासादिविक्षिप्तौ व्यवहारः समाधये । एवं विलोक्य नियमं एवमेवाहमास्थितः ॥ १२-३॥

samādhyāsādivikṣiptau vyavahāraḥ samādhaye । evaṃ vilokya niyamaṃ evamevāhamāsthitaḥ ॥ 12-3॥

Seeing the transitions between abnormal states of incorrect perception and the meditative states as a (natural) rule,

I stay as I am. (12-3)

~ Ashtavakra Gita (Chapter-12, Verse-3)

Question: Acharya

Choicelessness is only for those who choose rightly || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2018)
Choicelessness is only for those who choose rightly || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2018)
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समदुःखसुखः पूर्ण आशानैराश्ययोः समः । समजीवितमृत्युः सन्नेवमेव लयं व्रज ॥ ५-४॥

samaduḥkhasukhaḥ pūrṇa āśānairāśyayoḥ samaḥ । samajīvitamṛtyuḥ sannevameva layaṃ vraja ॥ 5-4॥

Know yourself equal in pain and in pleasure, equal in hope and in disappointment, equal in life and in death, and complete as you are, you can go

What is meant by ‘I am awareness alone’? || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2018)
What is meant by ‘I am awareness alone’? || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2018)
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कूटस्थं बोधमद्वैतमात्मानं परिभावय । आभासोऽहं भ्रमं मुक्त्वा भावं बाह्यमथान्तरम् ॥ १-१३॥

kūṭasthaṃ bodhamadvaitamātmānaṃ paribhāvaya । ābhāso’haṃ bhramaṃ muktvā bhāvaṃ bāhyamathāntaram ॥ 1-13॥

Meditate on this: ‘I am Awareness alone, Unity itself.’ Give up the idea that you are separate, a person, that there is within and without.

~ Ashtavakra Gita

How does the wise one perceive the world? || Acharya Prashant, on Ashthavakra Gita (2018)
How does the wise one perceive the world? || Acharya Prashant, on Ashthavakra Gita (2018)
9 min

निराधारा ग्रहव्यग्रा मूढाः संसारपोषकाः एतस्यानर्थमूलस्य मूलच्छेदः कृतो बुधैः १८ ३८॥

nirādhārā grahavyagrā mūḍhāḥ saṃsārapoṣakāḥ etasyānarthamūlasya mūlacchedaḥ kṛto budhaiḥ 18-38

Translation:

Without any support and eager for the attainment of freedom, the fools only keep up the world!

The wise cut at the very root

The real meaning of meditation || Acharya Prashant, on Sage Ashtavakra (2015)
The real meaning of meditation || Acharya Prashant, on Sage Ashtavakra (2015)
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निःसंगो निष्क्रियोऽसि त्वं स्वप्रकाशो निरंजनः। अयमेव हि ते बन्धः समाधिमनुतिष्ठति॥१-१५॥

~ अष्टावक्र गीता

Translation: You are now and forever free, luminous, transparent, and still. The practice of meditation keeps one in bondage.

~ Ashtavakra Gita (Chapter 1, Verse 15)

Questioner (Q): What is meditation? Why the practice of meditation keeps

The world is a river; use it to cross it||Acharya Prashant,on Jesus Christ and Sage Ashtavakra(2017)
The world is a river; use it to cross it||Acharya Prashant,on Jesus Christ and Sage Ashtavakra(2017)
8 min

Acharya Prashant: Two excerpts are with us.

“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.”

BIBLE

(JOHN 2:15)

“Prosperity, pleasure, pious deeds. Enough! In the dreary forest of the world, the mind finds no rest.”

Going beyond your problems || Acharya Prashant, on Shri Ashtavakra (2016)
Going beyond your problems || Acharya Prashant, on Shri Ashtavakra (2016)
8 min

ज्ञः सचिन्तोऽपि निश्चिन्तः सेन्द्रियोऽपि निरिन्द्रियः। सुबुद्धिरपि निर्बुद्धिः साहंकारोऽनहङ्कृतिः॥ ॥१८- ९५॥

jñaḥ sacinto’pi niścintaḥ sendriyo’pi nirindriyaḥ । subuddhirapi nirbuddhiḥ sāhaṅkāro’nahaṅkṛtiḥ ॥ 18-95॥

The realised one is free of thoughts and worries even in the middle of thoughts and worries. Is free of senses even in the middle of all sensory perception.

Only a Godless mind will be petty || Acharya Prashant, on shri Ashtavakra (2014)
Only a Godless mind will be petty || Acharya Prashant, on shri Ashtavakra (2014)
17 min

यदि देहं पृथक् कृत्य चिति विश्राम्य तिष्ठसि।

अधुनैव सुखी शान्तो बन्धमुक्तो भविष्यसि॥

– अष्टावक्र गीता (१.४)

Translation: If you detach yourself from the body and rest in consciousness, you will become content, peaceful and free from bondage immediately.

Question: How to detach oneself from the body?

Speaker: We remember the

What is knowledge and what is ignorance? || Acharya Prashant, on Shri Ashtavakra (2016)
What is knowledge and what is ignorance? || Acharya Prashant, on Shri Ashtavakra (2016)
15 min

Question: Ashtavakra Gita, chapter 16 verse 1:

Son! Even if you read many scriptures many times, or you listen to them, yet you will not attain to your nature until and unless you forget all of them.”

Acharya Prashant : The mind proceeds on its spiritual pursuit, because it

What is stillness of mind? || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2016)
What is stillness of mind? || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2016)
32 min

सुखे दुःखे नरे नायाॆं संपत्सु विपत्सुच ।

विशेषो नैव धीरस्य सर्वत्र समदर्शिनः।।

अष्टावक्र गीता ।।१७-१५।।

For the one of still mind, for the one of equanimous vision, there is no difference between pleasure and pain, Man and woman, good luck and bad luck, circumstantial happiness and circumstantial sadness.

Ashtavakra Gita,

Your liberation depends on you, just as your bondages do|| Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2019)
Your liberation depends on you, just as your bondages do|| Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2019)
9 min

निर्वासनं हरिं दृष्ट्वा तूष्णीं विषयदन्तिनः ।

पलायन्ते न शक्तास्ते सेवन्ते कृतचाटवः ॥ 18.४६ ॥

nirvāsanaṃ hariṃ dṛṣṭvā tūṣṇīṃ viṣayadantinaḥ

palāyante na śaktāste sevante kṛtacāṭavaḥ

Seeing the desireless lion, the elephants of the senses silently run away, and if that is impossible, serve him like courtiers.

~ Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter 18,

Is ego pride? What is enlightenment? || Acharya Prashant (2019)
Is ego pride? What is enlightenment? || Acharya Prashant (2019)
9 min

Questioner (Q): Is ego pride? What is enlightenment?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Ego is the ‘I’-feeling that causes you suffering.

Pride causes you suffering, but it is not merely pride that causes you suffering: even the opposite of pride causes you suffering. Taking yourself as too big will cause suffering, but

Ignorance is to believe that you are someone separate from the One || Acharya Prashant,on Ashtavakra
Ignorance is to believe that you are someone separate from the One || Acharya Prashant,on Ashtavakra
3 min

तवैवाज्ञानतो विश्वं त्वमेकः परमार्थतः।त्वत्तोऽन्यो नास्ति संसारी नासंसारी च कश्चन॥

It is through your ignorance alone that the universe appears to exist. In reality you are the One. Other than you there is no individual self or supreme Self.

~ Ashtavakra Gita (Chapter 15, Verse 16)

Questioner: What is meant by

जब लगे कि नाइंसाफ़ी हुई है आपके साथ || आचार्य प्रशांत (2023)
जब लगे कि नाइंसाफ़ी हुई है आपके साथ || आचार्य प्रशांत (2023)
46 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: प्रणाम, आचार्य जी। मेरा पहला प्रश्न ये है, हमनें चोट के बारे में बात कही, तो मैं अपने अनुभव में जो देखती हूँ मुझे ऐसा लगता है कि जब भी मुझे चोट लगती है उसके साथ एक और भाव जो साथ में ही उठता है वो होता है कि

जैसे आप, वैसा आपका संसार - दूसरों की शिकायत करना बंद करें || आचार्य प्रशांत (2024)
जैसे आप, वैसा आपका संसार - दूसरों की शिकायत करना बंद करें || आचार्य प्रशांत (2024)
37 min

आचार्य प्रशांत: एक स्कूल था बच्चों का, छोटे बच्चे आते थे वहाँ एकदम। छोटे बच्चे आये वहाँ, खड़े हो और बड़े अपनेपन से और बड़े नाज़ से बोले, 'ये हमारा स्कूल है।' एक दिन वहाँ कुछ जंगली जानवर आ गये। उनको खबर मिल गयी थी कि यहाँ छोटे-छोटे बच्चे रहते

तुम्हारा स्वरुप क्या? तुम्हें विश्राम कहाँ?
तुम्हारा स्वरुप क्या? तुम्हें विश्राम कहाँ?
23 min

कुत्रापिन जिहासास्ति नाशो वापि न कुत्रचित्।

आत्मारामस्यधीरस्य शीतलाच्छतरात्मनः॥

~ अष्टावक्र गीता (अध्याय १८ , श्लोक २३)

अनुवाद: जिसका अंत:करण शीतल एवं स्वच्छ है, वो आत्माराम है। उस धीरपुरुष की न तो किसी वस्तु के त्याग की इच्छा होती है, और न तो कुछ पाने की आशा।

प्रकृत्या शून्यचित्तस्य कुर्वतोऽस्य यदृच्छया।

सारा संसार कहाँ से आया? कहाँ को जा रहा है? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2021)
सारा संसार कहाँ से आया? कहाँ को जा रहा है? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2021)
21 min

आचार्य प्रशांत: हम एक भूत, माने एक पदार्थ की उत्पत्ति का कारण सदा दूसरे पदार्थ को मानते हैं और बात निपटा देते हैं। भूत माने मैटेरियल , भौतिक पदार्थ। जब आप एक भूत की उत्पत्ति का कारण दूसरे भूत को मानते हो और दूसरे की उत्पत्ति की वजह तीसरे को

समय: एक विशेष सत्र, मात्र गंभीर जिज्ञासुओं के लिए || आचार्य प्रशांत कार्यशाला (2023)
समय: एक विशेष सत्र, मात्र गंभीर जिज्ञासुओं के लिए || आचार्य प्रशांत कार्यशाला (2023)
83 min

आचार्य प्रशांत: स्वागत है! और मेरी मेज़ पर ये दोनों रीडिंग्स (पठन सामग्री) रखी हुई हैं जो आपको दी गयी थीं पढ़ने के लिए। तो कितने लोग हैं जो इसमें से कम-से-कम आधी सामग्री पढ़ पाये? आधी भी जिन्होंने पढ़ ली हो वो बता दें। (कुछ श्रोता हाथ उठाते हैं)

क्या आप आचार्य प्रशांत की गीता कम्यूनिटी [इस सदी का एक अद्भुत आध्यात्मिक प्रयोग] के भाग हैं?
क्या आप आचार्य प्रशांत की गीता कम्यूनिटी [इस सदी का एक अद्भुत आध्यात्मिक प्रयोग] के भाग हैं?
2 min

आचार्य प्रशांत की गीता कम्यूनिटी इस सदी का एक अद्भुत आध्यात्मिक प्रयोग है।

आचार्य प्रशांत के यूं तो सोशल मीडिया इत्यादि पर तीन करोड़ से अधिक फॉलोवर और तीस करोड़ से अधिक श्रोता हैं, परंतु गीता कम्यूनिटी कुछ अलग ही बात है। इसमें मात्र वे गंभीर साधक सम्मिलित हैं

जिसकी ओर बढ़ रहे हो, उसे दिल में बसाकर बढ़ना || आचार्य प्रशांत, बाबा बुल्लेशाह पर (2019)
जिसकी ओर बढ़ रहे हो, उसे दिल में बसाकर बढ़ना || आचार्य प्रशांत, बाबा बुल्लेशाह पर (2019)
14 min

बुल्लिआ हिजरत विच्च इस्लाम दे मेरा नित्त है खास आराम। नित्त नित्त मराँ ते नित्त नित्त जीवाँ मेरा नित्त नित्त कूच मुकाम।

मैं भी हज़रत पैगम्बर की तरह हिज़रत करता हूँ, यात्रा करता हूँ, लेकिन मेरी यात्रा ऐसी है जो तब शुरु होती है, जब मैं बिलकुल शान्त, आराम, विश्राम

आत्मा न तो शरीर में रहती है, न शरीर का आत्मा से कोई संबंध है || आचार्य प्रशांत, अष्टावक्र गीता (2023)
आत्मा न तो शरीर में रहती है, न शरीर का आत्मा से कोई संबंध है || आचार्य प्रशांत, अष्टावक्र गीता (2023)
3 min

◾ एक ही जाति होती है - वह है "बल"। बल विकसित करो अपने भीतर।

◾ आत्मा का इस पूरे देह व्यापार से कोई लेना देना ही नहीं।

◾ मिथ्याचारी वह है जो आगे के लालच में अच्छा काम करता है।

◾ आत्मा का विकृत सिद्धांत ही भारत की दुर्दशा

न पकड़ना, न छोड़ना
न पकड़ना, न छोड़ना
22 min

यदा नाहं तदा मोक्षो

यदाहं बन्धनं तदा।

मत्वेति हेलया किंचिन्-

मा गृहाण विमुंच मा॥८- ४॥

अनुवाद: जब तक 'मैं' या 'मेरा' का भाव है तब तक बंधन है, जब 'मैं' या 'मेरा' का भाव नहीं है तब मुक्ति है। यह जानकर न कुछ त्याग करो और न कुछ ग्रहण ही

क्या है जो कभी नहीं बदलता? || अष्टावक्र गीता पर
क्या है जो कभी नहीं बदलता? || अष्टावक्र गीता पर
8 min

न दूरं न च सङ्कोचाल्लब्धमेवात्मनः पदम्। निर्विकल्पं निरायासं निर्विकारं निरञ्जनम्॥

आत्मा का स्वरुप न दूर है, न निकट। वह तो प्राप्त ही है, तुम स्वयं ही हो। उसमें न विकल्प है, न प्रयत्न है, न प्रकार है और न मल।

~ अष्टावक्र गीता, अध्याय १८, श्लोक ५

आचार्य प्रशांत: "आत्मा