प्रश्नकर्ता: सर, मन शान्त नहीं है। सवाल तो है नितनेम से पर उन सवालों के जवाब ले पाऊँ, ऐसी मैं नहीं हूँ। सवाल लिखूँगी तो बेईमानी हो जाएगी। माफ़ करिएगा।
आचार्य प्रशांत: आदमी का कर्ता भाव बड़ा सघन होता है। ‘मैं’ सवाल लिख रही हूँ। ‘मैं’ जवाब सुनूँगी। ‘मैं’ जवाब… read_more
The world is a habit, but drugs are a worse habit. The one who is finding refuge in drugs is fed up of the usual stuff of consciousness, that is certain, but he is taking a very wasteful route. It’s like feeling cold in Delhi in the month of December… read_more
Acharya Prashant: The four yugas in the Vedic tradition have been Satyug, Treta, Dvapara, and Kaliyug. Now, what do they represent? Do they represent the passage of time? Do they represent something historical? We have been led to believe that way, right? We believe that time is something external that… read_more
Questioner: So, the thing is, we have already decided to go on a path of whatever we want to achieve, and I am sure of it that okay, I like this, I am interested in it, and suddenly due to some of the other reasons, I feel am I on… read_more
Acharya Prashant: You must never be afraid of questioning others. More importantly, you must never be afraid of questioning yourself. The second part is tougher. It is easy to question others, relatively easy at least. Questioning oneself hurts the ego, but that’s what one must practice.
Question yourself: “What am… read_more
आचार्य प्रशांत: गलत-सही का निर्धारण बस एक चीज़ से होता है — आप आंतरिक तौर पर हल्का अनुभव कर रहे हैं कि नहीं कर रहे हैं। इसी से समझ लीजिए न (पानी का गिलास उठाकर)। अगर इसकी आदत है अपने में जोड़ते ही रहने की, चिपकते ही रहने की, तो… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: जो इतने वर्षों में सीखा, घर में रहकर, दोस्तों के साथ, शिक्षा में, उसका बल इतना है कि लगता है कि वो गलत है — ये मैं अपना एक प्रोजेक्शन (प्रक्षेपण) कर रहा हूँ; गलत लगता तो छोड़ ही देता — लेकिन बल इतना है कि उसको गिराने के… read_more
Questioner: You have said that individual liberation is not possible: that either we go together, or nobody can go. So, we have to help others to cross over. But I can’t help even the people close to me; they are caught up in routine work or indulge in entertainment; no… read_more
Question: If a student has to select a stream after class twelfth and he is interested in both medical and engineering, how does he select the stream without thinking about the future?
Speaker: See, the problem is that we make our choices by looking at the future. We make our… read_more
Listener : Why is there confusion in the mind?
Speaker : What is confusion? Confusion is conflict. Confusion is the presence of many options and your inability to know. Confused, there are so many things and they are tangled together, they are fused together. That’s what confusion is.
We said… read_more
Question: Can this happen that ‘I don’t know and I don’t even want to know, and that there will always be something more to know’? Can this happen that a person thinks that ‘I am so peaceful that I don’t even want to know’?
Shri Prashant: You see, these are… read_more
Question: Sir, as you said right now that when I am really here, then there is no opportunity for restlessness. But when I am really here, a restlessness, an inner thirst, is there. And this thirst is unbearable.
Shri Prashant: No, you call that restlessness. It is never there on… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: नमस्कार आचार्य जी! ये मेरा पहला सत्र है आपके साथ में, और पहली बार भी। बात करने का मौक़ा भी मिल गया। तो मैं बहुत खुश हूँ इस बात को ले के। सवाल इस प्रकार जब मैं आयी थी यहाँ पर तो मैं लेकर नहीं आई थी। मेरा एकमात्र… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता नमस्ते सर, आज की बातचीत थोड़ी कॉन्ट्रोवर्शियल (विवादित) होने वाली है
आचार्य प्रशांत: कोई बात नहीं होती रहती है कॉन्ट्रोवर्शी।
प्र: मैं आपसे गुरुओं के ऊपर बात करना चाहता हूँ और इस पूरी बात की शुरुआत आज से दस या बारह साल पहले से होती है।
आचार्य: क्या हुआ… read_more
प्रश्नकर्ता: प्रणाम, आचार्य जी। पहले मैं आपको बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद देता हूँ कि मैं आपको लगभग छह महीने से मैं सुन रहा हूँ और मुझे बहुत फ़ायदा हुआ है।
मैं आगे बढ़ते हुए पूछना चाहता हूँ कि हमें हमेशा कुछ-न-कुछ चुनाव करना होता है कि ये करें या तो ये करें।… read_more
आचार्य प्रशांत: पूछते हैं कि युवा हूँ और अपने जीवन में कई अलग-अलग पहलुओं को पाता हूँ। फिर इनके जीवन में वो अलग अलग पहलू क्या है, उसकी छोटी सी सूची दी है। तो एक पहलू है पढ़ाई और कैरियर का। अगला है गर्लफ्रेंड और प्रेम प्रसंगों का। फिर अगला… read_more
आचार्य प्रशांत: (प्रश्नकर्ता का प्रश्न पढ़ते हुए) आचार्य जी! मैं लोगों से बहुत जल्दी प्रभावित हो जाता हूँ। किसी की बात से या किसी ने कहा कि देश के लिए कुछ करना चाहिए तो बात ठीक लगती है। किसी ने कहा गरीबों की मदद करो, तो मान लेता हूँ। पर… read_more
आचार्य प्रशांत: जब भी कभी मन में ये प्रश्न आये कि आचार्य जी क्या करूँ, किसी भी सन्दर्भ में जब ये प्रश्न आये, ठीक है? वो किस्सा कुछ भी हो सकता है। वो ये भी हो सकता है कि पुरानी गाड़ी अब हटाकर नयी गाड़ी लेनी है। वो ये भी… read_more
सर्वभावं न सन्देह : सर्वं नास्ति न संशय:। सर्वं तुच्छं न सन्देह : सर्वं माया न संशय:।।
All is thought. There is no doubt of this. All is not. And there is no doubt of this. All is trifling. And there is no doubt of this. All is illusion. And … read_more
Question: What is absent mindedness?Answer: Absent mindedness is mind being anywhere. Whenever you are occupied with anything, it is absent mindedness. Any act of focus, concentration, having ‘something’ as important in mind, becoming a subject,all these are acts of absent-mindedness. Mind busy with any object is absent-mindedness.
Mind busy… read_more
You are fantasizing: “When I meet that man, such and such great things will happen. And now we are having coffee, and now we are watching the movie, and the movie is wonderful”—and the entire three-hour movie you are visualizing.
What is at the basis of this entire fantasy? That… read_more
Your action has to be one with the Truth. Let wisdom guide your action. That’s Yoga of Wisdom. What is the other kind of action? Prescribed action.
Each of us, in each moment, has to make this choice. Where is your action going to come from? Is it going to… read_more
Strength is your nature. If you have managed to remain so weak, so fragile, so brittle for so long, it is only because you have been defending your weaknesses. You have been arguing in favor of your weaknesses; you have been reasoning out your weaknesses. You have simply not been… read_more
There are people who indeed say that, “No, everything is fine with us.” They are not lying. It’s just that their fineness is superficial.Yes, there is fineness in your life, but that fineness is just this deep: scratch the surface and the fineness will evaporate. A little tragedy hits you… read_more
Questioner (Q): We encounter these nodes in the path of our lives where we have to make decisions. The majority of us have a lot of duties associated with our life, and these duties also come with some demands associated with how we must act. For example, right now I… read_more
Question: If one lives in stories, the stories that are conversations with oneself, how does one get out of them?
Acharya Prashant Ji: Check! Check!
All your stories are about objects in the universe. Your stories have no fresh elements at all. All the actors, all the players, all the … read_more
A certain word falls upon your ears and there is an instant reaction, is there not? Your entire body can get heated up. One word falling on your ears can raise your temperature by two degrees within two minutes. Is it not a chemical reaction?
This body is a bunch… read_more
I’ll tell you what the rape of the mind is. When the mind has nonsensical purposes, that is rape of the mind. When things like stuff that happened in the childhood or teenage attracts you and dominates you, then the mind is being raped. Forgive me the clichéd expression, but… read_more
Were our bodies to reflect accurately and honestly the state of our minds, none of us would have been able to walk firmly even for a distance of ten meters. Our legs would have shown up as cut, wounded, bruised, fractured the way, exactly the way our mind is.
Unfortunately,… read_more
Even in those situations that we call as utterly woeful, utterly hopeless, if we just do that which we are capable of doing, would there be space and opportunity and time to despair? If you do what you must, where is the time to suffer?
In fact, the more impossibly… read_more
Gynaecology is psychology. Where else does the whole thing come from? And it’s not as if I am talking exclusively of women; with the men it’s just the same.
This entire body is just genitals expressing themselves in various forms. One part of genitals you call as genitals; the other… read_more
As long as you are living a socially adjusted and internally compromised life, as long as you are living resigned to your limitations, even your agony is limited. There won’t be much even in your sadness. You will cry for a while and then the moment somebody shows you some… read_more
Questioner: Sir, it is told to us that options create confusion in one’s life. But wherever we go, whatever we want to do, we have to search for options. Why?
Acharya Prashant: The question, rather this statement has to be clearly understood.
‘Options create confusion.’
What it means is that… read_more
Question: I want to know why the world is at the moment so harsh?
Acharya Prashant: There is nothing that one group, one community or one person experiences that the other has never experienced or is not experiencing even to the slightest degree. Fundamentally we are all one. As human… read_more
Look at the stats released by the Durex company; it manufactures condoms. In the Valentine’s Day week, sales of condoms spike by twenty to thirty percent. And then there are the stats available from the medical organizations: March is the peak month for termination of pregnancy.
So, love is not… read_more
Questioner (Q): I have discovered that being a little altruistic, a little selfless makes me feel that I am elevating my consciousness. That is what works for me. But one problem associated with this is the problem of the violation of boundaries. So, suppose I want to help a person… read_more
We are brilliant artists—makeup artists. We are adept in calling false happiness as happiness. We pretend to be happy when we are not even happy, and all of us know fully well what I am talking of. Go to your social media pages and you will see what we are… read_more
Question: Acharya Ji, if Liberation is the ultimate destiny, why don’t we get it naturally?
Acharya Prashant Ji: Liberation is Freedom, right? Liberation is Freedom. So you are free to not to be free. You are already Liberated.
It is because you are Liberated, that you can choose to remain… read_more
Questioner (Q): In spite of being fully aware of the consequences, why do people engage in self-harming behavior? Why do people stay in toxic marriages, relationships, friendships, get into addictions, do substance abuse, or get into other miscellaneous self-harming activities?
Acharya Prashant (AP): See, nobody engages in self-harm knowing fully… read_more
You want the other person to be nice. We are such idiots. We want the other person to be nice. And if the other person is not nice, we feel there is no love. We do not understand anything. We are prepared to give up our life probably when somebody… read_more
Pain is due and legitimate. You will have pain. Now live through it like a man.
What is suffering? Suffering comes only when you start espousing the flawed concept that life must be pain-free. When you start feeding that concept, when you start nourishing and identifying with that concept that… read_more
You might be twenty-five today; where is the one who was twenty yesterday? Isn’t he gone? How can you stop the other from departing when you couldn’t prevent even your own old self from departing?
Remember your old self, the one that was there at the age of five, ten,… read_more
All powerlessness is just a pretense. Even in your feeblest moment, you are still powerful enough to exercise choice, and you must always hold this very close to your heart.
The world can take anything, everything away from you, but nothing and nobody ever can take away from you your… read_more
