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Rediscover Your Passion: Overcoming Disinterest! || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Madras (2023)
Acharya Prashant
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Vedanta
Existentialism
Neti Neti
Satisfaction
Boredom
Self-Inquiry
Truth
Consciousness
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses a student's sense of purposelessness and loss of interest in life, noting that the student has prematurely reached a conclusion of nihilism rather than asking a genuine question. He explains that the feeling of 'what is the point' often arises because the mind settles for easy, shallow answers instead of engaging in deep inquiry. He emphasizes that the central question of existence—what life is and who the living one is—is the most fundamental pursuit in both Indian philosophy and Western existentialism, and one must remain with this question throughout life without settling for easy conclusions.