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कमाना है, भोगना है, मज़े करने हैं! || आचार्य प्रशांत, आइ.आइ.टी कानपुर के साथ (2020)
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Desire
Fulfillment
Money
Enjoyment
Spirituality
Liberation
Kabir Saheb
Travel
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses a question about earning and spending money to fulfill desires, such as traveling the world, instead of living a stifled life. He explains that a desire is not just for its own fulfillment; its purpose is to make you complete. He uses the example of a desire to hit oneself with a towel; one can fulfill this desire repeatedly, but it does not make the person complete. The fulfillment of the desire and one's own fulfillment are two different things. He points out that while countless desires have been fulfilled in our lives, we remain incomplete. The desire is fulfilled and departs, but we are left behind, still incomplete. This cycle continues because we fail to learn from the deception of desire, which promises fulfillment but leaves us empty. Addressing the specific desire to travel the world, Acharya Prashant questions if it truly brings anything substantial. If it did, then pilots, train drivers, and flight attendants, who travel extensively, would be the most liberated and happy people. He notes that an air hostess travels more than a wealthy person ever could, yet this doesn't guarantee her liberation. The urge to travel the world stems from a feeling of having lost something internally, which one then searches for in external places like Switzerland or Paris. However, what is lost within can only be found within. The entire tourism industry thrives on this misplaced search. He advises to first stop and identify what is truly lost before wandering aimlessly. He further clarifies the idea of living in the present versus thinking about the future. The problem is not that thinking about the future ruins the present; the problem is that the present itself is already flawed and suffocating due to wrong jobs, relationships, and beliefs. The argument to 'enjoy the present' is a justification for this flawed state. One is not truly enjoying but merely dreaming of enjoyment. Spirituality, he explains, is not against enjoyment (mauj); it is the very art of joy (Anand). It is necessary because one is not truly joyful. Quoting Kabir Saheb, he says the true path is one from which there is no coming or going—a one-way journey to liberation, not a return trip. This ultimate journey is internal, not a flight to a foreign destination.