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शांति अगर किसी खास माहौल में ही मिलती हो तो || आचार्य प्रशांत (2019)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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Peace
Awareness
Guru
Body-consciousness
Truth
Satsang
Meditation
Illusion
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the common struggle of maintaining peace and awareness outside of a spiritual gathering. He explains that people often mistakenly link their sense of peace to physical objects, specific locations, or the physical presence of the Guru. This dependency arises from a deep-seated habit of seeking comfort in material forms and sensory experiences. When a person is in the presence of the Guru's physical body, they feel calm, but this peace vanishes as soon as they leave because they have equated the Guru with a mere physical entity. He emphasizes that the Guru is not a body that appears and disappears, but a subtle presence that can be carried everywhere. The speaker points out that the difference between the 'inner' peace of the satsang and the 'outer' chaos of the world is a self-created illusion. He argues that individuals are responsible for creating this distance. The belief that one can only be in one place at a time is a limitation derived from identifying with the body. When people project this bodily limitation onto the Guru, they feel they are outside the Guru's 'jurisdiction' once they leave the hall. Acharya Prashant asserts that truth is non-special and universal; by making it 'special' or confined to a specific time and place, one inevitably suffers when away from that setting. Finally, he highlights that the discipline and silence observed during the session are results of the participants' own decisions and perceptions, not a miracle performed by the Guru. He observes that people choose to be peaceful in the hall but then choose to engage in noise and mental disturbances outside. He urges the listeners to drop the egoistic notion that truth is limited to certain forms or places. To live in constant peace, one must transcend the 'body-consciousness' and realize that the same silence and innocence displayed during the discourse can be maintained everywhere if one chooses to let go of old mental patterns and false assumptions.