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निंदनीय क्या, संसार या अज्ञान? || आचार्य प्रशांत, अष्टावक्र गीता पर (2013)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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Witness-consciousness
Transience
Mind
Illusion
Five Elements
Suffering
Detachment
Self-realization
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that the world itself is not worthy of condemnation; rather, it is the mind's inability to see the world clearly that is at fault. He uses the classical example of a rope mistaken for a snake to illustrate that the rope has no intention to deceive; the suffering arises from the observer's own lack of understanding. The world is transient and insubstantial, and condemning it is as futile as condemning a shadow. The only thing truly worthy of condemnation is the absence of the witness-consciousness, where the mind remains entangled in illusions without maintaining the necessary distance to observe them objectively.