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Life's Purpose
Choice of Action
Attachment
Doership
Climate Change
Salvation
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that man is born on a battlefield and will inevitably have to deal with challenges. It is upon each individual to choose which challenges they deal with. One could either fight several miscellaneous, petty, worthless wars, which are mere skirmishes and squabbles, or one could devote himself to the one mighty project that befits life. If you are not committed to that one single project, it is obvious that your time, attention, and energy will all be dissipated in a thousand directions. You will not even realize, and life would bleed out of you, like a man who has a thousand cuts on his body and bleeds to death. None of those thousand cuts might be significant enough to cause deadly harm on their own, but taken together, they are fatal. In response to a question about destroying sinful and holy actions to attain salvation, Acharya Prashant clarifies that this refers to destroying one's attachment to action and the sense of doership. When you think a particular action can bring you salvation, that action becomes very important, and you become the actor. The destruction of action means the destruction of the actor and doership itself. He advises that one must be very business-minded in spirituality. Instead of focusing on whether an action is labeled as holy or sinful, the basic criterion should be whether it is making your daily life better. Just calling an activity virtuous or religious will not suffice; you must ask what you are getting out of it. Addressing a query about not feeling worried about climate change because its effects seem distant, Acharya Prashant refutes this premise. He asserts that the problem is not in the future; the temperature is already higher than it should be today, and the average life expectancy has already been reduced. He questions the notion of adaptation, pointing out that biological evolution takes millions of years, a timeframe humans will not survive to adapt within. He rhetorically asks if our lungs can adapt to more sulfur dioxide or our brains to lead and arsenic, highlighting the immediate and severe nature of the environmental crisis.