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दुनिया इतनी बुरी क्यों है? ईश्वर हमारे अंदर है या बाहर? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2016)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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God
Good and Evil
Swadharma
Truth
Mind
Brahman
Awareness
Right Action
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Acharya Prashant addresses the common dilemma of why evil exists if God runs the world. He explains that there are two perspectives: one that doubts God because of perceived evil, and another that understands that if God runs the world, nothing can truly be evil. He asserts that 'good' and 'bad' are human constructs based on personal conditioning and ego. What suits one's desires is labeled good, and what causes pain to the ego is labeled bad. These scales of judgment change with time and place, yet humans use them to judge the entire existence. He suggests that everything is 'just' as it is, and labeling it does not change its reality. Instead of judging, one should focus on right action in the present moment. Regarding religion, Acharya Prashant distinguishes between organized, formal religion and 'Swadharma' or personal religion. He explains that because every individual's mind is structured differently, their path to truth must also be unique. He references Shri Krishna's advice to Arjun, emphasizing that what was right for Arjun in the battlefield was not necessarily right for others. True religion is knowing the action that arises from and leads toward the truth. No scripture or external authority can tell an individual exactly what to do; it can only point out what is false. The realization of one's own right action must come from one's own inner awareness. On the nature of God, he clarifies that God is neither inside nor outside the individual. The distinction between 'within' and 'without' is a mental construct based on the physical boundary of the body. Both 'inside' and 'outside' are concepts of the mind. God, or Brahman, is the very foundation of the mind from which everything arises. He also discusses the experience of questions dissolving in a state of presence. He notes that when the mind is truly eager for truth, questions often vanish on their own because they are like a mental disturbance. This transformation and the emergence of one's hidden nature in a state of awareness is a natural process of being in the presence of truth.