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Has the Gita not helped you? Here is the reason. || Acharya Prashant (2023)
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Bhagavad Gita
Shri Krishna
Price of Truth
Dhritarashtra
Negation
Wholeness
Dharma
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Acharya Prashant explains that one cannot benefit from knowledge without being prepared to pay the price for it. He uses the analogy of a car showroom: one can be shown the best car, take a test drive, and have all questions answered, but cannot take the car home without paying. Similarly, while the Gita was demonstrated to many, including Dhritarashtra, only Arjun benefited because he was willing to pay the immense price of slaughtering his kith and kin. The instruction to Arjun was to fight, regardless of who survives. What one gets in life depends on the price one is willing to pay, not on what one likes or what is presented. Life is like a supermarket where everything is available, but you only get what you pay for. In response to a question about finding the right center for wholeness, Acharya Prashant advises a practical approach of negation. Instead of defining the right center, which can be figurative like Dharma or Krishna, one should keep discarding false or weak centers. A center is false if it proves incapable of holding the mind together and providing lasting integrity. The true center should be so compelling and beautiful that one cannot defy it. Life should be an unending journey of learning, betterment, and dissolution. He encourages having the stamina for a lifelong marathon without seeking quick conclusions or easy endings. He illustrates this with an analogy: when a train reaches its destination, one gets off. To claim to have reached a final point is to end the journey of life itself. It is alright to be on the journey. The purpose of the mind, like the heart that continuously pumps blood, is to keep thinking and traveling on this journey. There is no need to reach a conclusion or 'The End'.