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God-Realisation is a myth || Acharya Prashant (2018)
Acharya Prashant
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Realization
Body-Mind
Prakriti
God
Remembrance
Knowledge
Emotions
Nature
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the seeker's inquiry about the necessity of meditation techniques for realization, clarifying that the concept of God-realization is a myth because God is the underlying basis of existence rather than a character within it. He emphasizes that one cannot realize God; instead, one must realize the facts of their own life, which is currently lived as the body and mind. He explains that everything that can be sensed, experienced, or named—including thoughts, emotions, and intuitions—is part of nature or 'prakriti'. The speaker advises against seeking what lies beyond, as it is inherently beyond knowledge; instead, he urges the seeker to stop treating worldly things, emotions, and social institutions as sacred or unchangeable. He suggests that giving such things the status of the 'beyond' is a mistake, as everything in this dimension is dispensable and replaceable. Acharya Prashant encourages living with a sense of good-humored contempt toward the world and oneself, treating one's own 'somebody-ness' as a joke rather than something to be defended. He concludes that there is nothing to realize other than the immediate reality of the physical body and the world, as the God defined by human concepts does not exist.