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How to be in the world and yet be unaffected by it? || Acharya Prashant (2018)
Acharya Prashant
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Stability
Sensitivity
Ego
Truth
Submergence
Silence
Doership
Detachment
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that stability is not found in isolation but is tested in the presence of distractions. He compares true stability to the eye of a cyclone, where total non-movement exists at the center of a whirling movement. He clarifies that being easily hurt or offended by the world is not sensitivity, but rather a form of ego. True sensitivity is being aligned with the truth, such that any misalignment causes immediate restlessness, similar to a fish being taken out of the ocean. He emphasizes that the ego's rightful desire should be submergence in its source, and one must be restless and impatient to return to that source when separated from it.