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Only for genuine lovers of Truth || Acharya Prashant, Vedant Mahotsav (2022)
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Listening
Spiritual Seeker
Source
Self-knowledge
Simplification
Yoga
J. Krishnamurti
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that his advice applies to those who have been involved in the spiritual process and wisdom literature for a significant time. He describes two levels of listening. The first level, for beginners, is like receiving a drug from a pharmacist; one takes it, experiences it, and benefits. For most people, this is sufficient. The second level is for serious seekers who need to go beyond merely liking or enjoying the speaker's words. They must want to know what the 'drug' truly is and come to the place from which it originates. To illustrate this deeper level of seeking, the speaker uses an analogy: it is one thing to have a pizza served to you and relish it, but it is another to enter the kitchen, go to the fields, and examine the very seed from which it came. For a serious seeker, it is no longer sufficient to just experience what the speaker is saying; one must come to the point from which the speaker is speaking. This requires one to not just be a consumer of content but to probe the process behind the words. The speaker's job is to simplify the highest truths to make them accessible, but this simplification can be deceptive, making the profound appear ordinary. To engage more deeply, one should pause the video, make notes, and connect different points to see the underlying unity, which he describes as a 'tight mathematical equation.' The same video is designed to work on multiple levels. For a casual watcher, it might be basic storytelling that prepares them for a deeper understanding later. However, for a serious seeker, the same content holds the deepest spiritual fundamentals. Even a joke from the speaker might be an 'Upanishadic joke,' and a serious seeker must go into its depths. This deeper approach involves discovering the raw material from which the processed words come. This process requires asking oneself, "Why am I not able to see this?" which leads to the clearing of inner 'cobwebs' or obstructions. This is self-knowledge. The speaker emphasizes that one cannot remain as they are and still come close to the source. This journey towards the source, this unison, is what he calls love and Yoga.