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Are you eligible to read the scriptures? || Acharya Prashant, on Yogvashishta (2016)
Acharya Prashant
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Liberation
Suffering
Scriptures
Upanishads
Ego
Grace
Truth
Buddha
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Acharya Prashant explains that the eligibility to study spiritual scriptures is reserved for those who acknowledge their suffering and possess a deep desire for liberation. He clarifies that neither the totally ignorant nor those who claim to already know the truth are qualified. The speaker emphasizes that suffering is not the natural state of being; if it were, one would not feel the pain of it. Therefore, the feeling of hurt is actually an invitation from the divine toward freedom. He notes that while everyone suffers, many suppress or mislabel their suffering as duty, love, or responsibility, thereby disqualifying themselves from spiritual progress. Acharya Prashant categorizes the mind into three types based on their attitude toward suffering. The first type claims to be 'all right' and ignores their obvious distress, while the second type accepts suffering as an unchangeable destiny. The third, minuscule category consists of those who acknowledge the factual evidence of their suffering but maintain a mystical, transcendental hope for liberation. He concludes that spirituality is intended for this third group—those who are honest enough to see the facts of their life yet possess the 'third mystical eye' to believe that suffering can end.