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जो जितना होशियार है, वो उतना मूरख होगा || आचार्य प्रशांत, शून्यता सप्तति (बौद्ध दर्शन) पर (2024)
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Truth
Beliefs
Mind
Conditioning
Commitment
Disloyalty
Kabir Saheb
Hsin Hsin Ming
Description

Acharya Prashant begins by recounting an incident from five or seven years ago involving a woman who felt suicidal. She expressed her dilemma poetically, saying, "I cannot be unfaithful, and I cannot live with the one to whom I am faithful." The speaker asked her to explain the matter plainly. The woman, now a doctor, had fallen in love with someone in the sixth grade and they had committed to each other in the seventh grade, considering themselves husband and wife. Now, during her medical studies, she has met a very good man who is suitable in every way. However, she is bound by her childhood commitment. Her childhood love now calls her unfaithful and plays songs about betrayal as his ringtone, which has led her to contemplate suicide. The commitment-bound man is now searching for her with a gun. Responding to a questioner who finds his words contradictory to her pre-existing beliefs, Acharya Prashant explains the mechanism of the mind. He states that to reach the Truth, one must let go of their already collected truths. He uses an analogy of a container representing the mind, filled with various toys and objects, which symbolize our pre-existing beliefs and concepts. These beliefs, such as "I am a loving person" and "I will break the face of anyone from a certain religion or country," are contradictory but coexist within the mind, forming an established system. This system of beliefs, accumulated since childhood from various sources like family, society, and education, acts as a gatekeeper. When new information or a new truth is presented, the mind assesses it based on whether it fits with the existing, settled beliefs. If it doesn't align, it is rejected. The speaker emphasizes that these pre-existing beliefs are not one's own but have been acquired from the outside. He quotes Kabir Saheb, "The world is all false, no one is your own friend. Know the name of Ram, and you will win over the ocean of existence." He also quotes the Zen text Hsin Hsin Ming: "If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind." He concludes that the man of Truth must be perpetually disloyal to the world, meaning one must be willing to discard old beliefs to embrace the real Truth.