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उपनिषदों से संतुष्टि नहीं मिलती || आचार्य प्रशांत (2020)
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Satisfaction
Action
Upanishads
Transformation
Prescription
Discipline
Abstinence
Description

Acharya Prashant responds to a questioner who does not find satisfaction even after watching videos, writing down the content, and reading it repeatedly. He states that it would have been a dangerous thing if she had found satisfaction through these actions. This is precisely what humanity has always done with the Upanishads and all sacred texts: they have listened to them, written them down, memorized them, and become satisfied. He considers it a matter of good fortune that the questioner has been saved from this and is not becoming satisfied. The speaker explains that the teachings are like a prescription from a doctor. One is not supposed to just keep reading the prescription. He asks, how can you be satisfied without paying the price for the medicine, without consuming it with discipline, and without following the prescribed abstinence? Do not hope for any miracle; you have to do it yourself. At most, someone can show you the path, but you are the one who has to walk it. Without doing that, how can you find satisfaction? Where have you acted? Acharya Prashant finds it to be a dangerous sign when someone says they watch his videos all day, because then, when does that person act? He explains that every word he speaks is an inspiration and encouragement for right action. If someone is repeatedly told, "Do not delay even for a moment, pick up your weapon and go to the front," and the listener just says, "Wow, what a great thing you said, say it five more times," it is an insult to the one speaking. The videos are not for entertainment or to be included in one's daily routine; they are meant to cause an explosion in the daily routine. They are a call to change the very foundation of how one is living.