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Rediscover Your Passion: Overcoming Disinterest! || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Madras (2023)
Breaking Free
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Vedanta
Satisfaction
Existentialism
Neti Neti
Disillusionment
Atma
Satya
Conditioning
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses a student's sense of disillusionment and loss of interest in life, noting that the student has prematurely reached a conclusion of meaninglessness rather than maintaining a genuine inquiry. He explains that the feeling of boredom and lack of satisfaction arises because the mind tends to settle for easy, shallow answers and repetitive patterns. He emphasizes that the central question of existence—what life is and why we exist—is the most fundamental pursuit in both Indian philosophy and Western existentialism, and one must remain with this question throughout life without settling for easy answers.