🧔🏻‍♂ Want to meet Acharya Prashant? Be a part of the Live Sessions: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/enquiry?cmId=m00026 📄 AP Framework A Comprehensive Account of the Philosophy of Acharya Prashant 🔥 🔗 Read here: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/ap-framework 📚 Want to read Acharya Prashant's Books? Get Free Delivery: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/books?cmId=m00026 📝 Read 3 handpicked wisdom articles, just for you: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/articles?cmId=m00026&l=1 ➖➖➖➖➖➖ #आचार्यप्रशांत #AcharyaPrashant #GriefAndHealing #UnlivedLife #DepthInLife #ShallowLabels #IITHyderabad #ModernPhilosophy#Shakti #WomenEmpowerment Video Information: 01.10.2025, IIT Hyderabad Title : Your Life Feels Empty Because You Call Shallow Things Deep || Acharya Prashant, IIT Hyderabad (2025) Context: - In this video, Acharya Ji explains that grief after losing someone is not truly about the person who died but about all the time and presence that was carelessly wasted while they were still alive. Because human beings refuse to acknowledge death as a constant and present reality, they squander the moments they have with loved ones, and that accumulated waste is what surfaces as grief later. Every living thing is changing and disappearing at every moment, which itself is the nature of death, and accepting this honestly is what transforms how one lives. On the question of finding depth in life, Acharya Ji points out that the deeper problem is that most people have already settled for shallow things and simply given them deep-sounding labels, whether it is relationships, love, education, religion, or personal identity. The ego resists admitting its own emptiness and keeps mislabeling desire as kindness, dependency as love, and cowardice as courage, which is why restlessness and dissatisfaction never truly go away. On the question of purpose, Acharya Ji clarifies that any purpose chosen from a socially handed-down list is not a real purpose at all but simply crowd-borrowed conditioning. A genuine purpose does not come from picking an option off a menu but arises spontaneously when a person deeply understands both their own inner situation and the actual state of the world around them. That kind of knowing does not produce a decision that can be reversed but becomes an unstoppable, effortless action rooted in one's own clarity and courage. ➖➖➖➖➖➖ 🎧 Listen to #AcharyaPrashant on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3f0KFwe... Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~