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दुनिया का सबसे बुरा काम क्या? (चौंक जाएँगे!) || आचार्य प्रशांत (2021)
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Discernment
Karma
Compassion
Attachment
Good and Bad
Mahabharata
Relationships
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses a 32-year-old woman who, despite being taught to be good to everyone since childhood, has consistently received bad in return from friends, family, and others. She feels heartbroken and has lost trust, questioning why this happens when she wishes no harm to anyone. Acharya Prashant begins by questioning her understanding of good and bad deeds and their results. He suggests that what she considers a good deed, like helping someone, speaking kindly, or giving money, might not be truly good. He explains that while actions like scolding, stealing, or hurting someone's feelings are considered bad, the world's worst act is to be good to the wrong person. Doing good to an undeserving person is a greater crime than murder, loot, or corruption. This is because when you are good to the wrong person, you do great harm to yourself by wasting your limited time and energy, which prevents you from being available to the right people. Secondly, you do great harm to the person you are helping by encouraging their wrongdoing and preventing them from improving. He illustrates this with the example of a caterpillar struggling to emerge from its cocoon. If you help it by breaking the cocoon, the caterpillar never becomes a butterfly because the struggle is necessary for its wings to develop. Similarly, he references the Mahabharata, where Dhritarashtra's blind love for his undeserving son, Duryodhana, led to a catastrophic war. The speaker asserts that the principle of Karma dictates that a person must face the consequences of their actions to learn and reform. Shielding them from these consequences is a great disservice. The primary and most important task is to identify and remove the undeserving people from one's life. Only then will space be created for the right people to enter. Acharya Prashant clarifies that most people one encounters are likely undeserving. Therefore, the first task is not to search for the right person but to identify and reject the wrong ones. He provides criteria to identify a wrong person: someone whose presence lowers your level of thinking, pollutes your consciousness, fills you with fear, makes your life complex, or obstructs your mental freedom. He advises against the notion of unconditional love for everyone, stating that love is a precious thing to be given only to the deserving. For the undeserving, the appropriate response is not love but knowledge to help them understand the consequences of their crookedness. The greatest good you can do for a bad person is to let them realize that the result of bad deeds is bad.