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When one has no dreams, interests or happiness left || Acharya Prashant (2017)
Acharya Prashant
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Happiness
Expectations
Fulfillment
Relationships
Kabir Saheb
Love
Understanding
Selfishness
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses a questioner who claims to want nothing from life except happiness, pointing out the inherent contradiction in this statement. He explains that happiness is always dependent on worldly objects; therefore, wanting happiness is equivalent to wanting the entire world. He highlights that people pursue objects only because they believe those objects will provide happiness, making them slaves to desire. He further explains that expectations, whether from oneself or others like parents, are infinite and can never be truly satisfied because expectation itself arises from a perceived lack of fulfillment and is the enemy of actual fulfillment.