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Fearless action is your nature || Acharya Prashant (2016)
Acharya Prashant
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Ego
Resistance
Truth
Surrender
Fearless Action
Conditioning
Knowledge
Spiritual Circus
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses a questioner's resistance to their current environment, explaining that the mind often offers explanations like the ego to avoid a vacuum. He notes that the ego resists places where it does not find nourishment or validation. When the questioner labels the environment a spiritual circus, Acharya Prashant agrees, stating that the entire world is a circus and no specific place contains the truth. He advises that if one seeks the truth in a particular location, they will only be left wondering; instead, one should either enjoy the circus or leave when it no longer has meaning. Regarding the benefit of nature, Acharya Prashant clarifies that it is just fun and questions the human tendency to speak in the language of deprivation and the need for benefit. He challenges the idea that one can simply reset their own mind, comparing the complexity of the mind to a nuclear power plant or a car's engine chip. He explains that true surrender is the realization that one cannot even perform such a reset. He emphasizes that fear arises from knowledge and beliefs; dropping these allows for fearless action. He defines great action not as something loud or conspicuous, but as an action that is not petty, not driven by fear or greed, and performed without expectation of results.