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ऐसा लालच करना अच्छा है || आचार्य प्रशांत (2019)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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Greed
Tendencies
Devotion
Shri Krishna
Indian Spirituality
Guru Gobind Singh
Redirection
Divine Virtues
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the question of whether the greed for learning and spiritual growth is acceptable. He explains that human tendencies and instincts, such as greed, anger, and attachment, cannot be entirely suppressed or eliminated. Instead, the spiritual path involves redirecting these innate tendencies toward the divine. He cites the teachings of Guru Gobind Singh, emphasizing that one should maintain a 'greed' for remembering and reciting the virtues of the Truth. By turning one's internal drives toward the ultimate reality, these very tendencies become tools for liberation rather than bondage. He further elaborates that Indian spirituality has masterfully provided various forms of the divine to accommodate every human emotion. If one feels a sense of maternal love, they can worship the child form of Shri Krishna; if one seeks a protector, they can view the divine as a father. By seeing the divine in everything—including trees, rivers, mountains, and even in the form of a mother or a spouse—one ensures that wherever the mind wanders, it encounters only the Truth. Acharya Prashant concludes that when one resolves to use their emotions, like anger, only for matters related to the divine, petty worldly anger naturally dissolves because it loses its object of focus.