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अभिनेताओं और खिलाड़ियों का हमारे जीवन में कितना महत्व हो? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2020)
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Entertainment
Celebrities
Wrong Life
Meaningful Life
Role Models
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ramana Maharshi
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Acharya Prashant addresses the question of how much importance actors and players should have in our lives and society. He states that their importance should be equivalent to the importance of entertainment in the mind. You give a person as much importance as their utility in your life. Therefore, one must see what the person they are valuing is bringing into their life and how much value they give to that thing. When we live a wrong life, one in which we have chosen stress and sorrow due to some greed or fear, entertainment becomes very important for us. The mind is constantly troubled, under pressure, irritated, and scared. Then, the mind will demand entertainment. When it demands entertainment, the one who entertains you becomes very important. Actors and players are the ones who entertain. So, if you find a person or a whole society whose most famous people are its celebrities—actors, players, etc.—then understand that this person or society is living a very wrong life. There is no need for so much entertainment if you are living a right life. One who is living rightly will not have trouble in their work, home, or relationships. Our situation is such that we have taken a job that completely tramples the mind, the environment is bad, colleagues are bad, the boss is bad. There is a constant atmosphere of fear, greed, and tension. So, you will constantly need a dose of entertainment. You come out of the boss's room after he has berated you, and you immediately need to listen to a loud song. You come home, and there is a conflict with your wife or husband; you don't want to see each other's faces. The children you have produced are such that they suck your blood. The only option left is to quickly turn on the TV and put your face in it. You seek immediate relief. The more wretched your life is, the more you will find that these are your celebrities: actors and actresses of commercial films, this player, that player. This is because your life is so bad that even the worst movie is better than your life. When you go to watch even the worst movie, at least for some time, you can forget your own worst of the worst life. We are so hungry for entertainment that if we are served even excrement in the name of entertainment, we lick it. This is why so many bad films are made, because even bad films run. A bad film also recovers its money because we are so hungry for entertainment. The more wretched a channel is, the more its subscribers increase. This doesn't reveal anything about Jiddu Krishnamurti; it reveals something about us—what kind of people we are and what kind of nourishment we demand from life. When there is height in life, the people in your mind will undoubtedly be high-level people. Until you have high ideal figures in your mind and life, how will you get the inspiration to do something meaningful? Until you think of a good writer, scientist, poet, or revolutionary leader, you will not be inspired to do anything meaningful in life. So, be careful of such people. This person is not only shallow but also poisonous. They have nothing deep to talk about. Where there is no depth, there is poison. The right way is to pay whatever price is necessary to live a higher life. And you cannot live a higher life until you have high ideal figures in your mind.