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इज़्ज़त से जीना चाहते हो? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2021)
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Self-interest
Surrender
Truth
Self-forgetfulness
Duality
Ashtavakra
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that there is a beauty that makes you helpless, a light before which you lay down your arms. However, he cautions that this can also be natural. He distinguishes between surrendering to the Truth, which is one thing, and surrendering to a person's physical beauty, which is entirely different. The speaker outlines three levels of action. The lowest level is to act in one's own interest. A higher level is to act against oneself, but this still keeps the idea of 'I' intact, as in 'I am breaking my limits' or 'I am becoming the best I can be.' The highest level of action is to forget what 'I' means, to be neither for nor against oneself. This happens when you are so immersed in something important that you forget your own fear and your own self. You might remember the fear later, but at that moment, it was forgotten. He gives the example of a warrior who forgets his thirst in battle or continues to fight with a fatal wound until victory is achieved. He quotes Ashtavakra, saying that liberation is in forgetting, as all troubles arise from things remembered, which are all tied to the 'I'. The real thing is to remember only what is essential, and then all the fake things will be forgotten. The joy of life is a life without the 'I'; life is there, but not 'my life.' The 'I' is the thorn in the chest of life. Our life revolves around our wound, and the 'I' is that wound. To live with honor, one must learn to disrespect oneself (the false, conditioned self). If you don't, life will disrespect you. One cannot serve two masters. The choice is between the Truth and sleep (ignorance). We are in the middle, between the animalistic and the divine, and thus need vigilance (dhyan). The way is to invite the higher one and not invite the lower one to the party of life. The last place in life should be for yourself.