False Happiness and Success || Acharya Prashant
Transcript
00:00 We are drawing some kind of fake happiness from places where forget spiritual joy, even
00:06 material happiness is not really there.
00:09 And to make things worse, we are calling our experience at such places as an experience
00:16 of happiness.
00:17 We want to tell ourselves that all our running around throughout our life has been successful.
00:23 We don't want to admit that we have utterly failed.
00:25 So we want to pretend to ourselves that we have succeeded and hence we are happy.
00:30 And if you dare admit to yourself that you are not happy, then you will have to immediately
00:35 and equally admit that you have failed.
00:38 And if you have failed, then you risk losing everything.
00:40 If you are an utter failure, you will lose social standing.
00:43 You may even lose your wife or husband.
00:45 You will lose your kids' respect.
00:47 If somebody outside of you is duping you, then you can be helped.
00:53 But if you are hatching a conspiracy against yourself, who can help you?