How to get rid of loneliness? || Acharya Prashant
Transcript
00:00 May you live till 126. You will find that loneliness still haunts you.
00:04 The same kind of loneliness that you experienced when you were 26 days old.
00:08 We feel, "Oh, it's about a young person, probably looking for a friend or a mate."
00:13 No, no, no. It's an existential problem.
00:17 We are lonely because we exist.
00:20 We are dependent. Why? Because we exist.
00:23 How to challenge this problem then?
00:25 The shallow way is to fight loneliness through distraction.
00:30 And if you distract yourself in a thousand ways,
00:34 then you can keep loneliness at bay at least for a certain time.
00:38 I would invite you to come to Vedanta.
00:41 I'd invite you to go to all the fundamental spiritual scriptures.
00:48 Once you develop the taste of being with a Krishan or a Mahavir,
00:53 you will forget all this loneliness and dependency business.