You Can Buy Happiness? || Acharya Prashant
Transcript
00:00 What do you think a person does once he gets some money?
00:03 You didn't have money, you were sad all the time.
00:05 Now you have a job and some money.
00:07 What do you do with that?
00:08 You go to the market, binge, splurge.
00:10 I have money, I can throw money.
00:12 Let me have that one.
00:14 And the market tells you that you can have happiness through consumption.
00:18 Come, buy my stuff, it will make you happy.
00:21 And it does make you happy for a while.
00:23 It's the darkness in the mind that thinks that you are born to consume.
00:28 And consumption will make you happy.
00:30 You are born suffering.
00:32 So the first thing that comes to your mind is pursuit of happiness.
00:36 Why? Because I am a suffering being.
00:38 I am a suffering being who is also ignorant.
00:41 So he does not know why he suffers.
00:43 first.