Only for those dissatisfied with life || Acharya Prashant, with DU (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Pranam Acharya. I wanted to ask how do we identify the real purpose in life? Apart from

00:11 this worldly things like as son of my father I need to support him, then I need to earn

00:19 the livelihood, all these things. But ultimately as you are doing the noble job like promoting

00:26 Vedanta, sometimes also done by the Swami Vivekananda, how do we sir, as like we do

00:34 not have that much enlightenment, how do we find our purpose in life? Even if that is

00:43 like if this illusion life what you call I mean, even if this exists.

00:49 What is the problem that you are facing? Is there a problem in the first place?

00:55 I am facing like real purpose in life. I am like too much.

01:00 That you are saying is something you desire. Spirituality is not there to fulfill your

01:06 desires. If there is a pain point, tell me, is there a problem you are facing?

01:12 Taking spirituality sir, I like say you are working for some purpose, like you have got

01:17 some ultimate, I want to find out the ultimate purpose of my life.

01:25 You live through your days, right? So you must be having some purpose already. You are

01:34 a student, are you? Right sir.

01:37 So you are living through your days and you are not living through your days purposelessly.

01:43 But I am considering it as a smaller goal.

01:46 How do you know it's a small goal? How do you know it's a small goal?

01:51 Like small in the sense like as you said this, we as a person don't exist actually.

02:01 That you heard from me just five minutes back. How have you been living through your days

02:06 since so long? There surely is a purpose, right? What's wrong with those purposes that

02:12 you have every day?

02:17 That haunts me like that they are like, I am stuck into this thing like before listening

02:23 to you, even I used to listen to your videos and even before that I have this thing that

02:29 the whatever we think or wherever our mind goes, that is to very limited things. Ultimate

02:38 goal can be.

02:39 So what's the problem? What's the problem with having limited things as purpose?

02:49 They get fulfilled and we seek for the next one.

02:53 So what's the problem with that?

03:01 I don't find them too big to pursue all the time.

03:06 So they are not big, they are small. What's the problem?

03:14 I said there is no problem.

03:15 So you are already good. Why needlessly think of show spoilers like Vivekananda and trouble

03:23 yourself?

03:26 Just because they have a big name.

03:29 So one feels I should also have a big name and start thinking of them as if respectfully,

03:37 but probably the objective is just emulation.

03:41 If you are already okay in the life that you are leading, why think of an alternative?

03:50 I do not know even I do not know that whether I like the life which I am leading like I

03:55 am like very much okay with it.

03:58 I will return to the first question.

04:00 What is your problem with the life that you are leading?

04:06 When you go to a doctor, what does he ask you?

04:08 "Dard kahan ho raha hai?"

04:10 So what is your problem?

04:12 If you tell the doctor, you know, I want to visit Switzerland, doctor will say, you know,

04:17 that's a desire.

04:19 Where is the problem?

04:24 A solution is not the same thing as desire fulfillment.

04:33 Solution comes when you first of all identify a clear problem.

04:37 What is the problem?

04:40 So like, as you say, sir, like, we can like whatever I am doing that is fine.

04:46 Absolutely.

04:47 Like, I cannot, I should not seek for something very different.

04:54 I don't know you tell me what is the problem?

04:58 The problem itself like that.

05:01 Okay, I'll ask you a question.

05:03 I'll ask you a question.

05:04 Let's say you have never heard of Vivekananda or other so called great people.

05:11 Would you still have a problem?

05:14 Right now you are facing a problem because you see that there were people who took up

05:18 noble missions and did this did that and compared to them you find your life quite small petty

05:23 etc.

05:25 So by comparison, you see a problem.

05:29 Let's say nobody is available for comparison.

05:32 Is there still a problem?

05:33 No, sir.

05:37 In that respect, I am not seeking that as question.

05:41 What I wanted to ask is like, do we have any other purpose other than like doing these

05:48 whatever things we are doing?

05:50 Can we have any other purpose?

05:52 The question of other purpose arises only when one has a problem in the current purposes.

06:00 As you are living your life, you already have certain purposes.

06:03 Now, do you have a problem with your current purposes?

06:07 First thing, you cannot say I'm already alright and still I want to get alright.

06:17 Do you have a problem?

06:19 Have you identified your problem?

06:21 Are you willing to disclose it?

06:28 That's what I say, like for whatever thing I do, like for after sometime I get, in the

06:36 sense you can say, fine, this is not what I should be doing.

06:44 That might as well be a moral compunction raising its head.

07:01 You know the solution is never too far.

07:09 It's just that we don't even know the problem.

07:15 The moment the problem is known, the solution is so near, but the ego refuses to acknowledge

07:26 the real problems.

07:29 The very fear is that the problem may not remain and if the problem is gone, the self

07:36 is gone.

07:43 Why do then one seek spirituality or say for example, go to Vedanta Mahal?

07:48 People seek it just as an entertainment.

07:53 One is bored of so many things.

07:55 So, let's try our hand at this one as well.

07:59 That is most, there may be some genuine people.

08:06 The genuine people have genuinely identified their problem.

08:13 It's not so difficult to identify it.

08:17 It's just that we imagine the consequences of identifying it and feel afraid.

08:33 Figure out what problem would you face if you continue to live the same kind of life.

08:44 Figure out what problems you are already facing if you continue to live the way you do.

08:53 What is happening to you in your current ways?

09:03 I have been listening to you like quite often and what I am doing currently like it has

09:12 certain purpose, it will get filled after some time.

09:16 Again I will move on to the next goal like keep on the entire life I will be doing this.

09:23 So am I really meant for this?

09:25 Who am I to tell you that?

09:28 If you feel contended as you are currently going, obviously you will continue going that

09:37 way.

09:41 A change is needed only when the one within is troubled with the status quo, things as

09:51 they are.

09:53 Are you really troubled?

09:58 And unless there is an acknowledgement of real trouble, there can be no change.

10:04 There can be a lot of words, there can be years of discussions but no change will happen.

10:11 Change happens only when you clearly identify there is a problem and I will have no more

10:17 of it.

10:18 I am done with living with this problem.

10:30 Spirituality is not window shopping.

10:33 I am already happy with the clothes that I have but I found something on the mannequin

10:39 and I just enquire the price, just you know to tell myself that there are other options

10:44 available.

10:46 You have to find yourself naked and shivering in the cold and then beg for clothes.

10:55 That's spirituality.

10:59 You have to see you are in a very very bad shape, only then you will have the guts to

11:06 embrace an alternative.

11:10 Otherwise it's just entertainment.

11:13 Eighteen yogas are available.

11:17 Wow, 18 alternatives I have.

11:25 Internally you are already yogasth, established in yoga, so why will you choose any of those

11:29 18 paths?

11:33 You have to see that internally there is deep vyog, separation.

11:39 You are torn apart.

11:42 If you do not see that, if you express your condition in this kind of lukewarm way, I

11:48 have certain purposes, they get fulfilled, then there will be some other purpose.

11:53 This frankly takes one nowhere.

11:58 The ones who reach somewhere are the ones who acknowledge a deep deep suffering inside.

12:06 The ones who are well adjusted, well they can remain well adjusted.

12:27 So my advice, figure out whether you really see anything terribly wrong in the way you

12:36 are currently living.

12:41 If you don't see anything greatly wrong with that, no problem.

12:46 Don't worry.

12:52 Some things wrong, this kind of enunciation.

12:53 Some things in the sense like not something in the sense, I find like study something

12:57 terribly say for example, taking the, like how the life has gone.

13:03 So what is it that you find terribly, fundamentally wrong with the way you are living?

13:10 I'm not stable with one thing.

13:12 So what's terrible about that?

13:13 Terrible right, so I keep on changing things like say for example, I am from engineering

13:20 background, I did engineering, went on teaching in the engineering colleges and I could and

13:27 then I started preparing for civil services.

13:30 I went through pains and then interview but I find I could not make it and right now I

13:36 am pursuing law.

13:39 What's terrible about it?

13:41 That I am finding myself as a wanderer.

13:46 What's terrible about wandering?

13:51 There has to be rest to it.

13:55 That's some kind of a heavenly mandate.

13:58 There has to be rest.

14:00 One day you will die, you will have enough rest.

14:08 Nothing wrong with this.

14:14 You don't find anything wrong in it.

14:18 And that's what is wrong.

14:28 That's what is terrible.

14:45 Not that I mean to enforce an opinion upon you.

14:52 It's just that I see you interested in change.

14:55 And I know very well that change cannot happen unless there is terrible dissatisfaction.

15:05 The kind of change you are looking for is not superficial, not incremental.

15:10 You want fundamental change.

15:13 For fundamental change there has to be an insight into the fundamentals.

15:22 Things that appear normal to you currently should start appearing very weird.

15:32 Things that are acceptable today should start appearing extremely distasteful.

15:45 When that kind of a thing starts happening only then there is change.

15:51 Otherwise you can keep skimming on the surface of life and that's no problem.

16:01 Maybe that day is going to come soon.

16:03 Should I seek that again you?

16:08 I'm available.

16:13 Had I not been available you wouldn't have come to me.

16:17 I was available to you even before this conversation.

16:21 That availability made this conversation possible.

16:27 So I'm anyway available.

16:32 There is nobody who is not generally dissatisfied with life.

16:38 But that general dissatisfaction does not help anybody.

16:42 Please see.

16:45 You find anybody perfectly contended?

16:49 Nobody.

16:53 People have their complaints, grudges, grouses, something is wrong here, something is wrong

16:59 there.

17:00 That little bit of average kind of dissatisfaction only helps to maintain things as they are.

17:13 You are dissatisfied with your car, you provide it more maintenance.

17:21 The car remains maintained.

17:32 You need to, I'm repeating, see how the very fundamentals of life are botched up.

17:45 And then something can happen.

17:47 But don't force that upon yourself.

17:54 Don't try to make that forcibly, artificially happen.

17:58 Right from the childhood we have been taught or like in our education system is like that

18:07 that we have been taught about the great people's like or the personification of like you should

18:14 be doing something very big or very like different in life.

18:19 Those things have gone deep into the mind.

18:22 And now less things do not satisfy us like and that satisfaction then where does it lead

18:27 us to?

18:32 See big things happening to small people leave them small even after the big event.

18:48 The question is not whether big things are happening to you.

18:51 The question is are you big?

18:57 Are you big?

19:05 So the smallness within has to be encountered.

19:20 Without that trying for big positions, big money, big power, big life, all that means

19:28 nothing.

19:32 It is the inner encounters that we are very afraid of.

19:43 And we are equally afraid of encountering that we avoid the encounters.

19:53 So we pretend to ourselves that we are available to the encounters.

19:57 We are not.

20:04 When the real deal is there, we just avoid it.

20:24 When water comes to the boiling point, we take it off the heater and we certify ourselves

20:38 as good people.

20:39 You see I allowed it to come to 98, 99.

20:48 Can't you see what is it that you didn't allow to happen?

20:56 I am so sure I am not making much sense.

21:04 But fine.

21:05 All right.

21:06 I suppose I am not clear with myself.

21:12 I will remain available.

21:13 Thank you sir.

21:14 Wonderful.

21:15 Thank you.

21:20 Thank you.

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