The great cure to all suffering || Acharya Prashant on Yogvashishta (2016)

Acharya Prashant

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00:26 The great remedy to all suffering

00:29 is the inquiry "Koham" - Who am I?

00:33 The great inquiry

00:37 into suffering is getting close

00:41 to suffering itself. The sage says

00:45 "What is this Sansar?" The Sansar itself is

00:49 the suffering. The sage is saying "Get close to suffering."

00:53 Is there any experience of your suffering which has not come

00:57 from the world? Go into your own experience.

01:01 Verify it. We all have our wounds

01:05 and hurts. Any of your wounds and hurts

01:09 that have not come from the world, that have not come

01:13 from an aspect of your relationship with something or somebody?

01:17 The sage is saying "Suffering comes

01:21 from the world. Suffering is in fact analogous with the world."

01:25 So, inquire into the world.

01:29 And parallelly he is saying "Find out who am I?"

01:33 The world gives the suffering to this "I". Let the inquiry

01:37 be parallel. Who is giving the suffering and who is the sufferer?

01:41 This is classical duality.

01:45 There is somebody who is affecting me and there is somebody who is getting

01:49 affected. There is an object and there is a subject.

01:53 The sage is saying "Inquire into both. I and the Sansar.

01:57 Inquire into both." And when you inquire into both,

02:01 then both dissolve together.

02:05 And now the non-dual truth,

02:09 the Dvaita Sathya, has descended.

02:13 Now there is freedom

02:17 from both the world that appears

02:21 outside and the ego that appears

02:25 inside. In fact now, outside and inside

02:29 both are gone. Outside and inside are space.

02:33 Gone.

02:37 The total import of

02:41 all these five opening verses is simple.

02:45 "Kindly do not look for the beyond."

02:49 "Kindly do not look anywhere else

02:53 for liberation." You are living. You are

02:57 alive. You have a life. Go into your

03:01 own daily experiences.

03:05 Go into how you are living.

03:09 Are you getting it? What am I wearing? What am I

03:13 eating? Where do I come?

03:17 And from where do I go?

03:21 Am I attentive?

03:25 What am I planning for? What am I looking

03:29 towards? Am I still thinking of the future?

03:33 Am I still thinking in terms of time? Am I always

03:37 thinking in terms of time?

03:41 The sage is saying this is the only method.

03:45 And he is saying the

03:49 truth being the only method, it comes to you only

03:53 by the grace of truth itself.

03:57 And truth showers its grace only when

04:01 you have bowed down in front of it.

04:05 All it demands is your surrender. All it

04:09 demands is your call for help. You have to first

04:13 see that you are stuck and being what you are,

04:17 you cannot help yourself. That all the methods and plans

04:21 and cleverness devised by you has failed, is failing

04:25 and is condemned to fail. Once you have seen

04:29 the utter futility of all your effort, that is when you

04:33 surrender. In fact, seeing the foolishness of your

04:37 ways, seeing

04:41 the ineffectiveness of all your

04:45 planning and cunningness

04:49 is the entrance

04:53 into spirituality, is the advent of surrender.

04:57 Are you getting it?

05:01 So, let's be just a little more honest.

05:05 Just a little more honest about what is happening.

05:09 What is happening every minute, every moment, right now.

05:13 In this honesty

05:17 there might lie a little initial

05:21 pain because when you will see, you will only

05:25 see that you are needlessly

05:29 torturing yourself. That will disappoint you, especially if you consider

05:33 yourself to be hale and hearty.

05:37 But kindly,

05:41 kindly let that disappointment come

05:45 to you. That disappointment is auspicious.

05:49 Once you are totally disappointed,

05:53 then you let go of your hopes.

05:57 Your hopes from yourself. That is

06:01 surrender.

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