Understanding Self-Respect || Acharya Prashant
Full video: Ego vs Self-Respect || Acharya Prashant, IIT-Patna (2023)
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00:00You live for 80 years without ever thinking deeply about yourself, your life, your relationships,
00:06your dreams, your hopes, your regrets, your suffering, your phobias.
00:11You never think about these things and you live for an entire 80 years and then you die.
00:16That's the deepest disrespect towards the self, to not to know oneself.
00:21Self-respect is nothing but self-awareness.
00:23The more you know yourself, the more you realize who you are not and that brings you to who
00:29you are.
00:30That is real self-respect.
00:31Knowing oneself, basically that means that people who do not know themselves are the
00:36ones who greatly disrespect themselves.
00:40Because if someone comes and says a few abusive or coarse words to you, feel hurt, you say
00:46the fellow disrespected me.
00:48But this disrespect is nothing compared to the disrespect that we heap on ourselves by
00:54remaining ignorant of ourselves all life long.