Why Maintain Such a Car? || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: How to live, and not just survive? || Acharya Prashant, at St. Xavier's, Mumbai (2022)
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00:00Why does the fellow go to his office?
00:02So that the stomach can be fueled.
00:04Is much the same as buying a car so that it can be taken to the petrol pump to fuel it.
00:10The car goes nowhere else.
00:11It goes only till the petrol pump or it goes till the garage so that it can be serviced.
00:17What's the point in buying and maintaining such a car?
00:20It takes you nowhere.
00:21There is no destination it can bring to you.
00:24Similarly, what is the point in having this body?
00:27If the entire life has to be spent just servicing this body, of what use is life then?
00:33If all you have to look for is physical, mental security and fulfillment of blind desires,
00:39you live when there is something beyond physicality to live for.
00:44What is real life then?
00:47Real life is when the body, the physicality is not the end but the means.