How to get rid of body-identification as a woman? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

‍♂️ Want to meet Acharya Prashant? Be a part of the Live Sessions: https://acharyaprashant.org/hi/enquir...   Want to read Acharya Prashant's Books? Get Free Delivery: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/books?...  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Video Information: Vishranti Shivir, 05.05.2019, Mumbai, India   Context:  What is body identification? How to get rid of body-identification? How do we get body-identified? What is the root cause of all evil in the world?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .

Transcript

00:00A woman being seen just as a body, it hurts a lot.

00:14And from my own experience.

00:20How can this stop?

00:21Like, when will it stop?

00:24Like, how can you see a person just as a body?

00:38What is the root cause?

00:39Where does it start?

00:41You answer it.

00:43You know already.

00:46You attended enough sessions and you have lived through enough life to know the answer.

01:00The start point though.

01:04The beginning point is the birth of the being, driven by nature, driven by Prakriti.

01:12So it might begin with the birth of the body, but then it is exacerbated by social conditioning.

01:28And when there is nothing beyond the body in your life, you have no option but to consider

01:35yourself as a body.

01:43The ego needs something to identify with, right?

01:51And if that great, that tremendous is not available, then what else is there to be identified

01:58with?

01:59The body.

02:00And there is an incentive in getting identified with the body.

02:04The body offers a lot of pleasures.

02:17What is the solution?

02:19You know the solution, right?

02:23Just as a lot of conditioning brings a man or a woman to be more and more body-identified,

02:37similarly rigorous spiritual education is needed.

02:43And one has to remember that body identification is not merely a spiritual matter.

02:49It is not merely an otherworldly concern.

02:52Body identification is the root cause of all evils in the world.

02:59You name any problem and you will be able to trace it back to body identification.

03:08Unless there is rigorous spiritual education, you cannot get rid of body identification.

03:15One needs an identity, right?

03:19If there is no other identity, the body is the obvious identity.

03:24You cannot live identity-less.

03:29The ego needs an address, a name.

03:34The ego has to be something or somebody.

03:41The easy choice is the body.

03:55And when your body identified, then you have no option but to destroy the world.

04:02Because if your body identified, then the only reality to you is the world.

04:07What is it that the body can perceive?

04:10The world, nothing else.

04:13And identified with the body, you are greatly hungry.

04:19You haven't identified with the body for nothing.

04:22You have identified with the body for a purpose.

04:24What is that purpose?

04:25Contentment.

04:27I want satisfaction through the body.

04:30Now what will the body do?

04:33The body will consume the world in order to get satisfaction.

04:40But even if you consume away the entire world, that satisfaction doesn't come.

04:46So we see what is happening now.

04:49In order to get satisfaction, man has burnt down the entire world and is still not satisfied.

04:58And will never be satisfied.

05:00Even if the entire universe is burnt down to ashes, man will still not gain contentment

05:06Because man is choosing a false route.

05:12You can never get contentment through the body.

05:17It is not a spiritual axiom or something.

05:21It is a matter of practical observation.

05:43Lack of spirituality is destroying human beings and the world.

06:06Human beings are being destroyed from the inside.

06:11The world is being destroyed from the outside.

06:23There is fire in man's mind and there is fire in the forests.

06:36One is visible, one is not.

06:39But both are the same thing.

07:03That is starting even before birth.

07:10So we said, you are already body identified when you are born.

07:17That is why rigorous spiritual discipline is needed to get rid of this.

07:21Forget about getting totally rid of this, even to keep this in check.

07:29Even to limit it to seen levels, you require rigorous spiritual education.

07:41Otherwise there is just inner and outer destruction.

08:10I was thinking about the bondages.

08:37So one thing that I observed is that I am afraid of losing money, as in I am very confident

08:50as long as I have money.

08:52So it gives me a sense of freedom that I don't have to depend on anyone, there is nothing

08:58that I should be afraid of.

09:00So as long as I have my stable income, I don't care about anything else.

09:10So if I have to leave everything and join the foundation or even any other noble cause,

09:20I know that I will not earn as much money.

09:23So there is that bit of hesitancy.

09:27You have to clearly know how much is enough.

09:44Don't leave it vague.

09:49The more clearly you define what is and how much is enough for you, the easier would it

09:59be for you to act.

10:05It is great that you do not want to be dependent on someone.

10:08It is great that you earn for yourself, but you must know how much is enough.

10:20I would strongly advise you to never, never move around with a begging bowl.

10:28It's great that you must have something in hand and not bad if you have something in

10:34the bank as well, fine.

10:37But how much?

10:47And as much as is needed, must be arranged.

11:03So my initial thinking was that I will work for a couple of years, arrange for certain

11:09things and then I can do whatever I want.

11:11But then there is this confusion where that by the time I arrange things, am I too late

11:18in starting off the issue?

11:21Arrange with respect to what?

11:25First of all, you have to clearly figure out who you are and how much is enough for you.

11:32Otherwise the question of arrangement of a particular level of funds would remain very

11:39open-ended and unanswered.

11:46If I do not know who I am, how would I ever know how much money do I need?

12:00I feel a very strong pull towards something in this direction.

12:08At the same time, it's very overwhelming.

12:10I get panic attacks sometimes before the camp begins or before I have to do any task.

12:16I purposefully find an excuse to, you know, maybe not do something like I attended this

12:26camp late.

12:28I came for all the three days, but I attended it late because I just feel overwhelmed.

12:32At the same time, there's something extremely captivating, which I can't…

12:38These two are the same thing.

12:40It is because there is something very, very enthralling, something very compelling.

12:50That is why you also feel the awe and therefore the resistance.

13:02Nobody likes things to go out of control.

13:09Nobody wants to be attracted without measure.

13:15One wants everything to be capped, controlled, limited.

13:24So when something is hugely overpowering, then one is compelled to resist it.

13:34So these two are two aspects of the same thing.

13:37The attraction and therefore the panic and the resultant resistance.

13:45All that is only as long as you keep a safe distance.

13:54What if you had taken over upon yourself, the responsibility of arranging something

14:01in the morning or afternoon of the first day itself, would you have then afforded to come

14:06late in the evening?

14:08That's what.

14:09So all these mental games are only as long as you maintain an arm's length.

14:17I feel I am doing that, I am maintaining an arm's length.

14:26Sooner than later, you see, without your conscious choice, without the thing coming

14:36in your notice, you will find that you are unable to maintain that separation, that distance.

14:44Better sooner than later.

14:48It's anyway going to happen, not because you will necessarily choose that it happens, but

14:54because it is bound to happen that way.

14:58You cannot remain in a magnetic field and yet afford to be stagnant for long, especially

15:11when the field is becoming stronger and stronger.

15:15So at some point you will have to get sucked in.

15:20If you know that that is destined, then better sooner than later and these are stories.

15:31If you stay away from something, what else can you have?

15:34Not facts but stories.

15:38The moment you join the action, all these things just vaporize because there is no space

15:44left for them.

15:46You see, there is so much to do here, after this or rather when you are into this, how

15:55will you manage to think about this and that?

15:58Did this Vishanti actually go perfectly well?

16:01It didn't.

16:02So, there was a lot to do, a lot to do and if we get into that, then the various miscellaneous

16:14thoughts and these things not only go away, but also one comes in touch with a reality

16:20that is beyond our conception, our imagination.

16:27What I am saying and what I am up to and what do I want for myself and for you, that you

16:34will know in a much better way when you are an activist rather than merely a passive participant.

16:50But how do I come, overcome that fear that I won't be able to handle it or I won't be able to…

16:56Let's try, let's see.

16:59How do I know that I'll be able to handle your question?

17:04Look at me, poor me.

17:07You keep throwing all kinds of things at me and I don't even have the option to say, no,

17:14no, no, no ball, no ball, only two bouncers allowed per hour.

17:21You can throw six bouncers, you can throw a beamer, you can bowl underhand.

17:28You can even come right up to my nose and then throw the ball at me.

17:36I have to play, I have to engage you.

17:41I cannot declare your query, your delivery illegitimate and walk away.

17:50So let's just try, let's see, let's see whether we have the appetite for it.

17:58And I have great trust, when I invite somebody to try something out, within I am smiling

18:07because I know the result of the trial and advance.

18:12I know I don't have to sell something to you.

18:17I know I don't have to advertise or try too hard with you.

18:23I know I just have to get you agree to try.

18:30I don't need your consent.

18:34I only need your experimentation.

18:41Once you experiment with it, consent is obviously forthcoming.

18:47So let's try and try with all the skepticism that you can muster.

18:54I'm not asking you to try as a believer, try as a skeptic, try as a critic.

19:07You may even try with the intention to disprove me, okay with that.

19:19I have just too much of a deep belief in something to be dissuaded by your lack of belief.

19:36So let's try, let's see.

19:53You don't have to straight away take a decision and jump, proceed as carefully as you want

20:01to, one step at a time.

Category

Transcript

Recommended