What is good for you? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: What is good for me? || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00It does not matter whether you are a teacher, or a research scholar, or a lab assistant, or a top scientist, or nothing at all.

00:08If it brings genuine liberation to you, it is right.

00:13Rightness or wrongness is decided not by precedence, or social acceptability, or even scriptural acceptability.

00:22It is decided by one single factor.

00:25Does it bring fulfillment to you? Does it bring liberation to you?

00:28If it does, it is great. If it does not, it does not matter whether it is bedecked in gold and jewels.

00:36It is worthless for you.

00:37So, in that sense, the thing here just cannot be contested.

00:42It is so straightforward and so innocent that one cannot find fault with this approach.

00:48I am not alright. I need to be alright.

00:50Whatever makes me alright is good, virtuous, acceptable.