Chasing Happiness || Acharya Prashant
Full video: Want to beat the competition? || Acharya Prashant, at DTU (2023)
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00:00No, it's not that you should not chase happiness.
00:02You should chase great happiness, true happiness, free of sadness, happiness free of fear.
00:11And this will tell you that usually the happiness that we chase is not high, comes with fear
00:16and comes with sadness, does it not?
00:19And that's the problem with the normal kind of happiness.
00:23So the knowers have said, happiness is not the goal of life, absolute happiness is the
00:28goal of life.
00:29We talk of ambition, think of the ambition of the sages and the great philosophers.
00:35And that's the reason they said that the usual happinesses that you chase are all nonsense.
00:42Because those happinesses come on back of fear.
00:46Those happinesses won't last.
00:48Those happinesses would leave long periods of wanting and longing and shallowness in
00:55their wake.