Gita does not say that! || Acharya Prashant, with NIT, Trichy (2021)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00So that's what was my life's motto that jack of all trades and until you find the one or

00:13like do whatever gives you the mental pleasure and do that freely like you want to do this

00:20you can do this just do this that was my motto till today like I was a cultural person I

00:26was a sports person I was a nerd everything but people around me keeps telling me why

00:31aren't you giving full potential to one like studies and all like that he say he said that

00:37a placement

00:39like and but I didn't want to do but

00:41it's a fast-changing competitive world I cannot like always be like me like

01:04my question was that with that like I don't want a big balance check I want to check all the things

01:10that are in my bucket list not big balance check see the Gita is probably the most misunderstood

01:20scripture among the popular ones the Gita does not say at all that you must do whatever

01:35you do without caring for the result such a thing is not only not said it is also impossible

01:52to execute the Gita does not ask you to just randomly follow your whims and desires first

02:07thing it says is do not do anything for your personal pleasure or gratification and when

02:16you do not do something just for your personal pleasure or gratification then and only then

02:25will you be able to execute it without bothering for the results as long as you are doing something

02:36for your own benefit in your own self-interest it will be impossible for you to not care

02:44for the results you will be result-oriented because to the ego to the common actor the

02:53result comes first you first covet a result and then you initiate an action to achieve

03:02that result in such a scenario how can you be unmindful of the result you can be unmindful

03:14of the result only if it is not for yourself that you act so the Gita is not at all telling

03:25you to follow your pleasures or your interests you know in a free and indiscreet fashion

03:37Nishkama Karma action without bothering for rewards is about a higher center of action

03:56you have to say my action is not coming from a deluded point my action is not coming from

04:07blind desire my action is coming from a higher point and because it is coming from a higher

04:17point it has blessed me with detachment for the results the action itself is so potent so so

04:33lovable so powerful and so inexorable that I have forgotten to bother about what will

04:47happen next this action is love itself how can I ask for what will happen tomorrow when

04:57today itself is so beautiful that's what the Gita is saying the Gita is not asking you to

05:06make a mess of today and then say I do not care what happens tomorrow but mostly that's the way

05:16people misinterpret and misuse the Gita that's also the way so many popular gurus have sold the

05:25Gita it's very harmful first thing right action only right action can give you detachment from

05:40the result of action right action and detachment will always go together you have right action and

05:50detachment you will get for free you don't have to work for detachment false action deluded action

05:59and you will find it is impossible to get rid of attachment you will always have one eye on

06:07the result in fact if you have one eye on the result you must tell yourself what I am doing

06:14is not right else how could have I worried so much about the outcome this worry itself is an

06:22indication that I am not living rightly not choosing rightly that I am not right so you said

06:34you have a you have an entire bucket of hobbies interests and things to pursue you must investigate

06:43this bucket quite carefully right in this bucket you might find gems and they are worth cherishing

06:52and nourishing and in this bucket you also might find trash obviously you must throw it away no

07:01point keeping gems with trash so have discretion first figure out what is worth doing see

07:13that a lot that we decide to do or pursue is just conditioning people around us are doing this or

07:23that and it's not always the people around us or the situations around us that compel us to do

07:31something more dangerous is the bodily impulsion external compulsion is easier to detect since

07:42it's easier to detect so it's easier to resist bodily impulsions inner slavery is more difficult

07:54to detect because it is inner because it is inner so we feel it is our own we do not call that

08:03compulsion as a bondage at all we start calling it as an internal desire please see that a lot

08:13of what we call as desire is not actually internal it might be bodily physical hormonal social

08:21situational whatever once you get rid of a lot of things that just need not be pursued you will be

08:30left only with the gems and those gems deserve all your attention all your love and the added

08:40benefit that you get is freedom from worries you don't want to worry whether the Sun will rise at

08:47all tomorrow today is sufficient because today is extremely occupied today so lovable that it has

08:58enveloped you completely you are left with no time no space no need to worry for tomorrow

09:07and that's a beautiful life

09:13so it is for the day and I also believe when one thing that we have two births one birth is the

09:19normal birth and this second birth is the birth when we know that what is the purpose or what is

09:27the higher purpose of our life yes go for the second one but I have to try like to find the

09:37purpose I have to try different things you have to try very very hard very very hard and you have

09:43to try without being attached to any of the trials you have to remember that these are mere attempts

09:51they should not become fixations when you are experimenting with something the experiment is

09:56not the conclusion so let the experiment let the trial remain a trial do not get possessed or

10:03fixated keep moving on keep moving on and surely one does come to something that is worth giving

10:13one's life to there do give your life

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