My early morning routine || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Good evening sir. My name is Malvika. My question is that we have seen many celebrities talk

00:13about their morning routines as the key solution to their achievements. So according to you

00:21what is the perfect daily routine for everyone? I have never had a set routine so I am not

00:37the right person to ask this one too. But see I wake up and I stretch my hand to my workstation

00:52which is my phone and that's the routine that sets it. The ball is rolling now and I don't

01:03realize when the day ends, I have very little idea. So routine, you know when you are on the

01:15battlefield they say that all your plans are only till when the first bullet is fired, before the

01:29battle begins. Obviously you draw very meticulous plans on both sides. The generals on the two

01:38sides are sitting and saying this is my strategy, we'll do this, we'll do this, attack from here.

01:44But the moment the first shell is fired, all the plans are gone. Then it's just your sincerity

01:56towards your cause that takes you home. So that's how it has been in my case.

02:07If there is work to do, how do I say that my routine necessitates going to bed at 11

02:21p.m. But there is work to do and work is still not finished. So I'll have to stay awake till

02:282 a.m. or 3 a.m. and that's what, two hoots to the routine. What can I do with the routine?

02:36That's a bad advice, don't take it because it's a difficult one to bear and it really

02:46requires a bull's body to take and live this advice because this kind of a thing is actually

02:58harsh on the physical system. When you commit yourself fully to something worthwhile in life,

03:07then you have to disregard your body quite often and sometimes in a big way and in course of time,

03:19it will take its toll, not to be denied. So it depends on the depth of your love.

03:32A successful life in some sense is about dancing to somebody else's tunes,

03:42whose tunes, something bigger than yourself, and then you don't care for your own preferences,

03:59your own likes, dislikes, routines or food habits or this and that.

04:09I don't think I'll ever have the luxury of waking up at a particular time. I live in a kind of a

04:32community environment, people keep barging into my room all the time and that wakes me up.

04:39What do I do? There's never a lock here in this campus on any room, so not even on my room.

04:51People are free to walk in anytime as they please and they exercise their right with all their gust.

05:00There are times when I'm so tired in the night that I just don't have the energy to pull down

05:13the curtains. So it's 4 a.m. and exhausted, you just want to crash and the windows are all open.

05:27What's the result? The result is that at 6 a.m. you are again woken up by the sunlight and that's

05:43how it happens. No regrets. That might be a short-lived way but it's a beautiful way

06:00to surrender your routine to your cause. When you have an exam tomorrow, do you say that,

06:21this is my time to sleep or this is when I watch my favorite TV show? Do you see all that? The

06:32routine goes for a toss. What routine? There is an exam tomorrow. So give yourself a life in which

06:41there is an exam every day. Then you live very tightly, there is no slack. Then there is an

06:51automatic discipline, a discipline beyond an imposed routine. Because a routine definitely

06:59makes space for leisure etc. as well. When you say routine, that means these are the hours when I'll

07:06study, these are the hours when I'll do this, do that and these are the hours when I'll have my

07:11spare time for my leisure etc. So a routine is some kind of a luxury. You require a discipline

07:19beyond a routine. You commit yourself totally. There is that song, you are dancing to somebody's

07:29tune and the master is not you, the master is beyond you. Funny? It should be. It's actually

07:49quite funny. Hello sir, good evening. My name is Suhail and my question to you is that youngsters

08:01nowadays are very cautious about their diet, their health. They try to live a good lifestyle.

08:09So they try to wake up early. First thing they do is yoga or meditate. They try to follow a good

08:17diet etc. But yet at the end of the day, they complain about not being enough, feeling empty,

08:24feeling incomplete. Why do you suppose this happens? Because you are not born to just have

08:35a great lifestyle. You are born for a purpose and we have already spoken of the purpose. The purpose

08:45is freedom from your pre-existing bondages. This happens in Tihar. They arrange yoga for

08:56the inmates. Does that liberate them? Yoga classes are arranged for all the prisoners. That makes

09:07them more peaceful prisoners. Unfortunately, that's what a lot of yoga and meditation has

09:18become. You remain inside your prison and keep meditating. What else can you anyway do? You have

09:30been served a life sentence. You have gotten into something you cannot get out of your entire life.

09:37So meditate. That will keep you peaceful till you pass away. Meditation then becomes an obligation.

09:52Real meditation is revolution. If you are really meditative, you will rise and blow

10:17yourself up like a suicide bomber. That's what real meditativeness is. If you do not want to

10:26challenge your fundamental problems, instead you want to keep giving yourself superficial

10:32treatments. I have only salad for dinner. How will that help? How will that help? The fellow

10:45takes only salad at night. How will that help? It's all within the cage. Nice salad, Greek salad,

10:56served in the cage. How will that help? Very fit chap he is, extremely fit and the face glows. All

11:14the fitness within the cage. Push-ups and pull-ups, leg press and chest press, everything,

11:27come on, come on, within the cage. Duly sanctioned by the jailer. How will that help? The hollowness

11:38will remain. But that's the unfortunate ideal of this age. A very destructive, very pathetic ideal.

11:56Even spirituality has become so body-centric. All the spiritual teachers are talking about great

12:03diets and this and that and superfoods. What does self-knowledge have to do with superfoods? All

12:17that is just a trick to keep you confined and satisfied in the cage. Think of the parrot in

12:28the cage. You don't want to let the parrot die. So you keep serving the parrot nice things and

12:37sometimes you can even bring it a golden cage. The parrot is very happy. See, look at all the

12:44gold that I have. I even eat gold. And I see Ram Ram in the cage. If you really loved Ram,

13:13would you continue to live in the cage? Then what is this Mithu Bolo Ram Ram in the cage?

13:21What is all this spirituality and meditation and yoga? If it is not making you rebel in the

13:34loudest way possible, in the most authentic way possible. Hello sir. Sir, you were talking about

13:58the cage. So what came to me was this cage is of my tendencies and the things that just arise in

14:09me without me knowing. Did I get it right? The nature of the self is freedom. When you value

14:25something more than freedom, then you give up on the freedom to accept that thing around you.

14:33Please understand the nature of the cage. What is a cage? Something around you. Something,

14:42you are there and there is something around you. That's called a cage. That thing is around you

14:51because you have accepted it, allowed it to be around you. Basically you have said,

14:59I am trading away my freedom for this thing. Because if you want to retain your freedom,

15:08then you cannot have the cage. If you retain your freedom, can you have the cage? So it's a deal.

15:14You have bartered away your freedom for something else. Whatever it is you have

15:26bartered away your freedom for, that's called a cage. So for example, I am prepared to compromise

15:36on my freedom for the sake of your love. That's a cage. Anything that takes away your freedom

15:44is called a, that's the definition of a cage. A cage will not always look like a cage. When

15:53a bird is confined, it is obvious to see that there is a tangible material, metallic cage.

16:03The cages that we are confined in are not so tangible. So how do you detect whether you are

16:12caged? See what is it around you that exists at the cost of your freedom. See what is it around

16:23you that exists at the cost of your, whatsoever exists within or around you at the cost of your

16:32freedom is called a cage. And it will include that barter that one does to get, there is a

16:42thought that wraps one around. So that is also at the cost of my freedom. Even thought can aspire

16:53to be free. It is no mean thing to be a free thinker. Thought can obviously never be absolutely

17:00free. Thought always has the thinker at the center. So absolute freedom of thought is impossible. But

17:09even relatively, it is not a small thing to try to think freely. Even that freedom we barter for

17:19something else. Most people do not think freely because they cannot afford to think freely. If

17:25they think freely, they will be losing out on a lot of their conveniences. So they just don't

17:34freely. They pause their minds at a certain place. Beyond that they dare not go. Even in

17:43their thoughts, they do not dare to transgress certain limits. This is what I have noticed in

17:56myself as well. Because once my securities are at stake, then I stop my freedom of thought at

18:05that point. So that's what happens. Acharya ji, one more thing. You were talking about authenticity.

18:12Just before you were talking about being authentic. So either this me, this comes either from the body

18:23or the social conditioning that I have around me. So what I can see is there is just artificiality

18:37and there is no authenticity. So how can one inculcate this authenticity? Because it was a

18:51very attractive word for me, being authentic. Because I find myself being very artificial at

18:58times and that provides, that gives me suffering. So how can one inculcate this? No, you don't have

19:06to inculcate authenticity. Authenticity is your nature. You just have to figure out what is it

19:12that you are considering more important than authenticity. Once you see that there is something

19:20that you consider more important than authenticity, you will want to investigate its true value. Here

19:28this is it. Something, let's say attachment, that I am considering very very important. Even more

19:35important than authenticity, that is truth. So you go close to it and figure out whether

19:40attachment is really worth all that value. Whether attachment is really worth all that value. When

19:48you investigate, you find it does not have that kind of value. Then attachment drops,

19:54authenticity shines. Authenticity is not something you have to gain from somewhere. It's just that

20:00we start valuing other things a lot. The other things that you are valuing, you must figure out

20:07whether they are really worth it. I am sorry, but I was not able to understand this with

20:21attachment per se. Something, anything. There is authenticity that you are claiming to respect and

20:27value. At the same time you are saying you don't have enough of it and you want to obtain it. Which

20:33basically means there is something else that you are valuing more than authenticity. Something,

20:38I don't know what. You figure out. So that other thing, let's call it A, that you are valuing so

20:46much. I am saying look at it, find out whether it really makes sense to give it so much of value.

20:54Usually it is just the pleasures that I tend to give value to. Thank you.

21:06Thanks a lot sir for sharing your valuable strategies, your wisdom over all the years

21:11that you have worked and understood about life. We really appreciate you on behalf of Enactus

21:17Shyamlal College Evening for coming and sharing all the things that you did today. The thing that

21:23we are doing right now is a project called Kissa by Enactus Shyamlal College Evening. So what it

21:28does is it shares the stories and untold stories of people and also from people who are really

21:35successful at what they do. Their views and their opinions. So this is the project that we have

21:39started and it was really nice having you. Apart from this I am really a huge fan of you. Not only

21:46just what you share but of your brutal honesty. That's why I also came here to learn and understand

21:53what life is. The things that people ask are really important questions because we don't get

22:00all these answers everywhere. We see them on the internet but we don't get an in-depth answer for

22:05them. So thanks a lot for coming and sharing all the things that you did. We really appreciate the

22:10time that you did for us. Thanks a lot. Thank you.

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