Facing Inner Emptiness_ Where Do We Find Purpose_ __ Acharya Prashant (2023)

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Video Information: 08.06.2023, Gita Samagam English, Greater Noida

Facing Inner Emptiness: Where Do We Find Purpose? || Acharya Prashant (2023)

📋 Video Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction and Initial Thoughts
1:13 - The Sunset Scenario
3:34 - The Difference Between Living and Living For
5:49 - Life for Its Own Sake
8:23 - Choosing to Love Without Conditions
10:10 - The Concept of Dying Before Fighting

Description:
In this video, Acharya Prashant delves into the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, focusing on Nishkama Karma (desireless action) and the art of mindful living. He explains how true happiness and peace come from living in the present moment, free from the pressure of goals or expectations.
Using examples like watching a sunset, Acharya Prashant discusses the power of detachment, letting go of desires, and finding fulfillment in everyday life. This aligns with themes of spirituality, self-improvement, and mental clarity. Learn how to live a stress-free life, achieve inner peace, and practice detachment for true fulfillment.

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Transcript

00:00Good evening sir. Sir, as in the satsang you mentioned that stepping back from the world

00:10and resting in your own sacred shrine. When I heard this, I felt very scary as I felt

00:18that within ourselves is nothing. So, if there is nothing, then what we will live for?

00:28You can just live. You can just live without living for something. What else is the central

00:41message of the Gita? Nishkamta. What does kamna mean? What does kamna mean? Desires.

00:52What does that mean? Yes, what does that mean? Living for something. So, can you not just

01:02live instead of living for? Alright, I bring you to a beautiful sunset on the beach. Right?

01:22Right? Okay. And just then somebody tells you that your younger brother who accompanied

01:31you has gone missing. He accompanied you to the beach. But he is one bundle of mischief

01:43and now he has run away. And nobody can locate him. Where is he? And there the beautiful

01:50sun is about to set and the waves are gorgeous. Right? What are you doing now that the boy

02:04is missing? What are you doing now? So, what are you doing now? Right. Now that the boy

02:22is missing, you are looking for the boy. You are looking for the boy. Correct? And the

02:34fellow standing next to you is just looking. He is just looking and everything is just

02:42so damn beautiful. Who is in a better state? You or your neighbor? And other fellow. Because

02:55the sunset now is totally lost on you. You cannot look at the sunset because you are

03:01looking for something. All the glory of life becomes unavailable to you because you are

03:10looking for something in particular. So, living and living for are different things. Looking

03:18and looking for are different things. Listening and listening for are different things. Reading

03:25and reading for are different things. Observing and observing for are different things. So,

03:39many people fail in their observation. I advise them to observe themselves. Self-observation

03:44is the key I say. But they fail. Why? Because they are observing for something. Their observation

03:51is not nishkam. It has a motive. Whereas, observation can succeed only if it is motiveless,

03:56purposeless. You are not looking for something. You are just looking. Just looking. What am I

04:06doing? Just living. Now that does not mean that you are a bum with nothing to do in life. That

04:16simply means that whatever you are doing is not with the purpose of some petty attainment.

04:27I am doing, not doing for. Complete me please. I am doing, not doing for. So,

04:35there is a great difference. Looking and looking for. Doing and doing for. Yes, I am doing this.

04:41I am fighting. Not fighting for. So, Arjun fight. Does he say Arjun fight for victory?

04:55No. Fight. So, look, fight, do, listen. Not fight for. Equally.

05:02Equally. Relate. Not relate for. Love. Not love for. When you love for,

05:12then that's exploitation. When you just love, oh that's cool, smooth.

05:20So, if someone comes to you and says, I love you for whatever. Your eyes or your intelligence.

05:29That's a problem. Take that as some kind of a red signal.

05:41There is a problem there.

05:42Great things must be for their own sake. Not for something that you will get from those things.

06:01And life is a great thing. Is it not? Life is the mother of all great things.

06:07So, life must be for its own sake. Not for something else.

06:13The Kurukshetra fight is a great thing in itself. So, fight.

06:19Not fight for the sake of the riches or the gold or the throne or glory. Nothing.

06:27Just fight. The fight itself is wonderful. Do not fight for something. If you fight for something,

06:34your heart will break. It is not the nature of life to give you what you want.

06:43So, do not needlessly expose yourself to very pitiable vulnerability.

06:54When you start demanding stuff from life, you become pitiable and vulnerable.

07:01Now you stand in front of life like a beggar. No need.

07:04Love with an open heart. Not so that you can get something.

07:21Work. Work like a machine. Not so that you can get something.

07:30If you work for something, again you will get a heartbreak.

07:36Because, Maa Phaleshu Kadachanam, you will never have any handle on what life will serve to you.

07:49Do not look for stuff. Just look.

07:59Sir, but this state we are in, we are making better choices.

08:11So, it feels a very distinct thing to not think to live for or love for something.

08:21Yeah, doesn't it feel like love? To be with the thing for the thing's sake.

08:29Not for something that you will get from the thing.

08:37Or does love sound too alien?

08:50It's just so beautiful. What else?

08:55What do you get by getting up early and watching that red ball rise?

09:06How many dollars or what? A certificate?

09:13A certificate? Right from the sun? Nothing. It's just beautiful in itself.

09:29In itself. I don't care for what happens the next day.

09:35The night itself is so beautiful. Who bothers for the morning?

09:46Let me be dissolved in the night.

09:54Arjun, be dissolved in the fight.

09:56Fight. Die.

10:11Before you bring death to others, Arjun, die.

10:18Die and then fight.

10:20Reminds you of somebody? Ah, that's what. Die and then fight.

10:30So that your fight is not for something.

10:49That does not forbid you from having goals.

11:00That merely tells that no goal should have a meaning bigger than the action itself.

11:11By all means have goals.

11:13But the goal should not be more important than the game itself.

11:27If there is any meaning, the meaning is in the game.

11:32The goal might be achieved in the process of the game. Fine.

11:37But the meaning does not lie in the goal. The meaning lies in the game.

11:44Play with abandon.

11:46But the meaning does not lie in the goal. The meaning lies in the game.

11:54Play with abandon.

12:02Right. You will forget to count the number of goals.

12:11Somebody will have to draw your attention towards the scoreboard.

12:16I got so much into the game, I lost count of goals.

12:35This is not some impractical utopian

12:51fiction.

12:57This is what the greats have lived by. This is the very substance of greatness.

13:04All right.

Facing Inner Emptiness_ Where Do We Find Purpose_ __ Acharya Prashant (2023)

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