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Breaking Through Pride: Finding True Clarity in the Present || Acharya Prashant (2023)
Video Information: 08.06.2023, Gita Samagam English, Greater Noida
📋 Video Chapters
0:00 - Introduction about total change
0:28 - Understanding duality
2:45 - Acknowledge all aspects
5:00 - Start new every day
8:23 - Liberation through change
12:05 - Security hinders growth
16:45 - Pursue unknown growth
Description:
In this insightful discussion, Acharya Prashant emphasizes the importance of embracing change and moving beyond the dualities of pride and disdain in our lives. He highlights that personal growth involves acknowledging both our achievements and shortcomings, suggesting that true value lies within us rather than in external accomplishments. Acharya Prashant encourages listeners to let go of their past attachments and to continuously reinvent themselves each day, treating every morning as a new opportunity for growth.
He argues that clinging to the familiar can lead to stagnation, and that real progress requires a willingness to explore the unknown, even if it brings discomfort. The conversation stresses that assured success can often equate to failure, as it limits our potential for deeper transformation. Instead, Acharya Prashant advocates for embracing experimental failures and setbacks as essential components of the journey toward liberation and self-discovery. Ultimately, he inspires individuals to cultivate an eagerness for change, urging them to reject complacency and to actively seek new experiences that foster personal evolution.
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Breaking Through Pride: Finding True Clarity in the Present || Acharya Prashant (2023)
Video Information: 08.06.2023, Gita Samagam English, Greater Noida
📋 Video Chapters
0:00 - Introduction about total change
0:28 - Understanding duality
2:45 - Acknowledge all aspects
5:00 - Start new every day
8:23 - Liberation through change
12:05 - Security hinders growth
16:45 - Pursue unknown growth
Description:
In this insightful discussion, Acharya Prashant emphasizes the importance of embracing change and moving beyond the dualities of pride and disdain in our lives. He highlights that personal growth involves acknowledging both our achievements and shortcomings, suggesting that true value lies within us rather than in external accomplishments. Acharya Prashant encourages listeners to let go of their past attachments and to continuously reinvent themselves each day, treating every morning as a new opportunity for growth.
He argues that clinging to the familiar can lead to stagnation, and that real progress requires a willingness to explore the unknown, even if it brings discomfort. The conversation stresses that assured success can often equate to failure, as it limits our potential for deeper transformation. Instead, Acharya Prashant advocates for embracing experimental failures and setbacks as essential components of the journey toward liberation and self-discovery. Ultimately, he inspires individuals to cultivate an eagerness for change, urging them to reject complacency and to actively seek new experiences that foster personal evolution.
🎧 Listen to Acharya Prashant on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2QmVEAA...
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00:00Sir, you talked about total change, so I have been hearing Jidur Krishnamurthy also talked
00:09about but this became very clear today and why is it difficult because you said that
00:12we are proud of some things and we and other things we disdain.
00:16So what is the way ahead like for example we are proud of few things about ourselves,
00:23so do we need to look into them and find out the flaws which probably are subtle or what
00:27is…
00:28It's like moving to the next quantum level, the next orbit, fine, I have come to a certain
00:34place, I am proud of the place I have come to, coming to this place has involved its
00:40own struggles and its own share of tribulations, trials and everything else but it's a mixed
00:47bag, that's what duality is, right, always a mixed bag.
00:53So now, all right, this is the mixed bag, now can I just keep the bag aside and begin
00:59something afresh but that's not how the mind wants to operate, it sticks to a few things
01:08in the bag and you put your hand inside the bag for that one or two units, pieces that
01:17you like and what do you get?
01:21Everything that's in the bag, you cannot be partially attached to a few things, you will
01:28get everything in the bag, you have to keep everything aside, if the process has really
01:39given you something valuable, it's not there in the bag, it's there in your heart, if the
01:50whole journey has actually benefited you, it would have benefited you in the internal
01:57sense, not in the sense of what you have gained by way of accomplishments in your hand, no,
02:06so that entire bag can be kept aside and you say, yes, whatsoever was worthy of being
02:17taken from the process till now, I'm 35 years of age now, these 35 years have, if they have
02:22really given me anything worthwhile, it's now there within me, so it's there within
02:30me and I can proceed on the back of that, I'll use that and I'll move to the next quanta,
02:41next orbit.
02:45The bottom line is, it is futile to expect that you can have one thing and not the other,
02:56that is just impossible, have you ever seen a person with half a face, the left cheek
03:09is there, the right is not, if the left is there, the right too will be there, there
03:14might be some difference, fine, but left cannot exist without the right, that has to be understood.
03:27So, acknowledge both, I'm proud of the way I got all that I cherish in my journey so
03:37far and I also see that I got a few other things, now it's time to move on, move on
03:47and this moving on must be a constant process, everyday process, everyday, every morning
03:55I wake up, I keep my old self behind or aside, when I say it's time to move on, move on,
04:06keep moving on, keep moving on, keep putting the old self behind you and take a step further,
04:17you are not obliged to carry your past on your shoulders, right, be it good or bad,
04:29fine, see if there was any worth in what life has given me so far, that worth can anyway
04:36not be taken away, that worth now sits here, so all the other things I can safely just
04:42you know, visarjan, I had this and now mother river, prakriti, you take it back, today is
04:53a new day, today is a new birth, let me try something new, can I become better, can I
05:04move to the next orbit, is it mandatory to repeat the day gone by, is it mandatory, then
05:13why must you repeat the same nonsense every passing day, why do you find yourself obliged
05:20to be the same old self, that's called spiritual entrepreneurship, to start a new life every
05:33morning and to exit it every night, serial entrepreneur, I start a firm every morning
05:44and I quit my own venture every night and then I restart, this is not just poetry, this has practicality.
05:57So, it is like when you talk about the bad things, you still want to get rid of, for example,
06:04you have been late, but then the good things looks, not possible, not possible, it is not possible to
06:10separate it that way, the good things may have been so-called spiritually correct,
06:25if there is real goodness, it stays here, so don't be afraid, you are not anyway leaving
06:36anything behind or you could say I am only leaving the nonsense behind, because all the
06:43goodness I will anyway carry with me, the goodness is the heart itself, so don't be afraid.
06:55Returning to the old self is the worst kind of boredom, what's your favourite movie?
07:13The Godfather.
07:14How many times have you seen it?
07:18Five-six times.
07:22How about the movie called Rohit Rajdhan, The Godfather, you keep watching that movie
07:33every day without ever getting bored, so a point must come when you simply get bored
07:44of yourself, the nonsense again, you look at yourself and say get lost.
07:55Reinventing yourself is very important, in fact, even very external measures like changing
08:06your hairstyle or your wardrobe or whatever, learning a new skill, a new language, whatever,
08:16obviously these are external and therefore a bit trivial, but even they matter, the hell
08:24of life is repetitiveness, same things over and over again, same words, same habits, same
08:34clothes, same places, same, same, just the sameness and why the sameness?
08:45Because there is security in sameness and there is a little bit of happiness in sameness
08:55and because sameness stands proven.
09:10Sometimes one must change things just for the heck of it, you go to a cafe, you order
09:19something, you do not know what it is, that's okay, that's okay, at most you will reject
09:26that item and some 200 rupees will be lost, every time you go there and you say Chola
09:31Kulcha, what is that nonsense, 20,000 times he has ordered Chola Kulcha, still ordering
09:38the same thing, try some new dresses, some new places, moving on is being bored of oneself,
09:59allow yourself to be bored of yourself, I am not saying that real newness lies in getting
10:25new kind of hairstyle or whatever, but I am saying even this is better than rotting
10:34in the same oldness.
10:36Sir, you said just while answering a question that every morning you should have something
10:52new to be done, I mean and something new projects should be taken steps, like then
11:00you explained us that even getting different type of food, different type of clothes or
11:09whatever it is, it has to be something different and you should get bored of yourself, whatever
11:16your routine life is, but number one is what the confusion is coming to me is, it is more
11:25of internal thoughts, internal things has to be changed.
11:29It is not that today I am brushing with Colgate, tomorrow I am having a Neem Datun, I mean
11:36it is not like that, it's just an example.
11:40But how to have, because my thought process is a continuous thought process which is going
11:45on, how to have radical change in that thought process, because whatever will come, will
11:51come from the past only.
11:52What I am suggesting Rohit is that if you are so resistant to change that you cannot
11:59even change your wardrobe, how will you allow anything else in life to change, we categorically
12:06said that all these things we are talking of, food and clothes and hairstyle, these
12:13are external and trivial, these are external and trivial.
12:19The question is if one does not have the courage or the intention to bring even trivial change
12:26in life, how will one bring deeper change in life, that's the question.
12:35I am not saying that deeper change will necessarily follow external change because there are lot
12:40of people who keep changing their hairstyles every second month and yet there is no real
12:49inner change, we know of all that.
12:53But the point to be conveyed is that there has to be a resistance to sameness because
13:02sameness is security, sameness is stagnation, in some sense sameness is what you would classically
13:11call as Tamsikta, is it not?
13:18Even to achieve the same successes over and over again, please tell me how is it not Tamsikta?
13:26So I am saying even to attain the same successes again and again, how is it not Tamsikta?
13:38If Tamsikta is about settling down at a sub-optimal place, so how is it not the same kind of inertia
13:47to repeat your successes, your proven and secure successes again and again?
13:56In business that often happens, right?
13:59If you are an established firm, then you have a formula for success, you know the market,
14:04you already know things in advance that would lead to success, it's not as if you are playing
14:09in the dark, how is that not Tamsikta?
14:16And wherever there is a lot of security, there is death, death in some sense is the
14:24final security, is it not?
14:27Guaranteed, assured, nothing at risk there, nothing in terms of probability is there.
14:36So it is the final assurance, somebody asks you, will there be death?
14:41You say the probability is 1.00, absolute certainty.
14:48So if you are looking for even an assured kind of formulaic success, that is just the
14:57antithesis of life.
15:04It is better to have experimental failures and setbacks rather than having assured successes.
15:18Try this thing out, do that, do this, what I see Sanjitji and you know I'm not that kind
15:26of a seer or something, but just with my mortal eyes what I can see on the screen is
15:37what you call as NUI, a sense of boredom, there is not much vigour that I see and if
15:55that great destination is to be achieved, that great destination called Atma or liberation,
16:02then one requires a lot of energy.
16:06You cannot travel all the way without having the requisite energy.
16:13How can you lose energy in the middle of the process?
16:20The face must be radiating with an eagerness, the eagerness to go all the way, the eagerness
16:29to change tracks when and where needed.
16:43I repeat, assured success is another name for failure.
16:49I do agree.
16:53So even if it is coming very easily to you, reject it.
17:01If you are established in one kind of game and you know very well now the tricks of the
17:05game, stop playing that game.
17:11What fun is there anymore?
17:19So going to unknown territory, unknown terrain and being in two different maps.
17:27Not just unknown, higher and unknown.
17:36Unknown could also mean doing, you know, now going and joining the Mafioso in Italy.
17:44That too is something unknown to you.
17:46So not just unknown, higher and unknown.
17:55And in that there will be fear and a lot of wonderment, a feeling of insecurity.
18:05But that's what keeps one young, no?
18:17Definitely sir, I will act upon it.
18:19There may not be a radiation of energies, but definitely I know myself, I have a lot
18:25of energy towards achieving this goal.
18:28And I'm glad you will and all my best wishes.
18:34And the face has already begun to radiate.