Beyond Goals： Being present in Daily Responsibilities ｜｜ Acharya Prashant (2023) [5uqSheqIv88]

Acharya Prashant

Beyond Goals: Being Present in Daily Responsibilities || Acharya Prashant (2023)  📅 Video Information:  Date: 08.06.2023 Event: Gita Samagam English Location: Goa  📋 Video Chapters  0:00 - Introduction: Goals and Their Meaning 0:30 - Question: Living Without Motive in Daily Life 1:25 - Goals vs. Meaning: A Practical Approach 5:20  Finding Meaning Within Life, Not Objects 9:11 - Ego’s Stories and the Imagination of Death  🎥 Video Description:  In this insightful video, Acharya Ji shares how to live free from attachment to goals while gaining a deeper understanding of life and death. He explains that while setting goals is a practical necessity, attaching excessive meaning to them leads to stress and disappointment. Real happiness arises from enjoying the process rather than seeking fulfillment through achievements. Life’s true essence lies within the individual, not in external outcomes or material success.  Acharya Ji also discusses the ego’s fear of death, explaining it as an imagined concept. While physical death is observable, the ego fabricates myths and fears about what lies beyond the body’s demise. By breaking free from these illusions, one can live with greater clarity and inner peace.  Discover how to release mental constructs, embrace life’s unpredictability, and live with purpose and awareness. Watch now for transformative wisdom!  🎧 Listen to Acharya Prashant on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2QmVEAA...

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00:00There be goals. Goals are not an issue. But the goals should not carry meanings.

00:06Financial, physical sustenance, that's all going to the gym.

00:09The goal has to be a meaningless goal. But if you'll start looking for meaning in this shop,

00:15all you will get is a lot of disappointment. Life is a meaningless affair,

00:20which means that meaning, if any, is contained within life, not in the objects of life.

00:30Sir, so in that you said that just look without looking for anything.

00:37So I can understand a little bit of it because even Krishnamurthy keep on saying this thing

00:43time and again, that just look without giving any name to the drish that you are looking at.

00:51But when I implement this thing in my day to day life, I can't see my day without

01:00looking for any motive. So tomorrow is Monday. If I wake up tomorrow and as soon as I'll be,

01:09I'll gain my consciousness. I have many motives in front of me, right?

01:13I need to log in for my office. I need to cook breakfast. I need to go outside for gym.

01:19So how can I just look without having any motive in my day to day life?

01:26When we talked of that, we said that let there be goals. Goals are not an issue.

01:34But the goals should not carry meanings. The meaning either lies nowhere at all,

01:43or you could say the meaning lies in the game, not in the goal.

01:49So in your day to day life, practically, obviously you will have these goals. You

01:53have to go to a workplace. You have to go to this thing, that thing. Fine. Those goals are there.

01:58But you have to remember that ultimately going to a workplace yields you nothing.

02:03Maybe financial, physical sustenance, that's all. Going to the gym,

02:07in the final sense, yields you nothing. So the illusion of meaning has to be destroyed.

02:20The ego will otherwise keep looking for meaning where there can be no meaning.

02:26And in that lies a lot of suffering. So there is a goal. Alright. There is a goal. But the goal,

02:34and this might sound strange, but try to understand. The goal has to be a meaningless goal.

02:43And when I say meaningless, I mean desireless. There can be, there can be

02:50no desire as such towards the goal. No fulfillment is possible from the goal.

02:57If the goal is achieved, your inner state remains one way. If the goal is not achieved,

03:05then your inner state must remain the same way. The fun must lie in the game, not in the goal.

03:15Are you getting it? Obviously, one has a goal. There are so many people attending this session.

03:21I travel to this place for the session. So there are goals of that kind.

03:26The problem is when we attach unreasonable meanings to those goals,

03:38then, as Shri Krishna said today, pleasure becomes happiness.

03:45Then that which is not possible from a thing,

03:53the thing starts standing for that. And then there will be a lot of disappointment and heartbreak.

04:02You want to go to that shop, go there. Fine. And we all go to shops every day. You want to go to

04:09that shop, go there. But you should not expect to purchase meaning there. Because there is no

04:14meaning there. There is just the shop. You go to the shop, you want something, you want some

04:19washing powder, get washing powder from the shop. All right, finished.

04:25There can be no meaning there. And the world is a mega shop.

04:29There are things there. But if you start looking for meaning in this shop,

04:33all you will get is a lot of disappointment.

04:39Unfortunately, even when we get disappointment, we do not get disillusionment.

04:46So in spite of the disappointment, the illusion continues,

04:51which is quite strange. So many disappointments, yet the illusion continues. Nobody is disillusioned

04:58So many disappointments, yet the illusion continues. Nobody is disillusioned ever.

05:03You will meet people and say, oh, I am so disappointed. But you will never meet someone

05:07who will say, now I am disillusioned. People are never disillusioned. So they think, you know,

05:13the meaning that they wanted was not available in one particular shop.

05:18So they will rush to the next shop. There is no meaning anywhere. It does not mean anything.

05:25Life is a meaningless affair, which means that meaning, if any, is contained within life,

05:33not in the objects of life. You must understand that life ultimately is just a meaningless thing.

05:42You might drop dead tomorrow. Tell me, what is the meaning of life?

05:47Covid came and so many, several lakhs, millions perished. What is the meaning of life? Please

05:51tell me. Is there any meaning to life? There is no meaning to life. Life is random. No meaning there.

06:00And equally it can be said that meaning lies within the living one. It does not lie

06:08in the objects of life. Things happen, events happen. There is no meaning there.

06:14Look at them with equanimity. Yeah, things are happening. What is happening? Things are happening.

06:19No meaning. So something happened and then somebody says, what does that mean? Oh, nothing.

06:26I lost 10 lakh rupees. Ah, what does that mean? Nothing. The loss is real. The meaning is not.

06:35The loss is real. It will reflect in your bank statement. You lost 10 lakh rupees.

06:40But is there any meaning to that? No, there is no meaning.

06:43Will you file a complaint now? Obviously, you must. Will you try to recover it with the bank?

06:48Obviously, you must. But even if you recover it, is there some meaning?

06:52No. So play the game. Let the meaning be there in the game, not in the goal.

07:02So, I should just remember that my, the final motive or final desire of my life is to become

07:11a good person. My final desire of my inner self is just to destroy my inner bondages, right?

07:16So whatever I'm doing outside, if that is helping me with that,

07:22then that is my correct action. Otherwise, any other action doesn't make sense.

07:30Yes, if you can identify your inner bondages, obviously,

07:35there will be an impetus to challenge them and get rid of them. And that's

07:40all very nice.

07:48Okay, I got the answer. So while writing down the notes, I have written one statement that

07:55death is an imagination for the ego. So I can relate that death is an imagination for me. My

08:05death is an imagination for me, right? Because when I die, experience is no more there to

08:11experience the thing, right? But death in general is not an imagination for me because I can see

08:19the other person dying. If I take example of you or me in this situation, then my death can be an

08:27imagination for me, but your death can't be an imagination for me. I can see you going.

08:33So how death is an imagination? Do you know what happened when the man fell down?

08:42All you can see is the coconut falling, right? All else is imagination.

08:51All else is imagination. How do you know what really happened?

08:56And if you do not know what really happened, your definition of death will be limited

09:02to the fall of the coconut. The body only.

09:08Obviously. But when the ego thinks of death,

09:19what is it scared of? Reflect on it. Just the body dropping?

09:26It is scared of something else, right?

09:29Did you see that something else happening?

09:35What did you see? The body is going.

09:39The body is dropping. Now the ego was scared of death and what the ego was scared of was just not

09:46the body dropping, but something else. Reflect on this. In the moments when you are scared of death,

09:55in the moments when you are scared of death, what are you scared of? That the body will fall?

09:59Is that what you are scared of? No.

10:04There is something else that you are scared of, right? Right, right.

10:09Now you see a man dying.

10:13Now you see a man dying. Have you seen that something else happened to that man? No.

10:21You have just seen the coconut fall.

10:24That something else is an imagination. How do you know that something else has happened?

10:35So, whatever you are saying that ego is concerned with,

10:42ego is just not concerned with the body, but something else.

10:45Obviously, and that's the reason. And that's the reason why the ego must weave

10:53a lot of imaginary stories that when somebody dies, something from within flies to the other

11:00body and to the other universe. Doesn't this tell you that death is an imagination? Otherwise,

11:04why was there a need to weave all these imaginary stories?

11:07Okay, I got the answer. Thank you.

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