Full Video: How to live, and not just survive? || Acharya Prashant, at St. Xavier's, Mumbai (2022)
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00:00How to actually live and not just survive.
00:02So like when I'm on my deathbed, I know that my life was worthy enough.
00:07You ask someone, why do you work so much? Is there joy in your work?
00:10Is it a mission you're working for?
00:12Do you want to bring about a substantial change within you or in the world?
00:16And if the answer is no, they say, no, we work
00:19so that we can feed ourselves, our family, take care of needs
00:23and also provide for our desires and ambitions.
00:26Then that's called as mere survival, just survival.
00:29Most of my effort goes towards taking care of my stomach,
00:35my body, my clothes, my accommodation and the remaining part,
00:39the excess amount that I earn.
00:41I spend that to take care of my desires, my pleasures.
00:46This is mere survival. What is real life then?
00:50Real life is when the body, the physicality is not the end,
00:55but the means. To live to feed the body is much the same
01:00as buying a car to keep refueling it.
01:04What does the car do? It goes from the home to the fuel station
01:09and comes back to the home. The car moves so that the car can be fueled.
01:14The fellow goes to office so that his stomach can be fueled.