Full Video: If life feels alright, how to be motivated for change? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Delhi (2022)
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00:00Think of the, of the bandit who was called Ratnakar at that time.
00:05I am Ratnakar.
00:07Dacoit Ratnakar and then he became the sage Valmiki.
00:10He asked his wife, he said, you partake in all the riches I bring home
00:14and tomorrow if I rot in hell, will you suffer with me?
00:17And he too was fortunate to have a wife who candidly admitted, no, dear one.
00:23Are you involved in my sins?
00:25No, my lord.
00:27That you have to bear all alone.
00:29I won't accompany you.
00:31Now that's the kind of question most persons don't ask their spouses.
00:36That's where we feel we are in a happy and comfortable and settled place.
00:40You are in a settled place only as long as you are not asking those honest questions.
00:45The thing is we are so afraid of honesty and those questions
00:49because we know that our fragile peace would simply shatter the moment real inquiry happens.
00:56Husband asks these questions to the wife
00:58and after that you have a huge war for the next seven days.
01:03So you just want to avoid all that.
01:05You don't want to ask those questions.