Full Video: How to get rid of addictions? || Acharya Prashant (2016)
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00:00In the office, you are Mr. Nice.
00:02In front of the wife, you are Mr. Submissive.
00:05Then in the bar, you will be the most raucous and unmanageable drinker.
00:10Breaking bottles, throwing tantrums, inviting brawls.
00:14The mind knows that it is suffering in one condition.
00:16But it is not intelligent enough to know that the opposite condition is no better.
00:20And even if it does know theoretically, it cannot help it.
00:22Because the mind lives in duality.
00:24So if I do not like A, the only option that I have is to move to the opposite of A.
00:29The mind does not have the option to move beyond A.
00:33So sitting here, it starts feeling suffocated.
00:36It jumps to this place.
00:37Here again it feels equally suffocated.
00:39It again wants to do this and this and this.
00:41This is what we call as life.
00:42The option to sublimate, to rise beyond both A and B, somehow does not come to the mind.
00:48It is possible, but it does not come so easily.