Full Video: How Gita Transforms Your Mind? || Acharya Prashant, Conversion with Sid Warrier (2024)
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00:00In today's world of social media, our identity has never been more fluid.
00:04You see somebody with a fancy car, you suddenly assume the identity of someone with a fancy car.
00:11And now not having a fancy car gives us sadness.
00:14The problem with this fluidity is that it is an imposed fluidity,
00:20born out of helplessness of the one it is being imposed on.
00:25Lack of self-knowledge can lead to all kinds of anxieties.
00:28If I take myself to be what I am not, I'll expect myself to do things that I can't.
00:35I think of myself as a bird and now I'm anxious that I cannot fly.
00:40The thing is you are not a bird at all.
00:42The moment you realize that, the anxiety is gone.