The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): I have a dilemma related to material progress. When I have debates with my friends and relatives who are good with academics and meditate sometimes, they are of the view that any kind of development…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): Many of my friends say that optimal allocation of resources is the best way to achieve success. How can spirituality help us achieve the optimal allocation of resources so that we may achieve success easily? …

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): I want to talk about being committed to our decisions. Let’s say, for example, I decide that I will stop eating junk food from today, or rather minimize my consumption of junk food. But what…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): I seem to be moving from the so-called liberal, open, to a highly moralistic type of woman. It is a movement from one end to the other. But nothing has changed actually. I may just…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. He may be here, and he may call her. But like many others she may not hear. -Khalil Gibran Question (Q): Why can’t he hear? What stops him from hearing? Acharya Prashant (AP): He is asking, “When…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): Sir, it is also not incidental that man has, throughout history, connected otherworldliness with Truth or God, I mean this is the way that things have been propounded, right, in all the religions, in all…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): ‘If you want to love, you have to love a man with all his limitations.‘ That’s the quote. ‘If you want to love, you have to love a man with all his limitations.’ The…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Question (Q): Dear Sir, I have read many theories on mind given by many philosophers. I have observed that these theories complicate the mind rather than simplify. What is the need for such elaborate theories based on…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Question (Q): Ashtavakra talks about being desireless, dispassionate, and egoless. A wise man is defined to possess all these virtues. But how? Acharya Prashant (AP): See, look at the wordings. You are saying Ashtavakra talks about being…