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1 day ago

The false promise of fulfillment through experience

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): Sir, does fulfillment come by experiencing everything completely? Acharya Prashant (AP): What is everything? Do you have to go somewhere and experience it, or is it anyway happening daily? Whenever somebody says, “I need to…

Sex

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The false promise of fulfillment through experience
The false promise of fulfillment through experience

2 days ago

Gratification would be; contentment is

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Question (Q): Should we delay our gratification? If yes, then to what extent and for how long? Acharya Prashant (AP): By delay, you mean time, to put it ahead in time. Man uses time itself for gratification…

Gratitude

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Gratification would be; contentment is
Gratification would be; contentment is

3 days ago

Discipline — that which breaks the patterns

Question (Q): Isn’t it contradictory that I need to discipline myself in order to realize Freedom? Acharya Prashant (AP): The one, who has a strong sense of bondage, only he needs to be freed; who else? The one who is abiding in freedom requires no freedom. Freedom is his very…

Discipline

11 min read

Discipline — that which breaks the patterns
Discipline — that which breaks the patterns

4 days ago

What is it to be human?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): So let us just talk about what is it to be human. What is it to be human? To be human is to be two and yet be one. To be human is to…

Humanity

3 min read

What is it to be human?
What is it to be human?

5 days ago

Let ‘Direct observation’ not become a convenient excuse

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): There is this question about direct observation and how the world when ‘directly’ observed appears muddled up, appears quite confusing. There is a question that what is all this. One of the aspects of…

Self

8 min read

Let ‘Direct observation’ not become a convenient excuse
Let ‘Direct observation’ not become a convenient excuse

5 days ago

How do I know whether I am aware?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): How to know whether I am aware? Acharya Prashant (AP): What you call as ‘knowing’ is just thinking. It is a mental activity. Do you know of anything that is beyond the mind? You know…

Awareness

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How do I know whether I am aware?
How do I know whether I am aware?

Jun 21

With youth: Competition, Planning, Career

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): Manoj asks, ‘Given that there is so much competition, how do I plan my career?’ Manoj, can I solve a problem if I do not understand it? Can I solve a problem if I…

Competition

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With youth: Competition, Planning, Career
With youth: Competition, Planning, Career

Jun 20

IIT Delhi: The incomplete comes to completeness by dissolution

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): Sir, is there an absolute notion of what is right and what is wrong? Acharya Prashant (AP): All rights and wrongs, everything in the universe, exists for you. So, all rightness is with respect to…

Faith

6 min read

IIT Delhi: The incomplete comes to completeness by dissolution
IIT Delhi: The incomplete comes to completeness by dissolution

Jun 19

IIT Delhi: Joy is the pleasure of ascension

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): Is pleasure a necessity for humans? Do we as human beings need pleasure for survival, to be sane? Acharya Prashant (AP): What is pleasure, first of all? See, we all operate at a certain level…

Joy

7 min read

IIT Delhi: Joy is the pleasure of ascension
IIT Delhi: Joy is the pleasure of ascension

Jun 18

IIT Kanpur: Freedom is your nature — will you choose it?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): If awareness is our true nature, then why don’t we have a natural inclination towards it? Why do we get so easily overpowered by our bodily tendencies? Acharya Prashant (AP): Awareness might be your nature…

Freedom

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IIT Kanpur: Freedom is your nature — will you choose it?
IIT Kanpur: Freedom is your nature — will you choose it?
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