The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Question (Q): Sir, how can we relate in love? Acharya Prashant (AP): Let us take a very basic kind of example, starting from what we usually interpret as ‘love’. Suppose there is a friend, and you love…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): You see you’re young. Right? If you love somebody, do you want to chain him or her? Listeners(everyone): No, Sir. AP: Even a pet dog. Do you like to keep the dog in a…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Question: What role do examples, ideals, and role models play in this process of conditioning? Acharya Prashant: Role models play a very important, an extremely important role. Since childhood, these great images are given to us. These…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): This is a camera (holding a smartphone in hand, pointing towards the camera), and let’s say that there is something written over here (pointing at the wall). I want to let it come to…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): What a beautiful name you have Sakshi, and this is the basic difference between a person and an individual. The individual has साक्षी भाव (witness) and the person doesn’t have it. Let’s look at…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): Dissatisfied how do you feel? Tell me. Listener (L): Sir, I feel afraid, I feel insecure, and a lot of questions. AP: Right, you feel afraid, you feel insecure and a lot of questions…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): Alok is asking what one should do to be a good engineer. I will elaborate it, “What one should do to be good at anything?”, now the question means what does it mean to…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): This Question is in two parts: One: What is the difference, the essential difference between any two human beings? Two: Why does everyone want happiness? Acharya Prashant (AP): The difference between any two human beings…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): Amit says, ‘Assuming that I have to go to a place where there are all foolish men, how can I retain my individuality there?’ First of all the individual does not have to go…