The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
यदि देहं पृथक् कृत्य चिति विश्राम्य तिष्ठसि।
अधुनैव सुखी शान्तो बन्धमुक्तो भविष्यसि॥
– अष्टावक्र गीता (१.४)
Translation: If you detach yourself from the body and rest in consciousness, you will become content, peaceful and free from bondage…
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Question: Is imagination more important or knowledge?
Acharya Prashant (AP): There are two words and we will understand the difference between them. One is imagination, the other is creativity.
Imagination means that I am living confined by…
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
अर्जुन उवाच।
नष्टो मोह: स्मृतिर्लब्धा त्वत्प्रसादान्मयाच्युत।
स्थितोऽस्मि गतसन्देह: करिष्ये वचनं तव।।
arjuna uvācha
naṣhṭo mohaḥ smṛitir labdhā tvat-prasādān mayāchyuta
sthito ‘smi gata-sandehaḥ kariṣhye vachanaṁ tava
Arjuna said: O infallible one, by your grace my illusion has been…
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
You asked me how I became a mad man. It happened thus: one day, long before many Gods were born, I woke up from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen- the seven masks…
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal, and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying…
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Questioner (Q): What is attachment?
Acharya Prashant (AP): The way our brain is constituted, has nothing of its own. If you ask the brain, “Who are you?” It will not be able to say anything if it…
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, you once said that motivation and ambitions are symptoms of suffering but I think if one lives with ambition, the journey will teach him a lot. Life will become disarrayed. Please explain.
Acharya…
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Questioner: Pranam Acharya Ji! I somehow know that you are beyond what I, as a person, can know and experience. Not that I want to leave you or go somewhere else, however, why do I feel fear…
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Questioner (Q): Why do people commit suicide?
Acharya Prashant (AP): They still have a lot of hope. They feel that suicide would redeem them. They have not given up everything. They are still carrying a lot of…
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Acharya Prashant (AP): You see, we often say that suffering is when things start cluttering the mind. Kabir Sahab says, “Maya is that which occupies your mind.” We need to ask, “To whom is the occupation?” Let’s…
