Choose the Right Path || Acharya Prashant

There was this girl and she loved the palace of the kings, the imperial palace. And she asked her father, “How do I reach there?”
The father says, “You’ll have to work hard. You must be the best student. You must learn all the arts. Then you must join the king’s bureaucracy. You must clear the entrance exam. And then through your work, wisdom, and devotion, you must rise through the ranks. And when the throne is waken, then because of your powers, your worth, and your mate, you are chosen or elected to be on the throne.”

The girl said fine. She started doing what the father had suggested that is the right process. But laziness soon overpowered her. She refused to take the right route. And what is the route then she took? She decided to become a seductress. And that is easy. She seduced the king. Got the king to somehow marry her. Became the queen. Easy.

But now who is she in that palace?
Has she entered the palace on her birth?
Now she is almost like the king’s harlot. the king is using she’s nothing but a decorated mass of flesh and that is death. One death would have been if she would have ascended to the throne through merit and devotion. That would have been the death of the old self. And this is another kind of death when you sell yourself to a king and that’s easy and that would be the worst death that you can get. Choose the right death. Please give death to your laziness.

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