With youth: How to get rid of the dirt on my essence?

Acharya Prashant
3 min readNov 4, 2022

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: Sir, you said that we already have that essence, that richness and it is covered with dirt. How do we remove that dirt?

Acharya Prashant (AP): The first step is to know that the dirt is ‘dirt’. Let us go closer and examine the dirt. What is the dirt? The dirt that you are talking of is the concepts, the belief systems, and the thoughts that have been given to you by others. Who are these others? Examine your life, all of you, and tell me that who are these others who have given thoughts, beliefs and concepts to you.

Listener 1 (L1): Parents.

AP: Society, friends.

L2: Media.

AP: Media and …?

L3: Relatives.

AP: Relatives, religion, philosophy, media, books- these are the sources from where the dirt has come to you. What is the definition of dirt?

Anything that is external is dirt, because the internal richness is already with you.

What others have given to you is also the concept. The concept that what parents say is sacred, what education gives to you is final, what religion says is the word of God. The dirt is carries beautiful and…

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