The Game of Desire || Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Our desires are mostly blind.

00:01 Do we really know why we want what we want?

00:03 Sometimes we follow the crowd.

00:05 Sometimes there is the trend.

00:06 Sometimes there is just pure ignorance,

00:08 an instinct, an impulse arising from the body.

00:11 Or your past, or your experiences,

00:13 or the pressures the society applies on you.

00:15 And you just run after something.

00:17 Be it an educational degree,

00:19 be it a particular type of career,

00:20 a job offer, a thing,

00:22 something in the market,

00:23 a new dress, a new vehicle,

00:24 a new phone, a new gadget.

00:26 We don't even take the pains to understand

00:29 what's going on within.

00:30 Instead, we respond with brevado.

00:33 What? You know, love is blind.

00:34 If you are chasing something

00:36 without knowing what is going on,

00:38 you will very soon find yourself

00:41 out of motivation, exhausted,

00:43 and in a great pile of self-doubt.

00:46 And the result might also be

00:47 then lack of self-worth.

00:50 Because if repeatedly you keep making targets

00:53 and missing them,

00:54 very soon your internal self-image

00:57 becomes one of a loser.

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