Playing the Victim || Acharya Prashant

The solution to our everyday problems || Acharya Prashant at IIT-Delhi (2022)

Transcript

00:00Remember, it somehow suits us to play the victim.

00:04We want to act as if life has been hard on us.

00:08We want to give too much importance to our circumstances.

00:12Your entire domain is your own kingdom.

00:16I mean the internal one.

00:17Outside, things can happen in their own random way.

00:22Internally, you can be the master.

00:24Irrespective of how things are outside.

00:27Internally, you can remain untouched, undisturbed.

00:30And that's a very powerful state to be in.

00:32Otherwise, there is no dearth of problems.

00:34When one is not alright inside,

00:37then problems appear from all possible directions outside.