Mentally Healthy || Acharya Prashant

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Transcript

00:00Mental health today is a bigger problem than any other disease of the body.

00:05Obviously not without reason.

00:06Obviously then you have to get into and inquire everything that affects the mind.

00:12Because the mind cannot just get sick on its own.

00:15Surely there are influences, surely there are conditions that are pushing it into sickness.

00:20And if you start inquiring into those conditions, the entire world order will come crashing down.

00:25You will have to question our economics, our education,

00:28our social institutions, our politics, everything.

00:31We live in make-believe worlds, we live in bubbles.

00:34Within those bubbles, there is a degree of comfort, security, etc.

00:37But those bubbles can be punctured anytime.

00:39It's just that in this limited phase in which we are living,

00:44the bubbles are not being punctured very regularly.

00:47Yet life keeps testing us in small ways and facts have a way of showing up.

00:54When facts show up, then our concepts and imaginations are badly hurt, sometimes shattered.