Unveiling Your True Worth || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Pranam Acharya ji, so sir my question is that when I am seeing doing something like telling

00:09people like what is correct or what is not correct, I am seeing that you know deep down

00:15there is desire within me like an ego tendency, that's not very like promoting veganism or

00:26kind of something, so when I am saying to my parents don't eat milk products, so it's

00:32not about that don't eat milk products, I just want to gain kind of respect in the eyes

00:38of my parents, so what I am seeing it is, so there is a deep ego tendency within me,

00:43so when I am seeing that I am seeing that I am such a worthless person, so why should

00:48I promote the service of truth and all that like I am not worth of it, I have this kind

00:53of feeling when I am doing these things. Why should you serve the truth when you are

01:00a worthless person, you should serve the truth exactly because you are a worthless person,

01:12how else will you become worthy? One becomes worthy by committing to the right thing, what

01:30else is the definition of worth, value, value is always in context of the evaluator, a thing

01:44holds value to you when that thing can raise your consciousness, elevation of consciousness

02:00is the only real value addition, all else is just accessories and only the pursuit

02:16of truth can elevate your consciousness, so if you feel that inwardly you are at some

02:28lowly point, then it becomes even more important for you to chase the truth, what does it mean

02:37to chase the truth, is the truth hidden somewhere, some kind of treasure heard or something,

02:43what do we mean by chasing the truth, identifying the false and having the courage to drop it,

02:54chasing the truth is not like a treasure hunt, it is not like chasing a job or money or something else,

03:02remember Vedanta proceeds through neti neti, through negation, so chasing the truth means

03:19not chasing the false, identify what is false in your life, what is deceptive in your life

03:25and then like a man drop it, what is the definition of falseness, that which is not what it appears

03:42to be is false, that which is not what it appears to be is false, does falseness lie

03:51in the thing, I think this is a rocket launcher and then you come and convince me that this

04:05is just a humble pen, so I should vent my rage on the pen and destroy it, because the

04:18pen was false and fooled me, does falseness lie in the thing, in the object that you perceive,

04:28I thought this is a rocket launcher, who should be destroyed, this thing, the desire driven

04:39perceiver, I am fond of space travel, so even a pen appears like a rocket or something,

04:58my desire is skewing my vision, totally distorting it, anything that I see is just not what I take

05:15it to be, things are not to be blamed, so when we say chase the truth, we mean identify the false

05:25and drop it, what is to be dropped, the one within that just cannot see the reality of things,

05:35see how we are our own enemy, see how we create castles out of thin air and when they collapse,

05:52we curse the world, most of the castles we build in life have no foundation at all,

06:01any wonder they collapse, but we are so fond of castles, we just build them, if I can't have it,

06:15I can imagine it, I want a divine fairy in my life, so what do I do, I close in on the next door girl

06:36and declare her to be the divine fairy and then I'll say beauty is in the eyes of the beholder

06:45and love is blind and such things, if I can't have what I want, I'll imagine it, that's my state,

06:56that's called dishonesty, that's what is falseness, that's what needs to be dropped, the girl next

07:03door might actually be a nice human being, but she is in no way the fairy of your dreams, however if

07:15you can drop the fairy obsession, you might get a decent friend in her, are you getting it,

07:26dropping the false is not about playing morally superior and breaking up with all and sundry

07:41saying I'm on a mission to drop the false, after all I'm a spiritual person, AP told me to drop all

07:52falseness, so I'm dropping my mother, my scooter, my hand, my pen, I'm on a dropping spree, everything

08:05has to be dropped, drop everything, but just do not drop the dropper, things are just things,

08:26people are just people, they are not the meanings that you assign to them and remember the meanings

08:32that you assign to them hardly arise from those things of people or objects, the meanings arise

08:39from your own desirous state and when desires are not fulfilled, who do we blame, the objects, but

08:54the object never really promised on its own that it's the thing that you want, you kept telling the

09:03object you are my fairy, in fact the object was always a bit puzzled, fairy me really, but then

09:17she accepted and fine, I mean it's like a gift in love and sounds nice no, fairy, after a while in

09:28her own eyes she became the fairy, inquire, inquire, drop, drop, drop what, not the things in your life

09:52but your perception of them, just as there is nothing worthy of being attached to equally and

10:07obviously there is nothing that deserves your hatred and it's obvious that attachment and

10:18hatred are close cousins, you don't have to be attached to anything, equally you don't have to

10:30despise anything, just know what that thing really is and then there is the right state of living,

10:40you can even call it love, don't go home and start quarreling with your parents, ma and papa are

10:53false, they are people, no object is false, an object is just an object, know them for what

11:05they really are and then you will be unable to hate or despise, just as you will be unable to

11:14be attached, attachment will drop and so will aversion.

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