Life is simple economics || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How Observing Desire Leads to Freedom from Doership? || Acharya Prashant (2023)

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00:00What's wrong with running after an object? The simple answer is, it's an inefficient investment of my resources.

00:07That's what is wrong. Nothing religious or spiritual or moral about it. Simple economics.

00:12Running after something is a very inefficient investment of my life, energy, time, resources and that's what you see

00:20spirituality is. Life economics. We talk of material economics. In the name of economics, all that we study is

00:27material stuff. Spirituality is life economics. You don't just have stuff in your wallet.

00:32You have stuff in your heartbeat. There is stuff in your wallet that is numbered and finite.

00:38Equally the number of heartbeats that you have are very finite. So spirituality is life economics. What to do with these

00:46limited number of heartbeats that you have. What to put your life into. If you put your life into desire, that's an

00:53inefficient investment. It does not give you what you want from it. The ROI is very bad.