How to have clarity in life? || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2022)

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00:00I am Shashank Kashyap from Atmaram Sanatan Dharam College, University of Delhi.

00:09And my question is, I have like a vision about I'm more inclined towards research and entrepreneurship

00:15like stuff.

00:16But whenever I discuss with people, they usually tell me that you first seek for a job and

00:23get the job, get some money and after that you can go for these things because these

00:27are the things that involve risk.

00:29So in your video, I have seen that you are telling that one needs clarity in life.

00:36So living in between these people who have a hard mentality following what rest of the

00:42people are doing.

00:43So in between these people, how to get that clarity in life?

00:50See, clarity in the inner sense is attained by observing fog and haze.

01:04All that obfuscates your clarity is to be known.

01:10This is the process of attaining clarity.

01:14So if these people are around you, first of all see they are around you, they are because

01:17they are within you, otherwise they couldn't have been around you.

01:25People who discourage you or people who want you to be risk averse, people who want you

01:31to avoid obstacles and go for a pleasure filled and easy comfortable life, if they surround

01:40you from outside, it is because they occupy you from within.

01:46And they have to be observed because observing them is in some way self-observation.

01:53When you observe these people outside of you, you are observing your face in their faces.

01:59Listen to their arguments, their arguments are your own arguments against yourself.

02:05Their arguments couldn't have affected you had they not resonated with something inside

02:11of you.

02:14So listen to what they are saying, see where they are coming from, see how their lives

02:17are and then ask yourself, is that where I want to spend my life?

02:23Is that how I want to live?

02:26Because their arguments aren't in a vacuum, everything is connected to everything else.

02:32The way for example their personal life is, is very much related to how their professional

02:37choices are, the way their eyes look, the way their faces look, the kind of political

02:45opinions that they hold, they are all integrated and they are coming from the same center.

02:53You want to live that way, it's a choice you have to make and remember it's a very important

03:00choice because something within you definitely wants to live that way.

03:06Something within you definitely wants to emulate them.

03:10You must know what you are going to get into if you emulate.

03:15They are all following a pattern, they are all part of a certain crowd.

03:19You must know where that pattern is coming from.

03:23You must know whose desires they are fulfilling.

03:27You must ask what is the purpose of such a life and you must ask whether life must have

03:33a purpose at all.

03:35Then you must ask what does it feel like to live without a purpose.

03:44And sir, how to counter their arguments?

03:48Their arguments are not their arguments.

03:50Had their arguments just been their own, you won't have needed to counter them.

03:55What is the need to counter their arguments, first of all, please tell me.

03:59It seems you want to borrow a phrase or argument from me so that you can use it as ammunition

04:06against them.

04:07But first of all, why is there a need to counter them at all?

04:10Let them say what they want to say.

04:14So because sometimes I feel that if I'm surrounded by such kind of people, then somewhere my

04:20mentality is getting contaminated by their thoughts.

04:22But why are you surrounded by such people?

04:27Not everyone is like that.

04:34Everyone around you is probably like that.

04:37Now that's the question you need to answer.

04:39Why have you in particular surrounded yourself with such people?

04:45That's what I'm saying, Shashank, something within you is very comfortable with what they

04:52are saying.

04:54Something within you resonates and rhymes with their opinions.

04:59They are representing your own face to you.

05:04That's why they have such power over you.

05:07Else you would have just dismissed them with indifference.

05:13Right now you find it difficult to be indifferent to their opinions.

05:19Because they're reaching out to their ally within you.

05:27Something within you is allying with them very intimately and that's a bigger problem.

05:36People outside of you can change.

05:39Maybe you go some other place and you will find a different set of people, at least physically.

05:45But how will you get rid of that same person within you?

05:51And if that same person within you remains the way it is, it will again find and attract

05:57its own bodies, its own type.

06:02And you'll say, oh, but you know, such people are everywhere.

06:04They're not everywhere.

06:07They come to places where they have a conducive environment.

06:15They speak to people who lend their ears to them.

06:18Why are you so open to them?

06:26Are flies found at all places?

06:28Tell me.

06:29Where are they found?

06:32Where there is a dirt.

06:34Exactly.

06:35Name the dirt.

06:36Like dung or like a garbage or gutter.

06:43Right.

06:45Clean that up.

06:46So, sir, how to counter that like inner part of that consciousness and lift up the consciousness

06:52so that those people can go away?

06:56Those who wanted to help you made themselves available in various ways so that you may

07:03have their company, so that you are not forced to dwell in bad company, so that freedom means

07:13more to you than security.

07:17Why not be with them?

07:19They left their books behind.

07:21Why else did they write books?

07:24They were not suckers for popularity or respect.

07:34They had gone far beyond that.

07:38They left their words behind so that you may find good company in them.

07:48And this is the age of technology.

07:49Not only books, you also have various other forms and media.

07:55You have audios, you have videos, you have many other things.

08:02So be with them.

08:04As you find your internal world changing, you will find your need to associate with

08:13the cowardly kind of people is reducing.

08:21Only your reverence for the right kind of people will increase.

08:27These two go in tandem.

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