The Secret Behind Dissatisfaction || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: We are all just atoms. Then why do we fight so much? || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)

Transcript

00:00Can pure material ever love?

00:02Can material cry?

00:04Can material deeply long for something?

00:06It's alright.

00:08The body is material.

00:10But then there is something within that is not material.

00:12It is not material.

00:14But it is heavily discontented.

00:16It is unfulfilled.

00:18And it wants fulfillment.

00:20And it does not know how to get there.

00:22So in its lack of knowledge.

00:24What does it do?

00:26It tries all kinds of material possible.

00:28Including narcotics.

00:30Drugs.

00:32Because they too are just objects, substances.

00:34So you try even that.

00:36Maybe this will satisfy me.

00:38Maybe that will satisfy me.

00:40Money might satisfy me.

00:42Entertainment. Excitement.

00:44Drugs. Knowledge. Power.

00:46Sex. Sports. Whatever.

00:48Man has tried everything.

00:50Tourism. Wanderlust.

00:52It is extremely important to study that.

00:54That which you really are.

00:56A thirsty consciousness.