"Be Your Own Light!" - A Myth! || Acharya Prashant - video Dailymotion

Full Video: Whom to listen to, and whom to avoid? || Acharya Prashant (2021)

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00:00Kindly get rid of the notion that any of us is self-sufficient and does not need

00:06external guidance. I know it's a

00:09fad currently, the in thing to say, be your own light, don't depend on anyone.

00:15We require

00:17guidance. Now, that comes with associated risks. The risk is that if you seek guidance at the wrong place,

00:25there's the worst thing that can happen to you.

00:27But just because there is the danger of something bad happening to you, if you get false

00:34guidance, you cannot avoid or stop taking guidance altogether.

00:39That would be an equally disastrous thing. If you are someone who has been following somebody

00:44outside of you, some other person, ask yourself with great discipline, without any attachment, without any emotion,

00:51what am I getting there? What am I learning there? Is my life changing? Am I more fearless now?

00:56These are the questions to be asked.