Doing the Right Thing || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Karma and Reincarnation || Acharya Prashant, at Arth : A Culture Fest (2022)

Transcript

00:00Doing the right thing is a product of internal rightness.

00:04When you are internally right, it's then that you do the right thing and then the right thing is its own reward.

00:12Then you are not really, you know, staring at the future with your arms stretched almost like a beggar,

00:21asking for a reward and feeling disappointed, well, I did the right thing,

00:24but life did not reward me the way it does other people.

00:29Equally, if you are doing something that's against your nature and your nature is beauty,

00:35your nature is joy, your nature is freedom, if you are doing something against this,

00:39then that is a wrong action and the punishment lies in the very doing.

00:44When you are doing this, at that moment, you are not being yourself and that's a great suffocation.

00:51That's a great humiliation to oneself.

00:54So please, all the ones who want to lead an upright life, a life of courage, of power, of freedom,

01:03never be afraid or doubtful that if you live rightly, the consequences might not be favorable.

01:10One great characteristic of the right life is that one becomes free of the botheration,

01:19the worry related to consequences and that's a great unburdening, is it not?