Break the Flow || Acharya Prashant

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Transcript

00:00How we should hold ourselves so that we don't get distracted from doing what is right instead

00:06of just going with the flow.

00:08The pressure is not from the flow.

00:10The pressure is from our very old basic physical tendencies.

00:17Even the little kid is greedy.

00:20You may have fat offers here that make you shiver in your legs.

00:27We are born with the tendency to value our physicality much more than goodness.

00:36Money is something that appeals to our physicality.

00:41It is there in the DNA of every animal to value physicality a lot.

00:45However, homo sapiens are unique in a sense.

00:49We are animalistic, but we are not only animalistic.

00:54We are animals, but there is something in us that transcends animals.

00:58We have consciousness that aspires for heights.

01:03It has a vague restlessness.

01:06It understands that merely satisfying the body cannot be the purpose of life.

01:11There has to be something higher.