How happy is he! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Exactly who is happy here? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2021)

Transcript

00:00Nobody is happy here. Please just scratch the surface and you will find what do you think those Facebook faces are real?

00:08Why do you think people have to display their teeth so much if one is really happy? It's an internal confirmation

00:13You don't have to seek validity from everybody. You don't have to go around tom-tomming your happiness

00:18So, please drop the illusion that people are indeed happy this thing about being indeed happy

00:26Truly happy is called joy. We don't have it and that's why we run after flimsy pleasures

00:32Spirituality, please is not about dropping the real thing

00:35It is about dropping false pleasures so that you can have real joy and false pleasures are the same as suffering

00:43So spirituality is about dropping suffering so that you can have joy all these things that we do to get pleased are just a

00:51confirmation of our

00:53Internal state of veils and tears