Concentration can be easy   Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022) - video Dailymotion

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: 18.07.2022,  BITS Pilani, Goa   Context: ~ What is concentration? ~ How to concentrate? ~ How to be free? ~ Why is our attention spam decreasing day by day? ~ Why is our youth not focused and distracted?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~  #acharyaprashant #concentration #distraction

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00:00Pranam Acharya ji. Sir, my question is the one which is constantly going on in our mind.

00:17We students of age 18 to 22, we have certain goals fixed in our life. We have made by themselves

00:24or by our parents and we need to achieve them. We think like this. But sir, then there is

00:31emotional breakdown, there is constant chaos in our mind, in particularly I am talking

00:36about myself. There are so much things that are going inside mind that we can't really

00:42focus on a single task at a particular time. Sir, how to overcome that overthinking? And

00:50I know that we have to do, I have to do certain things, but that the perception of time fades

00:56away. There is so much of overthinking all the time, sir.

00:59You fail at accomplishing a particular task in a given time. Which particular task? Which

01:07particular task? Remember, the one sitting within is very stubborn, that one is thirsty

01:20and desirous and there is one deep desire. If you involve yourself in fulfilling other

01:29desires or doing other things, attempting other tasks, the one within will not cooperate.

01:35You will fail and that's when people say, oh, I can't concentrate, I can't concentrate.

01:39I ask them, on what? First of all, are you concentrating on the right thing?

01:45Are you concentrating on the right thing? Imagine a kid you have with you, little kid.

01:53The kid is thirsty, the kid is thirsty and you take the kid to a toy shop and you think

02:04that the toy is quite important, at least for the kid. Will the kid be able to concentrate?

02:14Even in a toy shop, will the kid be able to concentrate? No concentration.

02:19The kid is thirsty, you are not taking him to a stationary shop.

02:24You are saying, you will get the best kind of pencil and eraser and tell me the fanciest

02:29notebook I'll give to you and it's important to buy these things because the teacher has

02:34asked for them.

02:35Will the kid be able to concentrate?

02:39The kid is thirsty and you are so ignorant, you do not realize the one fundamental thing

02:47you first of all need to give to the kid.

02:51It's neither toys nor sweets, nor stationary, not clothes, not entertainment, nothing.

03:00The kid is sitting inside you, the kid is thirsty, do you realize it's thirst?

03:08It is that thirst that expresses itself in lack of concentration.

03:18See what you really want and then there will be no need to practice concentration, otherwise

03:24concentration will remain a lifelong problem.

03:29The ones who are into real things never need to concentrate.

03:35Concentration just comes to them, running, a begging.

03:40The ones who are into unreal things keep trying to concentrate and still fail.

03:46The mind is distracted and running in 40 other directions.

03:53You need to value the right desire, you need to put your time where your real value is.

04:05On one hand you think, for example, that studies are just a way to secure placements.

04:15Then what is it that you are putting value on?

04:17Placements.

04:19Placements.

04:20Now how will you concentrate on studies?

04:23Tell me.

04:25You have already taught yourself to value money, how will you value academics now?

04:35Your mind will go where your values are and what do you want to do with money?

04:45You want to entertain yourself, right?

04:48I'll roam the world, I'll visit all kinds of scenic places and next to you is your mobile phone.

04:58And scenes from those places are being flashed on the mobile screen.

05:03Now would you ever want to concentrate on your studies?

05:10If the ultimate value lies in entertainment and that's what you are studying for, so that

05:16you may get placed and then earn money and then entertain yourself.

05:22Then the mind says if entertainment is the final and highest value, why not have entertainment

05:28right now?

05:30So close the book and jump into entertainment and that's what we experience all the time.

05:37Do we even know what to desire?

05:39That's the question, that's the question and that's called the crisis of values.

05:44We do not really know what is desirable.

05:47We do not know what to put value on.

05:51You put value on one thing and you try to give your time to something else, obviously

05:58you'll be bored, distracted, energy-less.

06:06In business parlance they say put your money where your mouth is, right?

06:14Invest where you believe in, do what you profess.

06:25Tell me honestly, if today you are told that you can have great placements even without

06:31studying and you can have your degree with 9.5 CGPA without studying, honestly please

06:44tell me who would not agree, who would not agree and that's the reason why in the hinterlands

06:53such shops actually do exist.

06:57You enroll, you pay money and you then don't need to be in the campus, they'll courier

07:03you your degree, you don't even need to come for the convocation, they are happy.

07:14That's also now you would understand the thing behind cheating and examinations because the

07:21whole process, the value that you put on is not learning.

07:27The process is not about learning, the process is about securing marks.

07:31So if marks can be secured by copying rather than learning, pretty fine, no?

07:44Concentration is a problem because we live loveless lives.

07:49When you love something, I'm asking you, do you face concentration issues?

08:00Whatever you value, you find yourself concentrated there and if you cannot concentrate at the

08:07right places, then you have to question your values.

08:12Ever faced a problem of concentration sitting in the cinema hall?

08:17Who has faced such a problem?

08:20Nobody, nobody comes and says, but sir, you know, I cannot concentrate on this song and

08:27dance sequence, then you are, you have a laser-like focus, you'll burn the screen with your sight.

08:46Is concentration a problem then?

08:49Having the right desire is the problem.

08:52Having the right values is the problem.

08:55Concentration is not a problem.

09:00I keep a huge bundle of currency notes here, who will face problems in concentrating?

09:10Not on me, on that.

09:13Immediately you will concentrate.

09:20I put up a collage of very exciting pics for youngsters over here, who will not concentrate?

09:28Who will not concentrate?

09:31Immediately you will concentrate.

09:32You will concentrate so much, you will forget everything else and then you say you have

09:36concentration problems, no?

09:41The crisis is of values.

09:44We do not know what is important, when we do not know what is important, rather we have

09:54taken all kinds of nonsensical things as important.

10:01Things that have zero value, we have imbibed them as valuable.

10:09Concentration your values, write down all the things that you take as important and

10:15then objectively with all your brain power, ask yourself, are these things really important?

10:22That's something that you need to do right now in your life.

10:27Once you are 25, you might find it's too late.

10:32There are so many things that you get irretrievably into.

10:36The process is one way, irreversible reaction.

10:43Right now is the opportunity when you should decide what really is important in life and

10:52if you can see that, you won't need to ever concentrate again.

10:56If you don't see that, you will bear the consequences all your life because you will

11:03get into all kinds of wrong stuff and many of those things you will never be able to

11:09extract yourself from.

11:11Once you have gone in, you will remain in, won't be possible to change tracks.

11:24You know what I am talking of, right?

Concentration can be easy Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)

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