y = x + sin(x) || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 26.08.2019, Advait BodhSthal, Greater Noida, India   Context:  How to understand duality? How to go beyond your limits? Is it possible to go beyond your limits? Are we a flux? How to understand our tendencies? Why do we get stuck within our patterns?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #acharyaprashant #vedanta  #potential

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00:00In a recent session, one had heard from you that the binary of going up and down in life

00:20will continue.

00:21It would never happen that you will have either only highs or only lows.

00:26So somebody had asked that the person was experiencing these highs and lows very frequently.

00:35So I could relate to this question and I was in a way anticipating a response.

00:41But what you said was very radical for me.

00:43You had said that in this movement, such a movement will exist.

00:49It would not cease.

00:50What you have to ensure is that this movement is upward and not downward.

00:56So your lows have to be higher lows and you're talking about the spiritual journey.

01:03In general, in an everyday living from day to night, my response would only be in the

01:08context of spiritual movement.

01:10Yes, yes, yes, of course.

01:14So if one can hear a little more about it, it will be helpful.

01:18Like you had said that this image has stuck in my mind, you moving your hand and saying

01:23not this, but this.

01:27So if one can hear about it a little more, it will be.

01:31This is the superimposition of two curves.

01:38This is the curve y is equal to sine x.

01:43This is a curve y is equal to sine x.

01:46It really never attains any height.

01:52It moves centered on the y-axis.

01:57The highs and the lows, both are predetermined and dualistic in a sense.

02:03You know of the sine curve, right?

02:08You know of the sine curve, right?

02:15So y is equal to sine x.

02:22Now, add to this the curve y is equal to x.

02:26How does the curve y is equal to x look like?

02:30It is a straight line from the origin and passing through the origin at 45 degrees to

02:39both the x and y-axis.

02:55These two when added give the curve that you are talking of.

03:03What does the addition of these two curves mean?

03:06Addition is both Prakriti and something else.

03:09Prakriti is y is equal to sine x.

03:12You are confined within duality.

03:14Ups and downs, ups and downs, leading to nothing.

03:18The up will not remain up forever.

03:20The down will not remain down forever, crests and troughs, crests and troughs.

03:25That is Prakriti.

03:29In a state of endless movement, day and night, summer and winter, dry and wet, here and there,

03:46yesterday and tomorrow, that is y is equal to sine x.

03:51Man is usually just Prakriti.

03:55So his life too remains confined within the limits of that curve.

04:01A lot seems to be happening.

04:03Nothing really happens.

04:04The curve of life seems to be going up, going up, going up and then it comes down.

04:11Goes down, goes down and then there is a great apprehension that it will go down into some

04:16kind of an endless pit and then suddenly there is a revival and there is celebration.

04:24The curve has taken some inflection.

04:27So instead of going forever down, what does the curve do?

04:31Celebration, celebration, the economy has revived and now it goes up and then what happens?

04:38Now as it is going up and your hopes are soaring, suddenly tragedy strikes and the curve takes

04:46again a downward turn and you remain interested.

04:50It's also gripping.

04:52You are never allowed to lose interest because always something is happening, something is

04:56changing.

04:57Either hope beckons you or tragedy threatens you.

05:04But all in all, what is happening, nothing.

05:10You are not allowed to rise beyond a point, worse still, you are not even allowed to fall

05:19beyond a point.

05:26Life just keeps moving, moving, moving like this, like this, like this.

05:29Do you see this?

05:32Now this will keep happening because you are identified with the body.

05:37Even to ask this question there has to be a body.

05:41But life is life only if there is another curve as well that I am calling as Y is equal

05:47to X.

05:48A curve that takes you upwards, it's a very separate thing.

05:56It is the curve of consciousness that is not satisfied with merely being Prakriti, merely

06:01eating, farting, excreting, sweating, reproducing, no.

06:09What is there in it?

06:11All the time you are inhaling, exhaling, blinking your eyes, moving your hands and limbs, combing

06:17your hair, brushing your teeth.

06:22Is that what you are living for?

06:25And then sometimes you have diarrhea.

06:28That's what life is, right?

06:30Anybody who has never had diarrhea?

06:33Anybody who has never had measles or chicken pox?

06:36That's life.

06:37That's life as a body.

06:39Is there anything more to life as a body?

06:45Anything more?

06:46Yeah, maybe.

06:47A running nose.

06:51And if you don't have all the vaccinations done, then the bacteria and viruses will tell

06:58you what it means to be a body.

07:01Every part of your body would be infested by some pathogen.

07:08That is y is equal to sine x.

07:09Oh, I am healthy, healthy, healthy.

07:16Disease strikes.

07:17But then most diseases are self-limiting.

07:20So even as your condition is deteriorating, after a point, you find that the fever is

07:26ebbing off.

07:27Doesn't that happen with most fevers?

07:29Let's say malaria.

07:30There is a time duration.

07:33Health keeps falling, falling, falling, fever keeps rising, rising, rising.

07:36And then one day you find that the fever is gone.

07:40So you are not even allowed to just keep falling indefinitely.

07:48That's life as a body.

07:53Things come and go.

07:54Nothing really happens.

07:57And then there is the curve of consciousness.

08:01The curve of consciousness.

08:07It is not satisfied lying flat in the x dimension.

08:17It wants to rise up.

08:18It wants to have a y movement.

08:28But it is helpless and constrained because our consciousness cannot operate free of the

08:36body.

08:37Ours is a body-dependent consciousness.

08:40Even our consciousness depends on the brain.

08:44Does it not?

08:45Hit the brain hard and where is consciousness?

08:47It is such a debilitating thing with being human.

08:52Even consciousness depends on the body.

08:56So the body cannot just be kept away or thrown away.

09:01So the two must go together.

09:03Hence your life curve must be y is equal to sine x plus x.

09:09Then the curve would be, ups and downs would be there.

09:14But those ups would keep getting progressively higher.

09:20And even the lows would keep getting progressively higher.

09:24So the body will keep doing its own thing.

09:26But you will find that all in all you are rising.

09:29You are not merely y is equal to sine x.

09:31You are now y is equal to sine x plus x.

09:33Hell, make it x square.

09:36Y is equal to sine x plus x square.

09:39And if you can make it y is equal to sine x plus x raised to the power n.

09:42Where n tends to infinity.

09:45You are done right now, irrespective of the body.

09:49Depends on your intent, the strength of your desperation and determination.

10:09Never think that the bodily curve will let you free.

10:14The bodily curve will remain.

10:19You just have to superimpose another curve on that.

10:23Let the body do its thing.

10:25I will do my thing.

10:27I cannot stop the body.

10:28But I won't let the body stop me either.

10:33If you won't listen to me, am I going to listen to you?

11:03The curve of body will be there.

11:17That is the curve of Prakriti.

11:19And the curve of consciousness is also there.

11:25Just ensure that the curve of consciousness is steep enough to carry and rather override

11:38the body.

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