The right kind of suffering || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Dealing with painful thoughts || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2022)

Transcript

00:00Pain is unavoidable. Pain is the very fact of life.

00:04The question is, what is it that you suffer the pain for?

00:08And believe me, there is nobody who doesn't have to suffer.

00:11I don't have to convince you. You know that very well, right?

00:14Look around yourself. What do you see?

00:16If you look honestly and deeply enough, you will see a lot of suffering.

00:20Suffering is. Suffer for the right cause. That's the best you can do.

00:24The solution to suffering is not a state of no suffering.

00:27The solution to suffering is right suffering.

00:29And to complete the story, I would say, if you suffer rightly,

00:33then slowly your tendency to suffer keeps reducing.

00:38And probably, potentially, one day you can come to a point where you don't suffer.