Action over Fear || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: When things go bad, I start panicking || Acharya Prashant, at Mithibai College, Mumbai (2022)

Transcript

00:00A western thinker said action is the antidote to despair.

00:03And the topmost Indian philosophy from the Bhagavad Gita says that the Yukta person,

00:10the undivided person is the one for whom future has ended.

00:14In what sense has the future ended?

00:16The fellow is so immersed in what he is doing that he has stopped caring for the results

00:22in future.

00:23I stop keeping time when I speak.

00:25I just stop keeping time.

00:26We are brave people, we are capable people.

00:29Let tomorrow decide for itself.

00:30And the past, it has already taken care of itself.

00:33The only place where action is possible is right now.

00:37So let's act and let's act in love.

00:39Let's act in honesty.

00:41Not in helplessness, not in inner deception, self-deception, courageously.

00:47That's the way to not to worry, not to panic, not to care, to keep all concerns aside.