Fickle Friends, Fake Love || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How to become mentally and emotionally strong? || Acharya Prashant, with NIT Trichy (2024)

Transcript

00:00You have a friend and he starts overflowing with joy.

00:03The moment he finds that you got a package of whatever the package is considered fat

00:07enough.

00:08And he goes bonkers.

00:09You'll say, you know, this is what a great friend is like.

00:13See how he's celebrating my success.

00:15I got a great job and great means lots of money.

00:18I got a great job and see how celebratory he is.

00:21This man is injecting weakness in you.

00:24What he's telling is that I'm celebrating you because you have a job and a job is an

00:28external thing.

00:29And you might not have that job and then you feel small and weak.

00:34Anybody who celebrates you or loves you conditionally is actually celebrating and loving the conditions,

00:41not you.

00:42And conditions as we know are all fickle.

00:44Bubbles there disappear in no time.

00:47And then you will be very, very anxious about protecting those bubbles.

00:51And that's weakness.