Preparing for Exam? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How to know that one is not the body? || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2019)

Transcript

00:00You have an exam tomorrow morning, and right now the body wants to sleep.

00:03The body has no empathy at all for your objectives.

00:08You very well know that you have an urgent task at hand,

00:11but the body is yelling for food.

00:14You very well know that the fellow in front of you is a teacher,

00:17but the body cannot stop looking at her as a sex object.

00:21And you're telling the body,

00:22she's not a sex object, she's my teacher.

00:25Body says no, she's a great figure.

00:27The body has no respect for who you are.

00:31That's why I keep saying that the first tragedy is birth itself.