Obesity in Animals || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How to fight our inner conditioning? || Acharya Prashant (2023)

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00:00Animals in jungle never overeat and they don't care for delicious food.

00:05They want food just as life energy.

00:08If a big python or crocodile happens to swallow a big animal,

00:14they will not eat for long weeks or even months.

00:17There is no intention to overeat.

00:19Why does man overeat?

00:21There has to be something specific to man's psyche that is not found in animals.

00:25You need another source of fulfillment.

00:28And if you do not have that source of fulfillment,

00:30you will have no option but to fall back repeatedly upon food.

00:34Nothing else is there.

00:36So the only pleasure that is available is through food.

00:38How can you give up on that pleasure?

00:40We all want pleasure, right?

00:41If pleasure is not coming from anywhere else,

00:43then you will seek it in food.

00:45So food continues to be dominant as long as life is not rich.

00:49As soon as you get whiff of something that has the potential to fulfill you better than food,

00:57you can easily keep food aside.