Behind the Facebook smiles || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Exactly who is happy here? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2021) ~~~~~~~~~~

Transcript

00:00What do you think those Facebook faces are real?

00:03Why do you think people have to display their teeth so much?

00:06If one is really happy, it's an internal confirmation.

00:09You don't have to seek validity from everybody.

00:12Go to a weekend party and show me who is happy.

00:15And if people were indeed happy, why would they drink?

00:17They drink so that they can forget their miserable state.

00:21Who is being pleased in all this, please tell me.

00:24Nobody is happy here, please.

00:26Just scratch the surface and you will find.

00:29Stand at a crossing and watch.

00:31People are rushing to their offices. It's 9 am.

00:34Just look at their faces.

00:36Are they really in pleasure? Where is pleasure?

00:38Spirituality wants you to have true pleasure.

00:42To be spiritual is to go hunting madly, wildly for real pleasure.

00:48Unconditional, continuous, uncaused pleasure.

00:52That's joy.