Colors Of Truth And Ego || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Holi is a great festival of awakening if understood in the Vedantic way.

00:05Hiranyakashyap, he was a devotee and what did he ask for himself?

00:07He said, I will not die this way, I will not die that way.

00:10So, blind devotion doesn't work.

00:12You can be a great devotee and still be operating from the center of ego and greed.

00:17What you are doing is for just your own sake.

00:20So, even if you happen to obtain something, it will be used in the service of your ego

00:25and that will bring destruction to everybody just as Hiranyakashyap did.

00:29And then emerges somebody from his own family, his own son,

00:32who says even if he is my physical father, I value truth more than my father.

00:36And then Dharmorakshati Rakshata, he valued truth and the truth came to protect him.

00:40In the legend, it's in a very physical way, very dramatic way.

00:44If you are cunning and drunk with power and authority,

00:47some or the other way will emerge to bring you down as happened with Hiranyakashyap.

00:52If you can understand what the story is pointing at, then Holi can be a festival of awakening.

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