Thirsty for Respect? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Even a criminal can attain liberation, but not someone who wants to be respected by the society.

00:07I repeat, freedom and truth are not for those who care about their reputation.

00:15Freedom is an explosion.

00:17Spirituality is not for people who want to have composed faces.

00:21It tears you apart.

00:22It makes you look like an idiot.

00:24It makes you feel as if you are absolutely naked in front of everybody.

00:28Liberation doesn't come without an internal earthquake.

00:33Those who want to live balanced and respectable lives, liberation is not for them.

00:38One has to experience the heat, the fire, the dust, the insults, the rejections.

00:44Whatever exists within that is vulnerable to be destroyed, one has to go through the pain of letting it be destroyed.

00:52As long as you carry vulnerable stuff within you, you will be afraid.

00:56Anybody can attack you.