Let Suffering Empower You || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Making Sense of Suffering and Finding Inner Strength || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Most people let their suffering de-energize them, stop them, engage them, limit them.

00:06And then there are others who work even more, who get resolved even more, exactly because they suffer.

00:13They let their suffering be their fuel.

00:16I want to see whether I can survive you.

00:18And if I can survive you, I'm going past you.

00:21And if I remain scared of you, then you remain happily sitting within me.

00:26I don't want that to happen.

00:27That's what courage is all about.

00:29The willingness to not only tolerate suffering, but actually to inflict suffering upon oneself.

00:37Not needlessly, obviously.

00:38Not senselessly, obviously.

00:40Knowing fully well that suffering has the power to purge.