Rebel Against Body || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How to know that one is not the body? || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2019)

Transcript

00:00The fellow in front of you is a teacher, but the body cannot stop looking at her as a sex object.

00:05When you're telling the body, she's not a sex object, she's my teacher.

00:08Body says, no, it's a great figure.

00:10The body has no respect for who you are.

00:14That's why I keep saying that the first tragedy is birth itself.

00:17You're not born alone.

00:19You're born welded to the body.

00:21The two of you are born together, and the two of you cannot go together.

00:24One of you has to prevail.

00:26Either you will live as the body, or the body will have to surrender to your power.

00:30You will have to display your might to the body.

00:33You will have to conquer the body.

00:35If you cannot conquer the body, the body will conquer you.

00:37So forget all your notions of divine harmony between mind, body, and soul.

00:42It's a war.

00:43And one and only one will win.

00:45Either you or the body.