Why do people drink? || Acharya Prashant

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

Transcript

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

00:03And if people were indeed happy, why would they drink?

00:06They drink so that they can forget their miserable state.

00:09Who is being pleased in all this? Please tell me.

00:12All these things that we do to get pleased

00:15are just a confirmation of our internal state of wails and tears.

00:22To be spiritual is to go hunting madly, wildly for real pleasure

00:30and to differentiate the real thing from the fake one.

00:35A very different name is given, Anand.

00:38And that's not dependent on an intoxicant.

00:41That's not dependent on when Amazon would put up its next discount fest.

00:46That's not dependent on how quickly you can dupe your girlfriend

00:51into going to bed with you.

00:53That's not dependent on how soon your neighbor loses his job

00:57so that you can be happy.