Lost Interest in Life? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Rediscover Your Passion: Overcoming Disinterest! || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Madras (2023)

Transcript

00:00My question is, what one should do if he or she has lost interest in life?

00:05That's the most fundamental question of life.

00:08The sad part is that it is not a question at all.

00:11You are making a declaration.

00:13What is life?

00:14Who is the living one?

00:15Why the hell do we exist at all?

00:17This is the central question.

00:20Make an exhaustive list of all the things that you have hoped to bring you satisfaction.

00:26And once you see that none of them can succeed in spite of being given several chances,

00:33then the possibility of something new opens up, no?

00:36First of all, you have to get totally exhausted and disappointed.

00:40Let me say disillusioned.

00:41And then you'll be forced to do something new.

00:44And in that newness, there is life.

00:46There is cheerfulness.

00:48A certain vitality.

00:49A certain freshness of mind.

00:51You have to strike out all the nonsense.

00:53No point trying the same beaten route the fifth time.