Going with the flow || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Beliefs: Reconciling Perception & Reality || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00Pleasure is always something determined by you. No pleasure is absolute. All pleasures get their

00:07value from the pleasure seeker. The same thing that appears pleasurable to one is discarded by

00:14the other. Therefore, pleasure is not something that can carry you away on its own. You accord

00:19value to the pleasure. You can also withdraw value from the pleasure. That which you are valuing

00:25does not intrinsically deserve value. Because you do not know hence you are taking it as valuable

00:32like a man being robbed of his money by somebody who is selling fake gems. You do not know what a

00:39real diamond looks like. As long as that value estimation stands, you will keep going with the

00:45flow. Sometimes I advise people go completely with the flow. Then you will know what value lies in

00:51the place the flow is leading you to. It is the top gutter of the city. That's where the flow will take you.