Harms of Being Too Serious! || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00I personally hate someone who takes my problem slightly. I want others to take my problem

00:05seriously and not smile or laugh at them. What does seriousness mean? To look at the situation

00:11in the same deluded way as you do. You have come upon a difficult problem in integral calculus.

00:19You're taking it very seriously and you go to your teacher and he looks at the problem that

00:23you have picked up and get scared just as you are scared. Will that teacher be of any use to you?

00:27You want someone who is not serious about things. You are very serious. But then I appreciate your

00:33predicament because it is serious to me. So it must be serious to you. Else you are demonstrating

00:38to me that I'm an idiot. So the wise man often in his wisdom chooses to pretend. He says obviously

00:43obviously. I see. I see. Oh yes it's a brave matter. I understand. Even if the thing can be solved in

00:50two seconds he chooses to take half an hour for it just to display that the problem was convoluted.

00:56That's compassion.

00:57That's compassion.

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