You Read the Gita… But Nothing Changed? || Acharya Prashant (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00My question is, I want to compare Arjun with Dhrast.

00:07So Dhrast, even after listening to Gita via Sanjay, is not able to lose his darkness.

00:16And by not able to losing his darkness, what I mean is he is not able to take the side

00:21of Krishna.

00:22So why is he so compelled to not take the side of Krishna, even after getting this knowledge

00:29of Gita?

00:30Why was he not enlightened, just like Arjun?

00:33Similarly, Acharya Ji, we are getting this knowledge through you.

00:39But I feel that sometimes in life, we are also not able to keep this knowledge with us.

00:45And we still take this in the life that are not in favor of Krishna's knowledge.

00:53So why is this happening?

00:56See, somebody comes and demonstrates a beautiful piece of merchandise to you, right?

01:12Arjun lets you experience that thing a little.

01:24But you won't be able to benefit from whatever he is offering if you are not prepared to pay

01:31the price.

01:35Arjun is being told to slaughter his kit and kin.

01:38That's the immensity of the price Arjun is paying.

01:44And therefore, only Arjun benefits from the Gita.

01:51Just because the Gita is demonstrated to you, you do not become entitled to take it home.

02:03You go to a car showroom.

02:09The fellow displays the best model to you.

02:16Also allows you to have a test ride.

02:21Answers all your queries.

02:26Does that mean you can drive the car home now?

02:32So that's what, the Gita is demonstrated to so many people.

02:37A little bit of test riding also happens.

02:47And it ends there.

02:50Because after that is the time for the check.

02:58Where is the check, sir?

03:01And the check was signed in red.

03:10No ordinary check.

03:12Fight Arjun, fight.

03:14Does not matter who survives and who is slaughtered.

03:22So what you get depends on what you pay for.

03:26Not what you like.

03:27Not what is big.

03:32The world, life itself is a supermarket.

03:36Everything is available.

03:38But you will get what you pay for.

03:45Thank you, Acharya Ji.

03:59That was the question I had today.

04:02Wonderful.

04:03Acharya Ji, first of all, it is an honor asking you this question.

04:08And sitting here in front of you today.

04:10Welcome.

04:11And I have a question related to today's session.

04:15Where you have mentioned that wholeness comes from having a center.

04:21But sometimes I feel that, I mean, we do not know what is the right center basically.

04:30And we feel whole with the superficial things.

04:32Like in the morning, we'll feel that, okay, I'm feeling very motivated.

04:37I'm feeling very good today.

04:38And by the afternoon, it will be over analyzing things in our mind.

04:42And then it just trembles.

04:43And by the end of the day, I end up criticizing myself.

04:47And then thinking that, you know, I'm not going on the right path.

04:51So how do we decide what is the right center and how do we, I mean, it becomes so confusing

04:58sometimes.

05:00You see, I could say the right center is Dharma or Krishna, but that remains largely figurative.

05:10So the more practical approach is one of negation.

05:17If things fall apart, if the center proves incapable of holding the mind together, then you should

05:31know that you are operating from a weak or false center.

05:38The center should be able to provide you integrity for very long, everlasting wholeness.

05:51The center should be so compelling, so beautiful, so indisputable, so inexorable that you just

06:04cannot manage to defy it or overrule it or whatever.

06:19If you'll ask me, what is that center?

06:25Give me a name, a definition, an address or something.

06:28No.

06:29Just keep discarding your loose centers.

06:34Keep progressing, keep moving.

06:40Charayveti.

06:43And that's the only way.

06:53Be good, become better.

06:58There should be an unending journey in learning, in betterment, in dissolution, in reduction, in brilliance.

07:19That's what.

07:20Don't stop.

07:22And don't ask for easy endings and quick conclusions.

07:32Have the appetite, the stamina to run a lifelong marathon.

07:40Don't be lazy.

07:41Wherever you are, that point can never be a final one.

07:55And if you have already reached a final point, what's the point living on?

08:01When your train reaches the destination, what do you do?

08:08What do you do?

08:09Get out of it.

08:10You on board.

08:11You get out of it.

08:12So if you ever say you have reached a destination, I'll say, well, time to.

08:18It's alright being in the train.

08:33Be a journeyman, a journeywoman, continuously.

08:46What's the need to conclude?

08:48What's the need to say the end?

08:53I would be speaking on the Gita, I don't know, sixth time, eighth time, I don't know.

09:04And I really love being better each passing time.

09:11No?

09:22Too demanding.

09:38Too demanding?

09:50If the heart does not get tired pumping blood

09:59to the brain,

10:02why must the mind get tired of travelling?

10:08Why else is blood being pumped to your brain?

10:20Think.

10:24If you are not required to think anymore,

10:29what's the point in having an active brain?

10:32Yeah, that's all.

10:34Thank you Acharya Ji. That's it from me.

10:36Thank you Acharya Ji. That's it from me.

10:44Yeah, that's all.

10:47Thank you Acharya Ji.

10:48That's it from me.

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