Full video: Self-esteem dependent on others? || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)
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00:00Fame is one of the most seductive things that the world offers.
00:05Do not be addicted to this seduction.
00:08Similarly, prestige, money, power, you are not born with those things.
00:12They were given to you in the world by the world.
00:16And if the world can give these things to you, the world can also withdraw them.
00:20Today people are liking you, tomorrow they may not.
00:23Today somebody professes closeness to you, tomorrow that person might drift away.
00:28Therefore, Vedanta teaches you to live only in that which is timeless.
00:34That which no moment in time can take away from you.
00:38And the confidence that you get when you are not dependent on anything is unmatchable.
00:44Is that not one of the mantras of today?
00:46Feel confident, act self-assured.
00:49But how can you act self-assured when like a puppet your strings are in 47 hands?