Full Video: What makes you do this? || An Interview with Acharya Prashant (2019)
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00:00Most of the times, what people call as their responsibility is something that has been
00:05just taught to them.
00:06If you take them aside and ask them, how do you know that you are responsible for such
00:10a thing?
00:11They'll have no answer.
00:12I must be successful.
00:13It's my responsibility towards myself.
00:14I must have a great career.
00:15It's my responsibility towards myself.
00:17I must have a house.
00:18I must be able to bring up my kids in that way.
00:21How do you know that all this is your responsibility?
00:23I repeat, how do you know that you must do it?
00:26Had our responsibilities been genuine, then fulfilling those responsibilities would have
00:31been a source of great joy to us.
00:33The very fact that our responsibilities are a burden to us proves that our responsibilities
00:38are false.
00:39Real responsibility is real delight.
00:42Responsibility can arise only from self-knowledge, you see.
00:45If I know who I am, then I will know what I must do.
00:47And that which I must do is called my responsibility.
00:50So I cannot be responsible unless I have self-knowledge.
00:53But people act very, very responsible without having an iota of self-knowledge.
00:57How is that happening?