New Year’s Resolutions (7 TRUTHS) || Acharya Prashant (2014)

Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant reveals more about New Year's Resolutions.  Full Video Link: https://youtu.be/_wnM0JiwyMQ?si=Ma_GrKYBs5J6eBpS    Full Video: Individuality and choices ~~~~~~~~~  Video Information: Samvaad Session, 13.2.14,  Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India  💯  Wisdom Quote: “But to not to know your own mind and your own life cannot be forgiven.”  What is the right way to make a New Year's Resolution? Don't make the wrong New Year's resolutions.Acharya Prashant shows us the true meaning of New Year's Resolutions.  00:00 New Year’s Resolutions [7 TRUTHS] 00:48 Many resolutions are what OTHERS expect of you 01:23 Think about your life's mission 02:21 Be sure your resolutions are actually your own choice 03:33 Secret to keeping a resolution 04:19 Resolve to be free 05:21 Know yourself to grow yourself  ~~~~~~~~ Context: ~ How to make a new year resolution? ~ What is the meaning of freedom of choice? ~ What are those 5 secrets to keeping a resolution? ~ What are six ways to resolve to be free? ~ How to grow yourself?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~~~~  🎧 Listen to Acharya Prashant on Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/2QmVEAA...  #acharyaprashant #newyearresolution #youth

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00:00You say you want something, and you move towards it, and you are resolute, and then, gone.

00:22Where is the decision, where is the resolution?

00:25Is this happening for the first time?

00:27The new year comes, and then, new year resolutions.

00:30What happens to those resolutions?

00:32What happens to those resolutions?

00:352 to 4 days.

00:37Let's be a little more generous.

00:39Let's say 12 to 14 days.

00:41Gone.

00:50Usually, we say that our choices are an expression of our individuality.

00:55We say that the freedom of choice, the right to choose is a very important part of my freedom.

01:03So, we have taken it for granted that our choices are an expression of our individuality.

01:10That our choices are a result of our environment.

01:13And that is the reason why choices are so radically different.

01:26But in our case, there is nothing that holds.

01:31There is nothing that is beyond time.

01:34Time changes just everything.

01:37Just everything.

01:40You are picking up a very insignificant excerpt from the entire story of your life.

01:45Why is it so?

01:47Why is it so that we have no center that holds and that will never fall apart?

01:53Do we have a center in life?

01:55Do we have something that can never be touched by time?

01:59Do we have something that situations can never change?

02:03Unless you find that, Rupam, you will find that you are just a plaything in the hands of situations.

02:11Whims and fancies of time, the vicissitudes of all that is external, they toy with you.

02:24It's turning out to be quite strange.

02:27We are saying on one hand that my choices are an indication of my freedom.

02:32On the other hand, we are seeing that choices are all coming from the environment.

02:37Then how can there be freedom in choices?

02:39That's why we all like making choices because choices give us the illusion of power.

02:48While making a choice, it appears to us that my life is moving according to my will, right?

02:55That's why we love choices.

03:00The environment has told you when 1st January comes, make a new year resolution.

03:05So you'll make a new year resolution.

03:07The environment has also told you that when 5th of January comes, forget the resolution.

03:11You'll forget the resolution.

03:13So one thing is certain, choices are environment driven.

03:17We do not know about individuality.

03:19But one thing is certain, choices are hardly mine.

03:23And it's a great sense of relief to see that my choices are actually not my choices.

03:37And then there is no question of indecision or distraction.

03:42Because then there are no options left.

03:46Then you start from there and rush straight to water.

03:50Nobody can stop you in between.

03:52Nobody can tempt you with honey or milk.

03:55You want water and you do not want honey.

03:58And if somebody stops you midway, a honey trap, you won't stop.

04:02But to not to be distracted, you require a firm understanding of who you are and hence what is right for you.

04:11If you really know, then there is no way you can be stopped.

04:14Stopped either way.

04:25Individuality is to regain that innocent mind.

04:31Individuality is to be able to clean the mind to such an extent that the crystal shines again.

04:47When you do not act from there, then you are just a slave of influences and environment.

04:53And then you are not an individual.

04:57Conditioning happens all the time.

04:59Influences are there all the time.

05:01Environment is acting upon you all the time.

05:04So you are continuously gathering dust.

05:07It can be cleaned anytime.

05:10And when it will be cleaned, you will find that the crystal is shining as brightly as ever.

05:16Nothing has changed.

05:18Look at the entire quality of your mind.

05:29That is the ground from where all your decisions and all your confusions arise.

05:37When you start knowing, you will see that the need to decide starts reducing.

05:52But we need to decide.

05:56We need to decide because we are confused.

05:58But to not to know your own mind and your own life cannot be forgiven.

06:07That is something for which there can be no pardon.

06:11And I'm talking of these things because this is what fills up a young man's mind.

06:15Life, career, love, marriage, family.

06:23How can you keep moving blindly without seeing, without knowing?

06:35And the more clarity you have with this question,

06:39the less will be the scope for indecision and subsequent distraction.

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