Full Video: When you feel unworthy || Acharya Prashant, with DU (2022)
Link: https://youtu.be/L2w22V_QAas
Video Information: with DU, 20.03.2022, Greater Noida, India
Context:
What is aloneness?
What is loneliness?
How to be happy without depending on others?
How to understand the fear and how to get rid of it?
How to face challenges in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Link: https://youtu.be/L2w22V_QAas
Video Information: with DU, 20.03.2022, Greater Noida, India
Context:
What is aloneness?
What is loneliness?
How to be happy without depending on others?
How to understand the fear and how to get rid of it?
How to face challenges in life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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00:00Life and death depend on this discourse. That's what makes the Gita special. That's what is happening on the battlefield. Beautiful, breathtaking, real.
00:15The way the question, the topic had started, I could not control myself. Last few days, I'm going through certain things.
00:38I know that I've been living my life completely in the four walls of the house.
00:46And I did not realize for a very long time the impact that was causing to me.
00:54It's only after seeing your videos and all and reflecting on my life, the way I'm living and seeing the consequences of it.
01:05I'm able to see how badly my life is right now. And I just feel that I have actually left most of the household tasks.
01:15And I am trying to create more time for me to get into new things. But I'm not able to do it. I want to learn so many things and I'm not able to do it.
01:32I just see myself more of a failure.
01:42Sandhya ji.
01:44That's where I am actually, I am trying many things that are coming in my way to explore. Exploration is there, but I'm not
02:00able to go deeper into anything. I just feel I've wasted a lot of time on my payroll to improve myself.
02:08Even these tiers are an improvement.
02:12Even these tiers are an improvement.
02:15See you should not underestimate your odds.
02:18My doing is very little, that's what I can see.
02:24I understand.
02:25When you say doing, what you mean is tangible progress, right?
02:31You are talking of the ground that you are covering against your challenges.
02:37Right?
02:40But why do you underestimate the challenge you are facing?
02:44You know what you are up against?
02:47You are up against centuries of history.
02:54And you are up against millions of years of evolution of the human body, specifically
03:01the female body.
03:04That's what you are challenging.
03:10Forget about progress.
03:14I say even stalemate is victory.
03:19Even if you continue to lose, you are still victorious provided you have not quit.
03:36The mammoth enemy you are facing.
03:42How did you imagine that you will get quick success?
03:49But when you consider the immensity of the beast you are challenging, then you feel proud of
04:03even your little successes against that beast.
04:08That beast is huge, very huge Santayaji.
04:14Had it not been so huge, how would it have devoured the entire population of this planet?
04:29If you are doing something that's so rare, what you are attempting is unique.
04:39One in a thousand, no.
04:42One in a million even attempts it.
04:47So have that self-esteem and do not look for quick gains.
04:57They won't come your way.
05:00Feel proud that you are struggling.
05:07There is dignity in the right struggle.
05:12Are you getting it?
05:19And that's what we regularly talk of as Nishkam Karma.
05:27The dignity in the right struggle with great disdain towards results.
05:46Sometimes indifference does not suffice.
05:49You need to be disdainful of the results.
05:51I will tell you why.
05:54Because the results will be almost always against you.
06:03The result will be making ugly faces at you.
06:12The results will be trying to break your faith.
06:18Then mere indifference will not suffice.
06:21You need to be contemptuous towards the results.
06:25To hell with the results.
06:27To hell with all my failures.
06:30It is sufficient that I still exist as I must.
06:37It is sufficient that I am not quitting.
06:42Come on, I am ready for the next failure.
06:44Come on.
06:49Come on.
06:53Learn the dignity in defeat.
06:59The world sells you cheap battles.
07:01Therefore, the world glorifies winners.
07:08In the right battle, winning is a utopian luxury.
07:20Just standing firm is enough.
07:27Right?
07:28So don't measure your success or failure on worldly yardsticks.
07:39If you use the benchmarks of the world, they will say only the big successes are worth anything.
07:47And those who are not succeeding are fools.
07:53Right?
07:55Remember your odds.
07:58Remember that you are unique.
08:00Remember that you are among the privileged few who respond to the call of truth.
08:12Remember that the speeds of someone running down a slope and someone climbing the Mount Everest
08:25cannot be compared.
08:29The world venerates speedy achievers.
08:35And in the world, it is possible to gather a lot of speed.
08:38Why?
08:39Because the world is anyway run down a slippery slope.
08:44So it is very easy to gather speed.
08:48And there you have all these speedy achievers out running each other.
08:56What you are doing is a climb up the Everest.
09:04Your progress will be slow.
09:09And your victory does not lie merely in hitting the peak.
09:16Your victory lies in the attempt itself.
09:22Are you getting it?
09:25The very fact that you have attempted and that you continue to attempt is enough.
09:31Nothing more is needed.
09:34Just be honest and loving in your attempts.
09:39Give it everything that you have and forget the results.
09:43We said, be disdainful of the results.
09:49Even if there is a success, do not value it too much.
09:55If you value your occasional success too much, you will be punished to value the lots of failures
10:09that will inevitably come your way.
10:15So occasionally, when you succeed, take it in your stride.
10:22Right?
10:23Success?
10:24Failure?
10:25I don't know.
10:28I am doing.
10:29I am trying.
10:30I exist.
10:31I truthfully exist.
10:32My existence is enough.
10:34When somebody tells you, you won't succeed, let that bring a smile to you.
10:42Because what he is telling is the fact.
10:47What success are we talking of?
10:50There can only be a thorough and lively battle.
10:56An enthralling battle.
11:00That's what is worth it.
11:03Victory?
11:04It's not really given to a mortal.
11:14It's not about victory or something like that in Acharya Ji.
11:18I am just going blank most of the time.
11:21I just feel like I don't want to do.
11:25And sometimes I just feel my son is better than me.
11:30That's what, see, better.
11:33You are comparing yourself to the world.
11:39You are climbing up the Everest.
11:47Right?
11:48With the speedometer of a Mercedes.
11:55And when you do not see the needle making any movement, you feel discouraged.
12:07You are using the wrong standards.
12:13Yes, of course your son is better than you because right now all he has is his biological
12:21agenda to pursue and he will do far better than you on that turf.
12:34In fact, a one-year-old will outperform you in all ways.
12:42Because think of the standards that a one-year-old has to match.
12:49The one-year-old cannot fail because the standards are so low and so obvious.
12:58Even an animal cannot fail.
13:01Can a dog fail to wag its tail?
13:06See, success, applaud and feel miserable.
13:12The dog succeeded and Sandhya failed.
13:18The dog wagged its tail and Sandhya couldn't wag her tail.
13:25The thing is that you do not realize that you don't have a tail.
13:30Your standards are different.
13:35You will never be able to beat the dogs when it comes to wagging the tail.
13:47That's what this world is all about.
13:49All the dogs are busy, competing.
14:05And here you are.
14:11This consulate.
14:12Oh my god.
14:15Look at that one.
14:18Wagging frequency of 200 hertz.
14:28Just as you said, you know, even my son is better than me.
14:30Tomorrow you will say even my dog is better than me.
14:32Somehow I don't know why I am able to see myself only totally unworthy.
14:39Obviously you are totally unworthy.
14:42When an elephant will try to fly, it will feel very unworthy.
14:47You are doing something that is in a different dimension compared to the normal worldly beings.
15:01Therefore the standards of your success have to be very different.
15:07You cannot look at the normal people, compare yourself and feel dejected.
15:14This is Maya.
15:17And if you continue to feel dejected very frequently, a point will come when you will just break.
15:25You will say, I surrender.
15:36You have a thick skin.
15:44In the right petal, you cannot be a very sensitive one.
15:54You need to have the skin of a rhinoceros and a horn to boot if possible.
16:10Somebody troubles you too much, just be a bit nosy and give it in to him.
16:21I get defeated 50 times a day, Sandhya Ji.
16:28Do I let that impact my self worth?
16:36What do you look at me as some kind of superman or champion or what?
16:57I am a serial loser.
17:04The sequence of my defeats is endless.
17:12And still I manage to come and speak to you about wars and fights.
17:27I am saying this because it's possible that you are comparing yourself even to me and thinking, you know,
17:34he sits there and he talks of all the right things and he is continuously succeeding and he is a big champion.
17:40And only I am such an abject failure.
17:43No, you are not.
17:45If you want company in your defeats, let's make a losers club.
17:55Appoint me the president.
17:59I will not settle for anything less than that.
18:04That's my ego, you know.
18:07Even in the losers club, I must be the president.
18:18Feeling better?
18:19Now go get defeated once more.
18:25過 Curtain in here.
18:26Try to play outside.
18:27See you later.
18:28Take tranquillo.
18:29Hopefully.
18:30You don't care.
18:32Go.
18:33Yaw.
18:34Bye.
18:35Bye.
18:36Bye.
18:37Bye.
18:39Bye.
18:41Bye.