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युवावस्था बहुत ही नाज़ुक समय होता है। यही समय निर्धारित कर देता है कि जीवन किस दिशा जाएगा।

How did the Buddha look then? Who is the Buddha? Let’s try to understand with the story of Gautama Buddha, The ‘Shakya Muni Buddha’ as we call him. So, who was he? Let’s look at his central characteristics. One, someone who is well versed in the knowledge of his time. Buddha had deep scriptural knowledge. He was born in a Hindu Kshatriya family, he was a prince and ever since his childhood he was quite talented. So, one thing about him is that he was quite well-read. Second thing is, he was deeply interested in knowing the depths of life. He did not want to remain merely at the superficial levels, so he would observe a lot, he would think a lot. https://acharyaprashant.org/en/articles/todays-buddha-1_4d1b6bf

I had to unlearn a lot of things, and I am grateful to all the sources—the books, the people and the experiences that helped me unlearn. And I am grateful to that within me that had the courage to unlearn. A lot of unlearning is needed. I often say you need to learn love. By that what I mean is that you need to unlearn false love. And it’s one mighty task to unlearn false love, transactional love, the transactional love that both biology and society teach you.

Something is very wrong somewhere. The first thing in liberation is: do not be dependent on somebody, at least for your bread, for your basic sustenance. What kind of empowerment is this that happily accepts dependence on somebody else’s money on a date, and also for an entire lifetime? It…

पारस में अरु संत में, बड़ो अन्तरो जान। वो लोहा कंचन करे, ये कर दे आप समान।। ~कबीर साहब

प्रश्नकर्ता: जैसा कि आप कहते हैं, कि जितना जल्दी हो सके अपने को पूरा अर्पण कर दो, या ख़त्म कर दो, पर यदि इसे समझेंगे और करेंगे, तो अपने अपूर्ण स्थिति…

श्रद्धावान् लभते ज्ञानं तत्पर: संयतेन्द्रिय: | ज्ञानं लब्ध्वा परां शान्तिमचिरेणाधिगच्छति || ४, ३९ || जितेन्द्रिय, साधनापरायण और श्रद्धावान मनुष्य ज्ञान को प्राप्त होता है तथा ज्ञान को प्राप्त होकर वह बिना विलम्ब के तत्काल ही भगवत्प्राप्तिरूप शान्ति को प्राप्त हो जाता है। —श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता, अध्याय ४, श्लोक ३९प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी,…

यदा नाहं तदा मोक्षो

यदाहं बन्धनं तदा।

मत्वेति हेलया किंचिन्-

मा गृहाण विमुंच मा॥८- ४॥

अनुवाद: जब तक 'मैं' या 'मेरा' का भाव है तब तक बंधन है, जब 'मैं' या 'मेरा' का भाव नहीं है तब मुक्ति है। यह जानकर न कुछ त्याग करो और न कुछ ग्रहण ही…

Hurt is not automatic. Somewhere there is an admission from you that you are hurt, and that you would be hurt, and that you would call yourself as hurt. Don’t call yourself as hurt, and see what happens.

Hurt is not an obligation. Hurt is a choice. Insecurity, fear, temptations—none…

Have you looked at kids playing? If you look at kids playing and if you look at animals playing, you won’t find much difference. In fact, human kids go along very well with animal kids. Later on, when we cover ourselves with a lot of acquired knowledge, with a lot…

Welcome pain. You have no option. That’s the way life is meant to be. Life is suffering. Because not only are you designed to have pain, you are also designed to resist pain.

Have pain, and have a lot of depth in your being. So much depth that it can…

We all need space. Man’s inner nature is freedom. When I say man, I mean both man and woman, mankind. Just as you need free mental space, you also need free physical space.

In fact, I find the idea of a shared bed quite vulgar. The double bed is an…

Just as the ego loves to take credit, it also loves to play the victim.

If something good has happened, “I did it!”

If something bad happened, “It happened to me.”

“Good things I do, bad things happen to me”—this is astounding.

Playing the victim is a favorite pastime of…

You were once a girl; you would have read mathematics, history, science, geography, languages. Didn’t you find inspiring figures there? Didn’t those books arouse fantastic ideas in you?

I am sure that when you were younger, you thought of excellence, didn’t you? You would have had dreams. In your dreams,…

Happiness and sadness are both wonderful, are both welcome.

But in some deep sense, sadness is a little better than happiness. It teaches us a little more than happiness does. It elevates us a little more than happiness does. It has a certain purifying effect that happiness does not quite…

If you are suffering, there is nobody but you who is responsible. Unless you fully accept that responsibility, there is no freedom. If your suffering is just incidental, then how can there be freedom from it?—because incidents can happen any way, any day.

You have to, first of all, clearly…

Both the genders have become even more anchored to their physical identity. The more you do that, the more you are in misery because, really, the body is not who you are.

There are places better and higher than the place of your gender specific hormones. Why do you want…

When you say sadness is just sadness, then you have gained freedom from sadness. It means being free from the obligation to label sadness as a loss of self-worth. If you let sadness go deeply into you, there is no way it is not going to touch joy.

It is…

How do we justify our anger? We justify our anger by feeling short-changed, cheated, or victimized; by continuing to assert that we are incomplete, while simultaneously bemoaning the incompleteness. If you have grudges within, if you feel a victim of situations, or past, or persons, and if you lend credence…

The approach of self-help is: “I am sad because my desires have not met fulfillment. So, the way to help myself is: fulfill desires.” It’s a dimensional difference. Therefore, self-help pleases but helps not. It is not then ‘self-help’; the genre should be more correctly called ‘self-gratification’.

And if you…

If Facebook is satisfying you, it is not called as time wasted. Full stop. If the purpose of time is your satisfaction, and if doing all kinds of nonsense on Facebook satisfies you, then you cannot call it as wasted of time.

The only thing that determines whether time or…

Know your duty and give yourself totally to it. Will there be pleasure? No sir, not at all. There would be some higher than pleasure, more fulfilling, more satisfying than pleasure. Pleasure is a turncoat: today one thing, tomorrow another thing.

The one who lives by his duty, his dharma…

You are a bird; your nature is to fly. You don’t need to be taught your nature; you need to be freed from the cage.

But we are pretty special characters. Instead of opening the door of the cage, we try to teach the bird to fly within the cage,…

There is someone you say you love dearly. You tell that person, “You are my life!” That person passes away; within a few hours, you are found having your meals. You are in grief—the body is not in grief, the brain is not in grief. The brain is telling the…

If it was possible for one man to move towards greatness, it was possible for everybody. Nothing hurts the small man more than seeing a great man in his vicinity, or a small man trying to move towards greatness. It’s an utter insult.

The moment even one person defies smallness…

Facebook spirituality says, “The greatest religion is not to hurt others.” Just Google it, you’ll find a million responses. What is the greatest religion? To not hurt others.

If there is one fellow who is a bigger culprit than the fellow who gets easily hurt, it is the one who…

For us, life means reactivity. Life is not peace to us. Life is not meditativeness to us. We feel alive when we are tense, reactive, and agitated. Then you say that now you have come alive.

The fellow is sitting silently and peacefully, unnoticeable. You will say he is a…

What is the wrong choice? Anything that involves helplessness is the wrong choice. That’s the definition. Whenever you say, “I got angry”; whenever you say, “I am depressed,” it is a wrong choice because you are not admitting that you have chosen to be depressed. You are not admitting that…

We deeply disagree with freedom. We may keep saying we want it, but we agree only with the cage. Why do we agree to the cage? Because the cage gives us fruits and vegetables. Freedom means, no more fruits and vegetables. Freedom means, now you are on your own. Go,…

The lion kills all his life, but he cannot be called violent. He cannot be called non-violent either. He is just doing what his physical conditioning compels him to do. He has no option. Man has the option to kill and not to kill. Man has the option to choose…

Who told you that rape is merely a sexual activity? Anything that you look at just as a body, as a material to be consumed, is rape. A mind that cannot love will only rape. And we all rape. Look at the way people spread dirt around. Is that not…

Is there discipline without pain? You have to get up at some point in the morning—doesn’t that involve pain? Pleasure is to keep sleeping even after the alarm has rung—is that not pleasurable?

So, all discipline is nothing but pain. It’s very well-directed pain, it’s very discrete pain, but nevertheless,…

अजीब सी स्थिति यह है कि एक साधारण दिखने वाली लड़की से शायद ज़्यादा मुश्किल है एक सुंदर लड़की की ज़िंदगी, क्योंकि उसके खरीददार बहुत ज़्यादा हैं और उसे बहुत कुछ मिल जाएगा। और यह जो तुमको मिल जाएगा न अपनी सुंदरता के कारण, यही नर्क है तुम्हारा। तुमको लगेगा,…

तुम्हारे सामने पहलवान खड़ा हो लड़ाई के लिए, और तुम उस वक़्त कहो कि, “मैं अब ज़रा दंड-बैठक करता हूँ, शरीर बनाता हूँ”, तो तुम पिटोगे ही नहीं, बहुत बुरी तरह पिटोगे!

एक सज्जन थे, उन्हें सलाह दी गई थी कि, ‘साहब! आपका कॉलेस्ट्रॉल बहुत बढ़ गया है, तो आप…

If you are occupied in something really worthwhile, would you really care for things like pain? Even an ordinary sportsperson would tell you that when you are pursuing something even as normal as victory in a match, pain ceases to be a big botheration. Unless it becomes crippling; then you…

दूसरे आपका हाथ मरोड़ रहे हैं, समझिए क्यों। क्योंकि आप हाथ मरोड़वाने के लिए तैयार खड़े हैं।

धोखा एक बार हो सकता है न, बार-बार हो तो इसका क्या मतलब है? कोई व्यक्ति आपके साथ एक बार दुर्व्यवहार कर गया, ठीक। बार-बार कर रहा है, क्या मतलब है इस बात…

यही जीवन जीने की कला है, मौज करो, मस्ती करो! गंभीर मत हो जाना। बिलकुल हल्के रहो, क्योंकि रखा क्या है?

आज तुम जिस बात को गंभीरता से लेते हो, कल वो तुम्हारे लिए दो पैसे की हो जाएगी। याद है, जब चौथी-पाँचवी में रिज़ल्ट आया था तो तुम कैसे…

Those who suppress their loneliness become victims of suppression. Those who keep in touch with their loneliness come up with great creativity.

Beautiful songs have risen out of human melancholy. People talk of songs written in joy. I say that all songs that have any truth in them have actually…

हर आदमी अपनी नज़र में नाकाम आशिक़ बन कर घूम रहा है। बहुतों का तो ब्रेकअप तब हो जाता है जब उनका कोई अफ़ेयर भी नहीं था। कहो, “क्यों इतने उदास हो?” “ब्रेकअप हो गया है!” तेरा अफ़ेयर कब था भाई? पर ब्रेकअप में जो रुहानी आनंद है वो तो …

ये खिसिआना, ये चिढ़चिढ़ाना, ये तनाव, ये खींझ, ये क्रोध, ये उदासी, ये सूनापन, ये भाव कि ‘जीवन ने हमारे साथ अन्याय किया है, हम शोषित हैं, हम शिकार हैं’, ये क्या कर रहा है हमारे साथ? कहीं का छोड़ रहा है हमको? और क्या हम सब इसी भाव में…

जिसने तुमको चोट पहुँचाई उसने तुमको इसीलिए चोट पहुँचाई न कि तुम्हें वो चोट पहुँचाए और तुम आंतरिक रुप से आहत हो जाओ? तो दुश्मन को तुम्हारा करारा-से-करारा जवाब क्या हो सकता है? उसके उद्देश्य को पूरा मत होने दो।

वह सोच रहा था कि वो तुमको गाली दे देगा…

तुम बहुत चीज़ों को लेकर परेशान हो, ज़िन्दगी के तमाम झंझट हैं, ये है, वो है और लग गए एक गेम (खेल) खेलने। अब वो जो गेम खेल रहे हो तुम वो नशे की तरह तुम्हें थोड़ी देर के लिए भुलवा देगा कि तुम कितने परेशान हो।

पर कोई भी…

Spiritual practitioners, those who have really wanted to know and live life fully, have invited pain. Knowing fully well that the road they are taking would hurt them, they have still gone down those roads.

To the common man, pain is incidental, uninvited. It comes as a surprise: “Oh! Pain…

Life will certainly teach you, but at the cost of great suffering. And there is no guarantee you will be able to learn in a lifetime, because when your life teaches you then life has no conscious agenda to teach you. Life just operates on the principle of result of…

दुनिया के बाप रहो! ना सिर्फ़ तुम्हें चोट नहीं लगनी चाहिए बल्कि तुम में इतनी करुणा होनी चाहिए कि मारने वाले से भी पूछो, “हाथ तो नहीं टूट गया तेरा?”

पहली बात तो फ़ौलाद जैसा होना चाहिए तुमको कि कोई तुम्हें मार भी रहा है तो तुम्हें कुछ नहीं हो…

हम छुपे हुए दर्द में जीनेवाले लोग हैं, पूरी दुनिया के सब लोग हैं, छुपे हुए दर्द में ही जी रहे हैं। यह सब जो हँसते हुए, मुस्कुराते हुए लोग तुमको चारों ओर दिख रहे हैं, यह हँस-मुस्कुरा सिर्फ़ इसलिए रहे हैं क्योंकि इन्हें अपनी छाती का दर्द का कुछ…