
Keep fighting. Keep fighting till your victory, and keep fighting in your defeat. The second part is more important. Keep fighting even when you have been beaten down. Keep fighting even when yours looks like a hopeless cause, a lost battle. Don’t just start wallowing in self-pity and self-abuse. “Oh!…

सही लक्ष्य की खातिर जियो। दिल में एक सही उद्वेश्य होना चाहिए। उसके बाद किसी पॉजिटिव थिंकिंग की ज़रूरत नहीं पड़ेगी। ये चीज़ इतनी ज़बरदस्त मिल गई है, प्यार हो गया है इससे, अब मजबूर हैं इसके सामने। अब चाहें भी पीछे हटना तो हट नहीं सकते। जब ऐसा हो…

If you are just looking for decent looks and somebody to accompany you to the movies, then anybody would do. But if you are looking really to not make a waste of your life, and if you are looking for someone who just refreshes you, gives you freedom from all…

प्रश्नकर्ता: सर नमस्ते, मुझे ये समझने में बड़ी समस्या होती है कि किस पर भरोसा करूँ और किस पर न करूँ।
आचार्य प्रशांत: किसी पर भी भरोसा करने का निर्णय तुम ही करोगे न? और भरोसा नहीं करने का भी निर्णय तुम ही करोगे। तो अंततः तुमने भरोसा किस पर…

तस्मादज्ञानसम्भूतं हृत्स्थं ज्ञानासिनात्मन:।
छित्त्वैनं संशयं योगमातिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ भारत।। 4.42 ।।
tasmād ajñāna-sambhūtaṁ hṛit-sthaṁ jñānāsinātmanaḥ

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, आपने अपने एक संवाद में कहा है कि व्यक्तित्व की बात हम इसीलिए करते हैं क्योंकि हम मूलतत्त्व से अनभिज्ञ रहते हैं। मेरा प्रश्न है कि – हम दूसरों के मूलतत्त्व को कैसे देखें?
और दूसरा प्रश्न है कि – किसी के मूलतत्त्व को देखने की कोशिश…

Questioner: An episode in my life haunts me. It’s me who keeps on revising that ugly memory when there is a similar situation? How do I prevent myself from such an emotional self harm?
Acharya Prashant: The mind is such a bottomless abyss. An abyss tired of its own bareness,…

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, जब कोई कुछ बोलता है, तो न चाहते हुए भी ‘ना’ नहीं बोल पाता हूँ।
आचार्य प्रशांत: ‘ना’ तो तुम बोलते हो, ऐसा तो नहीं है कि ‘ना’ नहीं बोल पाते।
ऐसा नहीं है। ‘ना’ तो हम बोलते हैं, वहाँ हमारा गणित होता है। हमें अच्छे से

आचार्य प्रशांत: सूफी था एक, उसके घर खाने को ज्यादा रहता नहीं था | बस उतना कि अपना, सुबह खा लिया अपना | शाम की ज्यादा फिकर नही, शाम को मिल गया तो अच्छा, नही मिला तो भी कोई बात नही और जो सूफी साधना है उसमें कम खाने पर…

आचार्य प्रशांत: अच्छा, आप ने एक चीज़ गौर करी है? यूँ ही, कहीं रहो, घर में, बाज़ार में, बोलना आसान होता है। यहाँ आते हैं, शुरुआत में, बोलना थोड़ा सा अटक जाता है और फिर कुछ देर बाद, या आधे घंटे बाद, यहाँ भी बोलना आसान हो जाता है,…

आचार्य प्रशांत: सवाल ये है कि, मैंने कहा है कि जो कुछ भी आप तक पहुँच रहा है उसकी असलियत जानिये। उसका सत्य पहचानिए। सतह पर मत रह जाइए। चीज़ वास्तव में क्या है, इस तक जाइए। तो पूछ रही हैं कि ये कैसे हो? डिकोड (समझा) कैसे करें?…

Questioner: I believe that I like the ability to trust people. I like I found myself trying to flirt with fake as I say. There are times when I find myself desiring or trying or making a very good effort to be in faith and then there will be time…

श्रोता १: सर, मेरी लाइफ में बहुत सारे चिंता के विषय होते हैं जैसे मेरे परिवार में मेरे पेरेंट्स के बीच कुछ हो गया, झगड़ लिए हैं दोनों तो फिर उन दोनों को समझाना है पर वो समझ नहीं रहे । जैसे एक दोस्त है कि जा रहा है खाए…

Question: Ashtavakra talks about being desireless, dispassionate, and egoless. A wise man is defined to possess all these virtues. But how?
Acharya Prashant: See, look at the wordings. You are saying Ashtavakra talks about being Desireless, Dispassionate, and Egoless. Mind these three words. The conclusion being drawn by the questioner

Excerpt: You must realize that it is not the past actions that are putting you in prison, you must realize that actions are not necessarily good or bad. You have been given a criterion to look at those actions and that criterion is not yours. Different cultures, different people, different…

Question: Trust is the foundation of all relations. Where does trust come from?
Speaker: Write down:
Belief – ImaginationTrust – FactFaith – Truth

Acharya Prashant (AP): What do we call as a dead relationship?
Questioner (Q): When we cannot relate.
AP: Yet the person is right in front of you. Right?

Speaker: Mind has so much stored, that it does not even know how much is stored. There are two portions to the storage. There are two parts of this godown. One part is – where you know that you have something stored. And the other part is – where you…

Question: Sir, I have a few questions related to simplicity as follows:
A. What is simplicity?B. How is simplicity related to courage?C. How is simplicity related to intelligence?D. How is it related to love?
Answer: In your previous mail, you said,

प्रश्न: अभी हम लोग कार में आ रहे थे तो उसमें ओशो के वचन चल रहे थे। उसमें उन्होंने कहा कि जब आप कभी ज़्यादा सोचते हो, तो आप कहीं नहीं पहुँच पाते। आप जब भी किसी चीज़ को बहुत ज़्यादा सोचोगे, तो आप किसी भी दिशा में आगे कहीं…

Speaker: The question is, ‘Why do I find myself unable to trust?’
I could see that he was feeling a little awkward while raising this question, even a little apologetic. You feel that maybe there is something in wrong with you that you find yourself unable to trust but let…

Question: Sir, once in a session we were told that there is no unconditional love. So, Sir is there any point of trust in any relationship? Can we trust in any relationship?
Speaker: Was it said that there is nothing called as unconditional love?

प्रश्न : विश्वास क्या है?
वक्ता : विश्वास का अर्थ है- मानना । विश्वास का अर्थ है कहना कि ‘ऐसा है’ । ये जो वाक्य है, ‘ऐसा है’, इसको तीन-चार अलग अलग तलों पर कहा जा सकता है । सबसे नीचे का जो तल है, वो है *‘अंधविश्वास’*। उसके ऊपर…

chhittvainaṁ sanśhayaṁ yogam ātiṣhṭhottiṣhṭha bhārata
Therefore, with the sword of Realisation (of the Self) cut asunder the doubt about the Truth, born of ignorance, residing in your heart and take refuge in Yoga, arise O Bharata!
~…
Both…

What is the root cause of unhappiness? Why strength is necessary for liberation? Why ego can not reflect on itself?



किससे मिल रहे हो? किससे नहीं मिल रहे हो? कहाँ रोज़ पहुँच जाते हो? कहाँ से पैसे ला रहे हो? पहली बात – क्या ईमानदारी से काम रहे हो? दूसरी बात – जो कमा रहे हो, उसको खर्च कहाँ कर रहे हो? छः घण्टे से कोई खबरिया चैनल लगा कर…

Does the person you are with encourage you to read? You have to ask, “What does he bring for me, roses or books?”
Be very cautious of those who bring roses for you, especially red roses. Books are what we all need, and books are dangerous. Books are dangerous because…

The woman is simpler, more innocent. I would dare to say the woman is simple and innocent just as animals are, because woman, just like animals, is biology-driven. She is emotional, and her emotions do not really arise from understanding, not even from intellect. Her emotions arise from her body, from her biological conditioning, from her hormones.

Now, mind is movement, right? Why does the mind move at all? The mind wants to reach somewhere. Where does the mind want to reach? Is that place within the mind? The mind wants to reach somewhere. Every thought, every action, every motivation, every emotion rides on a desire, is…

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प्रसंग:
भारत या इंडिया? इंडिया से नाम बदलकर भारत रखना चाहिए क्या? क्या इंडिया नाम विदेशियों ने दिया है? क्या है इंडिया और भारत का इतिहास? क्या देश का नाम बदलना आवश्यक है? कॉलोनाइजेशन और डी-कॉलोनाइजेशन क्या हैं? क्यों कहा जाता है कि भारत का कॉलोनाइजेशन हुआ है? भारत को…

◾ एक ही जाति होती है - वह है "बल"। बल विकसित करो अपने भीतर।
◾ आत्मा का इस पूरे देह व्यापार से कोई लेना देना ही नहीं।
◾ मिथ्याचारी वह है जो आगे के लालच में अच्छा काम करता है।
◾ आत्मा का विकृत सिद्धांत ही भारत की दुर्दशा…

प्रश्नकर्ता: मन, आत्मा और मैं, जैसे कि मैं अतृप्त आत्मा हूँ, हम बोलते हैं या मैं बोलता हूँ तो उसमें से, मैं और अतृप्त चेतना हूँ तो…।
आचार्य प्रशांत: सब पता है क्यों मुस्कुरा रहे हैं? क्योंकि अभी मैं गया भी नहीं, और आपने कहानियाँ बना लीं।
प्र: सवाल मन…

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, जैसे मैं पहले किसी सत्संग में जाती थी, वहाँ पर कुछ बातें बतायी जाती थीं। अष्टावक्र गीता पर आपने बताया कि आज यहाँ पर उसकी उपयोगिता नहीं है। और अष्टावक्र जी ने जैसे बताया है कि ब्रह्म-ही-ब्रह्म है, आत्मा-ही-आत्मा है। तो अभी कुछ दिन पहले मैं अपने…

You cannot love someone or something you know very little of. The nation at its root represents a community of people united through certain values. A nation does not become admirable or respectable or lovable just by the dint of being a nation.
If you are to fall in love…

The politician, we very well know, is a criminal and yet we belong to his fan club. So, who is it who is promoting crime, then? Look at the parliament of the country. I suppose half the parliamentarians have criminal cases against them, close to half. And they didn’t muscle…

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…

There is nothing in spirituality that will ever violate science. It’s just that spirituality will venture into areas where science never goes at all. Spirituality, for example, will talk about you. Science never talks about you. That’s the difference—that’s the only difference.
It is very, very sad that 99%, I…

What does it mean to have an inauthentic relationship?
To be authentic is to be complete and secure in yourself. Anything authentic is not in need of further improvement or refinement; it is already authentic. That is the way the authentic mind functions: it does not relate with the other…

No situation is too bad to make a right choice in, and no situation is so good that you no more need the right choice—in a good situation, in a bad situation, in apparently easy situations, in apparently tough situations. Anything can happen anytime.
It’s a matter of your choice,…

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,…

Swami Vivekananda has said, “First of all, our young men must be strong; religion will come afterwards. Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to heaven through football than through the study of the Gita.”
Swami Vivekananda was no soccer evangelist. His…

There was this king of the demons; his name was Hiranyakashyupa. The king worked really hard. He kept austerities, he forced even God to come down and bless him. So, it would have required a very special effort. But then, what did he want from God? Nothing but the extension…

Let your situations, your circumstances, your possessions, your particular destination in life not become important enough or significant enough to define you. Let your self-worth not be dictated by things that are external.
But since everything is external, let your self-worth not be dictated by anything at all. Which means,…

If you want to know why you kept working, slogging for the thirty days, the most effective way is to see what you are doing with the paycheck. What you are doing with the paycheck will very loudly demonstrate why you kept working the thirty days. See what you do…

When you don’t operate from a spiritual center, then you operate from an emotional center. These emotions are causing this climate change. You are so emotional about that next foreign holiday, right? That is carbon intensive. You are so emotional about having a good, nice nest of your own—that is…

We need to see a lot of young people traveling on their own. We need to see a lot of young people living all by themselves for very long years, many, many long years. We need to see these things.
And we need to see young people who are much…

The planet has already given you as much as it could. You cannot draw any more from it. So, we can very safely and very confidently say that for the world, in general, the future is internal growth. If economics is about welfare, then further welfare of this planet and…