Why am I unable to be involved in my work? || Acharya Prashant (2015)

Listener 1: Work is to be completed and there is the habit of seeking pleasure too, because of which work gets neglected, so a dilemma is there. How to come out of this?

Acharya Prashant: Why are these two different? There is work and then there is something else, why is there a separation?

L1: Because that has been conditioned that work is negative and is not pleasurable.

AP: And that what makes the other thing pleasurable.

L1: Yes.

AP: But is that a fact?

L1: No

AP: Then why must you repeat that conditioning? Why must you maintain that separation? Till the time you keep saying that this is work and that is the pleasure, work by definition becomes a burden.