Acharya Prashant

1 week ago | sundayguardianlive.com | Acharya Prashant

Violent relationships reflect deep societal flaws—rushed marriages, lack of emotional education, and cultural silence turn love into suffering. Every now and then, a disturbing news story grabs the nation’s attention – one that seems too extraordinarily gruesome to be real, yet involves seemingly ordinary people. We would like to call such incidents as aberrations.

2 weeks ago | dailymotion.com | Acharya Prashant

00:00Namaskar Acharya Ji. I think my question has three aspects to it. So, the first aspect00:10is the psychosocial aspect and my question is that nowadays we see a lot of quick fix00:17philosophies and they seem to work for a lot of people. So, the philosophies of you only00:23live once, body positivity or positivity in general and self-love and you know like these00:33kind of things which seem to work for people.

2 weeks ago | dailymotion.com | Acharya Prashant

00:00Dear Achayaji, for the sake of not sounding hypocritical, I have to admit that I have killed more than one mosquito in my life and many other insects too, but never intended to cause pain and suffering to them. 00:17Now hearing, let alone seeing, relatively conscious animals being tortured evokes almost unbearable pain and helplessness in me. 00:26Of course, if you understand where your pain, helplessness and concern come from, then you will be more determined, more unflinching in your stand.

2 weeks ago | dailymotion.com | Acharya Prashant

00:00This definition of success that deals with amassing stuff, with conquering nature, with deforestation, with more and more land available for your own personal consumption. 00:12This definition of success is dirty, violent and criminal. 00:17The emissions by the top 1% of global population was responsible for 1.3 million deaths in the last 10 years. 00:28Should we call it bloody success? 00:30Please understand, it's not just about temperature rise.

2 weeks ago | dailymotion.com | Acharya Prashant

00:00You have seen animals in captivity? Don't they breed there? 00:03In fact, probably they breed more prolifically in captivity than in their relative freedom of the jungle. 00:09If I am being held captive and being given enough food and if there is a partner, then I'll breed. 00:15Just keep me comfortable. 00:16The body says comfort is more important than freedom because the body is not interested in the higher things of life. 00:24You are reading a great book.