The Ultimate Antidote to All Addictions || Acharya Prashant (2022)

Acharya Prashant

Video Information: 10.12.22, Mithibai College, Mumbai  Context: ~ How to avoid addictions? ~ How to quit smoking? ~ How to quit bad habits?  ~ What is the purpose of life?  ~ Why are we easily distracted?   Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00 Namaste Sir, my name is Vibhamishtha, I am for FYGC Arts.

00:06 Basically my question is, in this teenage years, how do we avoid social events like

00:11 bad addiction and bad activities which exist in society and just focus on our goal?

00:18 For that the goal has to be alluring enough.

00:21 Thank you.

00:23 The goal has to be captivating enough and then all kinds of addictions and wastage of

00:32 time, energy, effort, money, that will just not happen on its own.

00:38 Tell me, when you are doing something really meaningful, do you find you have the inclination

00:49 to just get up and go elsewhere and waste time?

00:53 Does that happen?

00:54 That doesn't happen.

00:57 How many of you play cricket for example?

01:00 Today we had a swashbuckling innings by one of the players, so cricket.

01:06 So how many of you bat?

01:10 How many of you bowl?

01:13 Has it happened that in the middle of your run up, you have stopped, taken out your mobile

01:19 and ordered a pizza?

01:23 Has it happened?

01:24 Or the bowler is coming at you and you say, "Please stop.

01:33 I want to gossip with the wicket keeper."

01:36 Has that happened?

01:37 Why does that not happen?

01:42 Why does that not happen?

01:47 Because you are in attention, out of your own volition.

01:56 You know what is happening, you are in the game and you love being in the game.

02:02 Nothing else is on your mind and that's the best way of living, is it not?

02:09 One thing and nothing else on your mind.

02:11 Could we be on the crease forever as the batsmen?

02:15 Wow!

02:16 Unfortunately, life gets us out every time.

02:19 Some wicket you occur and the stumps are shattered and we have to return to the pavilion.

02:26 And what happens in the pavilion?

02:29 All kinds of distractions now.

02:33 All kinds of… and somebody is ready for a fight and somebody is sleeping too much,

02:38 somebody is eating too much, somebody is smoking too much, this, that, somebody is gambling

02:42 too much.

02:45 Now all kinds of things can happen.

02:48 But nothing of that sort will happen when you have the ball or the bat in your hand.

02:54 Why not continuously be on the crease, I am asking you, please.

03:02 Same applies to all kinds of sports.

03:05 Cracket sports, tennis, badminton.

03:09 In the middle of a badminton rally, how many of you have stopped to scratch your back?

03:15 Please stop and you have ordered the shuttle to just keep hanging there.

03:21 You know I need to scratch my back a bit.

03:24 Yes, shuttle.

03:26 Does that happen?

03:27 Why can't we forever be in the middle of a rally?

03:33 That's what you know life actually is, by the way.

03:36 It's a rally.

03:38 It's a rally between you and the one called Maya.

03:44 You can also call her life itself.

03:49 How do you find time to be distracted?

03:55 You are losing all the points if you are getting distracted.

03:59 Are you not?

04:02 Temptations, addictions, distractions, none of these can be avoided if you do not have

04:12 a great central purpose in life to love.

04:22 Forever be spread out, scattered, always be concentrated densely at one place.

04:37 There is just one thing.

04:41 The wise ones from all places, all times and all streams have always talked of the one,

04:49 one, one.

04:51 Keep spirituality apart.

04:54 That oneness, that unification is the central thing in life.

05:02 Have some one thing and forget everything else.

05:10 You will say, but how do I identify that one thing?

05:15 You will keep trying out.

05:18 Let life be a continuous movement towards that one thing.

05:22 If you cannot concentrate on that one thing, then concentrate on getting that one thing.

05:35 Always believe that you are destined to be the highest and to reach the greatest spot

05:44 possible.

05:45 Therefore, never settle down.

05:48 Always keep asking yourself, how do I evolve?

05:51 How do I learn?

05:53 How do I be better?

05:55 How do I move on?

05:58 No place is your final destination.

06:01 Are you getting it?

06:04 And when you have your eyes firmly set on greatness, then all kinds of distraction will

06:15 appear very kiddish.

06:18 It's like we are talking to each other and one among you is looking around for lollipops.

06:26 Is that likely to happen?

06:30 Something extremely important and very engaging is going on and one of you is looking around.

06:40 Does somebody have Hajmola?

06:45 Is that likely to happen?

06:46 No.

06:48 But all our lives that's what we are doing, looking around for lollipop, Hajmola, something.

06:55 Because we don't engage life enough.

06:58 Don't live on the surface of life.

07:01 Dive deep into it.

07:03 When you do something, get into it.

07:07 When you read, read fully.

07:09 Get into what is being said.

07:11 Don't just turn pages and complete formalities.

07:15 When you listen, listen deeply.

07:18 Be fully present.

07:20 Keep everything else aside.

07:21 Just listen.

07:22 What's happening?

07:23 What's really happening?

07:24 Turn this into a habit.

07:28 When I listen, I listen.

07:29 When I play, I play my heart out.

07:36 I don't care for injuries.

07:38 I don't care for victory either.

07:41 I just play my heart out.

07:46 Then all the trivia and trash that surround the usual life, you will find they are very

07:54 distant.

07:58 [Music]

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