Always Have A Purpose || Acharya Prashant

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Transcript

00:00Everything that you do must be in the shadow of this question.

00:03What is it for? My time is limited. What did I do it for?

00:06Again, this does not go well with traditional spirituality that says that life has to be purposeless.

00:12Purposelessness etc. are stuff that must happen only at the absolute end.

00:20Where we all usually stand, life must be very purposeful.

00:24And questions must be pointedly asked.

00:28I spent this evening, a full three and a half hours doing this.

00:32Right in the middle of a movie. Why can't we ask ourselves?

00:35The ticket is already bought. The money is gone. It's a sunk cost.

00:39Am I getting something? If not, why must I not walk away?

00:42This walking away, this dropping, this letting go, this renunciation is at the core of all spirituality.

00:49Drop, drop, drop. Ruthlessly learn to give up.

00:53What has no use?