(Gita-27) Krishna's Warning to Arjuna: Everyone is Making This Mistake! || Acharya Prashant (2024)
Video Information: 15.11.2024, Vedanta: Basics to Classics, Greater Noida
📋 Video Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:06 - The Nature of Liberation
5:10 - Exploring the Vedas and Their Teachings
8:05 - The Role of Desire in Spiritual Growth
10:19 - Turning Inward for Liberation
12:15 - The Journey from Nature Worship to Self-Inquiry
17:32 - The Courage of Disillusionment
20:13 - Innocence and Honesty in Acknowledging Desires
26:48 - Liberation Through Fully Experiencing Desire
31:38 - Hypocrisy in Desire and Its Consequences
37:56 - The Transition from Rituals to Vedantic Knowledge
41:33 - Recognising the Central Message of the Upanishads
47:35 - Honesty as the Key to Inner Freedom
51:53 - The Role of Relationships in Addressing Inner Truths
1:00:30 - Gita’s Teachings on Moving Beyond Desire
1:09:24 - Desirelessness: The Core of Spiritual Practice
Description:
Acharya Prashant highlights humanity’s tendency to seek fulfillment through external desires, a theme reflected in the Vedas. The Rigveda, with its hymns and rituals directed at natural forces like Agni and Surya, mirrors the initial human engagement with the world for needs like health, prosperity, and protection. This outward focus is not a flaw but an inevitable starting point rooted in human nature.
The Vedic seers approached their desires with honesty, allowing disillusionment to lead them beyond these desires. The journey from Karmakand (rituals) to the Upanishads symbolizes a shift from external dependence to internal realization. The Upanishads reject fulfillment through nature or rituals, urging inward exploration for true liberation.
Modern society’s denial of desires fosters self-deception and spiritual stagnation, contrasting with the Vedic sincerity. Acknowledging and understanding desires is essential for their dissolution, paving the way to freedom and alignment with deeper truths.
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