Leadership

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तृप्त मन ही आत्मा है || आचार्य प्रशांत (2019)
तृप्त मन ही आत्मा है || आचार्य प्रशांत (2019)
5 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: मन, आत्मा और मैं, जैसे कि मैं अतृप्त आत्मा हूँ, हम बोलते हैं या मैं बोलता हूँ तो उसमें से, मैं और अतृप्त चेतना हूँ तो…।

आचार्य प्रशांत: सब पता है क्यों मुस्कुरा रहे हैं? क्योंकि अभी मैं गया भी नहीं, और आपने कहानियाँ बना लीं।

प्र: सवाल मन

We voted for crime || Neem Candies
We voted for crime || Neem Candies
1 min

The politician, we very well know, is a criminal and yet we belong to his fan club. So, who is it who is promoting crime, then? Look at the parliament of the country. I suppose half the parliamentarians have criminal cases against them, close to half. And they didn’t muscle

Man must choose rightly || Neem Candies
Man must choose rightly || Neem Candies
1 min

Man has the capacity to choose, and man must take responsibility of how he is living his life, what he has turned the Earth into.

In fact, I feel impelled to say this: When I was in the process of quitting my corporate career and moving to teaching, I was

Focus your talent, gain respect || Neem Candies
Focus your talent, gain respect || Neem Candies
1 min

There is something honorable about dying against a major enemy. But what honor is there in being consumed by the little?

Set a great goal. Even if you lose, it will at least be a great defeat. And if you set a timid, scared, conventional, narrow goal, then even if

Teachers’ Day wisdom: the only way to truly honor your teacher || Neem Candies
Teachers’ Day wisdom: the only way to truly honor your teacher || Neem Candies
1 min

The teacher’s role is to show that a teacher is not needed. That is the rightful role of the teacher. I repeat, the teacher’s role is to show that you are unnecessarily coming to the teacher. You are self-sufficient.

Look at the way the world is—violent, chaotic, anarchic. Every thought

क्रिकेट देखने का मज़ा ही तब है || नीम लड्डू
क्रिकेट देखने का मज़ा ही तब है || नीम लड्डू
2 min

मैं वनडे(एक दिवसिय) देखता नहीं, टी-२० देखता नहीं, मैं सिर्फ़ टेस्ट मैच देखता हूँ; वह भी तब जब भारत जाता है – वो ही जो सेना कंट्रीज़ हैं चार, साउथ अफ्रीका, इंग्लैंड, न्यूज़ीलैंड, ऑस्ट्रेलिया – और उसमें भी तब देखता हूँ जब टीम की हालत बिलकुल ख़राब हो, क्योंकि

कहीं जवानी व्यर्थ ही न निकल जाए || नीम लड्डू
कहीं जवानी व्यर्थ ही न निकल जाए || नीम लड्डू
1 min

युवा होने का अर्थ होता है कि सुडौल शरीर हो, चौंड़ी छाती, मज़बूत कंधे और विराट ह्रदय। दुनिया की समझ, दुनिया की सारी क्रांतियाँ जवान लोगों ने करी हैं। और ‘क्रांति’ से मेरा मतलब पत्थरबाजी और हुल्लड़ नहीं है। क्रांति बहुत समझदार लोगों का काम होती है, क्रांति का मतलब

ऐसे जाँचो अपनी ताक़त को || नीम लड्डू
ऐसे जाँचो अपनी ताक़त को || नीम लड्डू
2 min

आचार्य प्रशांत: सिर्फ़ इसलिए कि तुम्हें शरीर मिला है इंसान का तो तुम इंसान नहीं हो गए।

इंसान बस वो है जो चुनौतियों के सामने बिलकुल छाती खोल कर खड़ा हो जाए। कहे, “आओ!” जैसे सुबह हो गई हो, ऊर्जा आ गई हो शरीर में कि सामने चुनौती खड़ी हो

इसलिए नहीं मिलती सरकारी नौकरी || नीम लड्डू
इसलिए नहीं मिलती सरकारी नौकरी || नीम लड्डू
1 min

आचार्य प्रशांत: हिंदुस्तान में जानते हो न दस-लाख लोग आवेदन भरते हैं और चयन होता है दो-सौ का। ऐसे ही चलता है न? कितना प्रतिशत हुआ ये? प्रश्नकर्ता: एक-प्रतिशत भी नहीं हुआ। आचार्य: कितना हुआ? तुम्हें अध्यात्म की नहीं, मैथ्स (गणित) की ज़रूरत है। ऐसे नहीं किसी भी काम में

Earn the right to celebrate || Neem Candies
Earn the right to celebrate || Neem Candies
1 min

We do not deserve to celebrate. What is there to celebrate in our life? Every festival is like an examination day.

Yes, certain people do have all the rights to celebrate on an examination day; but who will be those people? Who have prepared well for those exams, who have

Be fearless, patient and diligent || Neem Candies
Be fearless, patient and diligent || Neem Candies
1 min

Ruthlessly question everything, and patiently and devotedly seek to understand. You must ask the most fundamental questions. What is the school? What does it mean to be an American versus an Indian? Why do we call somebody a girl and the other a boy? What is our relationship with the

Consumption is not the way ahead || Neem Candies
Consumption is not the way ahead || Neem Candies
1 min

The mind of the economist has to now stop thinking in the language of consumption. All they talk of is demand and supply, production and consumption. Consumption is not the way ahead. Economics and spirituality have to converge now. You cannot keep measuring human wellness by human consumption anymore. Not

Superconscious Leadership (Part 1)
Superconscious Leadership (Part 1)
56 min

Acharya Prashant (AP): How do we begin?

Questioner (Q) (Nitesh): Yes, we’re here again. I know we spoke in the past about different topics. But I decided to use your help, or use your insight, into leadership and management side of things of life, and so we arranged this for

If a leader needs followers, he will never let them be free
If a leader needs followers, he will never let them be free
9 min

Questioner (Q): Sir, you have said that a real leader does not need followers. I want to understand this.

Acharya Prashant (Q): The question is, “Sir the handout reads very clearly that a real leader does not need followers. I want to understand this. To understand this statement, you will

The real leader does not need followers
The real leader does not need followers
5 min

Acharya Prashant (AP): What is leadership?

Questioner (Q): The quality to lead others.

AP: Why must I be interested in leading somebody? Don’t I have my own life to live? Why must somebody be interested in following me? Doesn’t he have his own intelligence?

Q: Sir, leadership is also taking

Don’t blindly rush into ‘good’ deeds
Don’t blindly rush into ‘good’ deeds
18 min

Questioner: Pranam Acharya Ji, So the regards to that what must be done v/s what we want to do. A lot of things, one is Environment, Veganism, etc. We understand we have to choose one activity that is most critical. When you say critical it is like most people are

What is the right decision? || (2020)
What is the right decision? || (2020)
4 min

Questioner: How do we say that a decision is right or wrong? What is right for one is wrong for the other. Nature has given everyone the right to decide, who are we to label someone as wrong?

Acharya Prashant: Right or wrong really are not decided in the context

छोटी बातों में उलझे रहोगे तो बड़ा काम कब करोगे? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2019)
छोटी बातों में उलझे रहोगे तो बड़ा काम कब करोगे? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2019)
8 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, आपके वीडियो में एक बात सुनी थी, वो बात मन में ठहर गई। अब जो भी हरकत करता हूँ, जो भी गलती करता हूँ, तो उस वीडियो में सुनी उस बात को याद कर लेता हूँ, और उसी के संदर्भ में सीखने का प्रयास करता हूँ।

आपने

महापुरुषों जैसा होना है? || (2019)
महापुरुषों जैसा होना है? || (2019)
6 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: ऊँचा जीवन कैसे जीएँ? आदर्शों को अपने जीवन में कैसे अपनाएँ?

आचार्य प्रशांत: जिसको भी तुम मानते हो अपने से ऊँचा, जिसको भी सम्माननीय मानते हो, उसकी छवि लगातार आँखों में बसी रहे। और आँखें ऐसी हैं नहीं कि जब तक वो भौतिक रूप से न देखें तब तक

हम ऐसे बदलेंगे नौकरशाही, राजनीति और देश को || आचार्य प्रशांत (2019)
हम ऐसे बदलेंगे नौकरशाही, राजनीति और देश को || आचार्य प्रशांत (2019)
15 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, मेरा सवाल ब्यूरोक्रेसी (नौकरशाही) से है। हमारे ऊपर जो अधिकारी हैं, क्या उन्हें जागरूक नहीं होना चाहिए? हम लोग भी सोचते हैं कि अगर हमारा बॉस थोड़ा जागरूक होता, तो वो और अच्छे निर्णय ले सकते था।

आचार्य प्रशांत: ऐसा आप सोचती हैं अपने बॉस के बारे

How can one help in Acharya Prashant's mission? || Acharya Prashant (2019)
How can one help in Acharya Prashant's mission? || Acharya Prashant (2019)
3 min

Questioner: Pranaam Acharya Ji!

To me personally, the most recent Vishranti Camp was special, because, among other things, the Master spoke of one of the main projects of this life and extended an open invitation towards work, that came straight from the Source.

Ever since that camp, one of the

क्या बड़ों का सुझाव हमेशा सही होता है? || आचार्य प्रशांत, युवाओ के संग (2014)
क्या बड़ों का सुझाव हमेशा सही होता है? || आचार्य प्रशांत, युवाओ के संग (2014)
6 min

प्रश्न: आचार्य जी, हमारे अभिभावक, हमारे बड़े, जो भी सुझाव देते हैं क्या वो हमेशा सही होते हैं?

आचार्य प्रशांत जी: मैं बड़ा हूँ तुमसे, हूँ न? मैं जो जवाब दूँगा, तुम्हें कैसे पता वो सही होगा?

यही प्रयोग कर लेते हैं। मैं भी तो बड़ा हूँ, जैसे दूसरे बड़े

बोधशिविर से फ़ायदा क्या है? || युवाओं के संग (2016)
बोधशिविर से फ़ायदा क्या है? || युवाओं के संग (2016)
10 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, बोध-शिविर से फ़ायदा क्या है?

आचार्य प्रशांत: आदमी, शरीर के ऊपर चढ़ी हुई समाज की परत है। जिसको अपना जन्म कहते हो, वो शरीर के साथ होता है। और फिर समाज उस पर एक परत और चढ़ा देता है। ये दोनों ही परतें तुम्हारा दुःख हैं। ये

कई बुद्ध पुरुषों ने समाज क्यों छोड़ा? || (2017)
कई बुद्ध पुरुषों ने समाज क्यों छोड़ा? || (2017)
6 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, बुद्ध पुरुषों ने जो बताया है समाज को, वह बहुत सरल है, लेकिन फिर भी इतना झूठ, इतना ड्रामा क्यों?

आचार्य प्रशांत: आप बताओ क्यों? कहीं बाहर से थोड़े ही टपक रहा है, रोज़ हम ही करते हैं। आप बताओ क्यों?

आप जिस वजह से करते हो,

दुनिया में इतने कम कबीर क्यों? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2017)
दुनिया में इतने कम कबीर क्यों? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2017)
7 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, दुनिया में इतने कम कबीर क्यों हुए हैं? मेरे परिवारजन मुझे इसी बात का उदाहरण देकर आध्यात्मिक मार्ग से विचलित करते हैं और खुद को भी दुनिया की ओर आकर्षित पाता हूँ, कृपया स्पष्ट करें।

आचार्य प्रशांत: करोड़ों कबीर हो जाते, पर हर कबीर के पास वैसा

आइ.आइ.टी, आइ.आइ.एम के बाद अध्यात्म क्यों? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2013)
आइ.आइ.टी, आइ.आइ.एम के बाद अध्यात्म क्यों? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2013)
18 min

प्रश्न: आपकी प्रोफाइल देखी है, आपने आई. आई. टी. दिल्ली से इंजीनियरिंग की है और उसके बाद आई. आई. एम्. अहमदाबाद । तो उसके हिसाब से आप अब्रॉड में इस समय बहुत मजे से ऐश कर सकते थे ।

(अट्टहास)

आपको किसी ने क्या प्रेरित किया, जो आज आप

आपके बच्चे आपकी सुनते क्यों नहीं? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2017)
आपके बच्चे आपकी सुनते क्यों नहीं? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2017)
21 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: पेरेंटिंग (परवरिश) को निपुणता से कैसे किया जाए? कभी-कभी हम चाहते भी हैं करना, पर हम कर नहीं पाते, क्योंकि बाहर की स्थितियाँ ऐसी होती हैं।

आचार्य प्रशांत: जो आपने बाहरी स्थितियों के बारे में कहा, वो बिलकुल ठीक है। लेकिन निष्कर्ष दूसरा भी हो सकता है। आप यूँ

Ideals and Intelligence
Ideals and Intelligence
8 min

Student: Sir, what is an Ideal?

Acharya Prashant: You tell me. What is Idealism?

S: It is a prescription by the society in regard to how we should be.

AP: For an idealism to exist there must be an ideal and for an ideal, there should be an idea. Let’s

Sir, why do you speak?
Sir, why do you speak?
4 min

Audience: Well, sir, you have been talking about radical change for the last 50 years, and obviously there is not any radical change in the world. My question to you, then, is why do you talk?

Krishnamurti: The gentleman asks, you have talked about fundamental change of human consciousness and

You are the personification of the only Real; why then must you chase an ideal? || Acharya Prashant (2015)
You are the personification of the only Real; why then must you chase an ideal? || Acharya Prashant (2015)
18 min

Questioner: Sir, it is also not incidental that man has, throughout history, connected other worldliness with Truth or God, I mean this is the way that things have been propounded, right, in all the religions, in all the images…

Speaker: Not really, are we saying that *Dattatrey*a is outside the

If a leader needs followers, he will never let them be free || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2014)
If a leader needs followers, he will never let them be free || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2014)
8 min

Question: Sir, you have said that a real leader does not need followers. I want to understand this.

Speaker: To understand this statement, you will have to go into the word need.

What is a need? When does one need something outside of himself?

Followers are people, other people.

When

बोध क्या है? || आचार्य प्रशांत, युवाओं के संग (2013)
बोध क्या है? || आचार्य प्रशांत, युवाओं के संग (2013)
4 min

प्रश्न: प्रश्न है, ‘जिसको हम बौद्धिक स्तर(इंटेलिजेंस कोशिएंट, आई.क्यू.) बोलते हैं वो अलग-अलग व्यक्तियों में अलग-अलग होता है, इस बात का क्या अर्थ है?’

वक्ता: शायद ये सवाल यहाँ से आ रहा है कि मैंने ‘इंटेलिजेंस’ शब्द का प्रयोग किया था| मैंने कहा था कि मूलतः तुम ‘इंटेलीजेंट’ हो, तो

Who is an honorable man?
Who is an honorable man?
3 min

Question: What is the definition of ‘an honorable man’? Is being honorable good or bad?

Speaker: सम्मान=सम्यक्+मान

सम्यक मानने का अर्थ है समझना ।

तो जो समझ सकता है, वो सम्माननीय। जो नासमझ है उसका कोई सम्मान नहीं।

तुम भी यदि किसी का सम्मान करना चाहो, तो उसे समझो। यही

To whom does the world belong?
To whom does the world belong?
1 min

3:45 am on a particular night: Just found Koham, Soham – the two pet dogs at office- romping merrily vigorously on the terrace. As I went to them they made all efforts to include this third one-an ‘outsider’ who keeps sitting inside- in ‘their’ sport, on ‘their’ playground.

To whom

The real leader does not need followers || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)
The real leader does not need followers || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)
4 min

Speaker: So, what is leadership?

Audience: The ability to lead others.

Speaker: Why must I be interested in leading somebody? Don’t I have my own life to live? Why must somebody be interested in following me? Doesn’t he have his own intelligence?

Listener: Sir, leadership is also taking initiative.

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हमारा मिजाज हमेशा दूसरों और परिस्थितियों पर निर्भर करता है। नतीजे आपकी उम्मीदों के मुताबिक नहीं रहे। इसलिए अब आपको मनोबल बढ़ाने वाले किसी प्रेरक वक्ता की ज़रूरत है। जैसे ही वह व्यक्ति चला जाता है, आपकी ऊर्जा भी थम जाती है। लेकिन जीने का एक और तरीका भी है। अपने भीतर गहराई में, मुझे एक ऐसा बिंदु मिलता है जिसे कोई बाहरी परिस्थिति छू नहीं सकती। जो कुछ भी होता है, वह सतह पर ही घटित होता है। वह स्थिर, उदासीन और तटस्थ बना रहता है। तब आप सचमुच स्वतंत्र होते हैं।
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Questioner(Q): What is the process of clarity? Is it just listening with immersion and no resistance? What is Truth? How we decide it?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Listening without effort, plus if there is Truth in what you hear, there is change and transformation, and that Truth becomes the master. We

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Questioner: A lot of students that I talk to — it’s the fear of the society, it’s the fear of the unknown, it’s fear of the expectations that they are carrying, that pushes them to become an engineer and then they figure out that probably this is not something that they wanted to be. And that is the reality of a lot of individuals and not just engineers. Probably, here is something that is stopping me from taking a plunge of starting something of myself, right? Fear is something that is stopping somebody who is in a relationship for ten years to take that step to get married. Where does this fear come from? Acharya Prashant: Lack of love, which comes from lack of self-knowledge. You see, when I tie my sense of existence, my very identity, to something that is unreliable, I will have to be afraid. It’s like putting my heart on this table. Now, how can I live in security? The heart is out there on the table, anybody can take it away, anything can happen to it. Or the heart might grow legs and walk away on its own. My very existence has been subjected to something that is not in my control. Something that is definitely going to deceive me at some point, that is fear. My sense of self-worth comes from my monies, my bank account, I will be afraid. That bank account can be closed anytime, anything can happen. My sense of self-worth comes from my physical appearance. I very well know, time will take it away, I will be afraid. Right? Who am I? I am the one who is praised or worshipped by the society. Oh! I will be so afraid, so afraid! You talked of people working for their images, they would be living a cursed life. Because, their heart is out there in the hands of strangers. Their entire identity is tied to their image and the image is in the eyes of other people. So, the image can be distorted or can disappear any moment. Just imagine, how afraid they would be all the time. That’s with the ego. Because, the ego, as I said, is a fundamental sense of incompleteness. Therefore, to complete itself, it just associates itself to anything possible. And the things that you are associating yourself with, they are not reliable. They belong to the world and the world can take them away. They belong to time. They came with time and with time all those things will disappear. And you have tied your identity to those things. Now how can you rest in peace? That’s fear. If you do not have self-knowledge, you will always be afraid. My identity is linked to my husband’s identity. Now the husband has two legs. And the husband has a brain, a mind of his own. If your identity comes from your husband’s name, as happens in India at least, you would always be afraid as a wife. The husband can change his mind any day. You would always be, you know, having one eye on his secretary, and the other eye in his email and mobile phone. What’s he getting into? Who’s texting him? Why is he on the phone so late in the night? Because you are afraid if husband goes away, what happens to you? Your very existence depends on the husband. That’s fear. When you operate from the ego centre and make something very, very important for yourself and that something belongs to the world, it can go away anytime, and you are afraid. And in that fear, there can never be love, never be love. If you are afraid of losing something, you will be very violent towards it. Nobody lets his money go and have a walk down the road. What do you do? You lock up your money. That’s violence. When something starts becoming very meaningful to you, you lock it up. You don’t want it to have freedom. And that’s violence. So, love and fear just cannot go together. If you are dependent on something or somebody, you will be afraid. And that dependence cannot be called love. And that is a confusion, we often get into it. Just because you depend on somebody and somebody depends on you, you start feeling as if it is love, it is not. Questioner: Just like the way political parties think that people love them but it actually is fear. Acharya Prashant: Exactly! Love is a rare quality and rarer in politics. Questioner: So, if I am interested in a particular profession, do I not pursue it wholeheartedly? Do I pursue it wholeheartedly knowing very well that the results can either be zero or one? Acharya Prashant: One has to go into the very nature of interest. Aren’t we interested in cricket? Aren’t we interested in seeing songs in movies? Practically, everybody in India is interested in cricket, nobody in Brazil is. And nobody in India is interested in ice hockey. So, that’s how flimsy the whole thing about interest is. In India, if you don’t get a movie with songs, you say, “I am disinterested.” The movie would bomb. In Hollywood, if you have a movie with songs, that would raise eyebrows, what’s going on? Occasionally, you have an OD song but typically there is no song. So, that is the nature of interest. It is never something of the heart. Love and interest are not the same thing. Interest is something that is given to you by your body, by your environment, by random chance, your circumstances and all these. So that’s how your interests come to you. So, if you are interested in a vocation, first of all, you have to ask yourself, “Just two years back, I was interested in something else and two years before I was interested in that and when I was four years old, I was interested in becoming a fighter pilot. What happened to all those interests?” Today, I smile at those things and just shrug them off, “I don’t want to be a fighter pilot.” What you want to be today? Oh! I want to be an investment banker. What happened to the fighter pilot? You were so interested in that. And how do you know, tomorrow you will not be looking at this I-banker, just the way today you are looking at the fighter pilot. The self of a five-year old appears so naïve and immature when you are twenty-five. How do you know that at thirty-five, you will not look back at this twenty-five year old self and say, “What the hell! How was I taking this fellow so seriously?” So, interest is something that you must look at with healthy contempt. Interest, mind you, can even be induced in you. Interest can be aroused in you. That’s what the entire advertising industry is about. They can make you feel Interested in things that is intrinsically worthless to you. So, of what value is this thing called interest? But, then in today’s world, we place so much premium on this word 'interest.' Do what interests you, this, that. Whereas, it is wisdom to realize that interest is the last thing that you should ever go after. Then people come up and say, “No, should we do things that we are not interested in? No.
If you are fond of playing the game of Love, then come over
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राधा-कृष्ण में भी तो प्रेम था, तो आप हमारे प्रेम को सम्मान क्यों नहीं देते?
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What is Dharma? - Bhagavad Gita
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Overview

Fighting Duryodhana is Dharma. Fight Duryodhana in the way you can, that is swadharma. Dharma is the same for everybody, but swadharma varies according to your physical, social, temporal conditions. But remember that swadharma can never be in contradiction of Dharma; swadharma will always be something