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Just watched this scene again. For the Nth time. Tyler Durden. The one everyone quotes but nobody actually hears. Nah, not even me.

For those who don’t know, this monologue is from the movie Fight Club. Tyler says we have no great war, no great depression. Our war is SPIRITUAL. And every time I hear it, it cuts deeper ,, cos it's not about some guy in a movie. It's about us. Yeah you & me. Right now.

Look at our day. Alarm, commute, desk, screens, deadlines, doomscroll, sleep. Repeat. Nobody put a gun to our head. No draft, no famine, no enemy at the border. We chose it. Then we built a hundred escapes…Netflix, shopping, food, gossip, ambition, "settling down”.. so we'd never have to sit with what we chose.

The job isn't the problem. The money isn't the problem. The noise isn't the problem either. The problem is we've never once sat alone in silence and looked at our own life straight. Not because we can't. Because we won't. That's not being lost. That's hiding. That’s utter dishonesty.

And we know it.

I was reading Acharya Prashant's latest article titled Janmashtami: The idol, the Gita, and the mirror in The Pioneer, today.

Growing up, I was told stories of how "spirits" of Gods resided in idols made of metal or stone, established at the heart of the temple and people queued up for hours (sometimes days) just to be able to get a glimpse of the idol.

The mass belief being that the spirit residing in the idol would bless the worshippers and those blessings would then help in fulfilling the desires of the worshippers.

Idols of Gods and Goddesses made of earthly materials such as wood and stone and metal, seek to be pleased by men and women and their children.

Once pleased with your worship, with your devotion, with your prayers, the deity would grant you your wish.

Among all of them, Shri Krishna is a favorite of many because he's been portrayed in a myriad of ways, stories of his childhood mischiefs, his romantic relationships and his heroic endeavors enchanting many a people.

While stories of his favorite foods as a child or speculations about his romantic life are in no short supply, Shri Krishna who recited the Gita to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra isn't the most popular among the masses.

While pictures and idols of Shri Krishna as a baby and a toddler or with Radha will be found in most temples inside of Indian households, the highest that Shri Krishna had to offer to all of humanity, Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, isn't always present alongside those posters and idols.

"Keeping a physical copy of Mahabharat in homes can break up families" being cited as the most common superstition behind the decision.

If it wasn't for Acharya Prashant, I along with billions of others would have remained in the dark and could have never learnt what is actually said in Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, what Shri Krishna actually stands for, why idols were created and what purpose idol worship actually serves.

Hint: to act as a mirror. :)

If you're curious about any of the topics above, I highly recommend you read the article yourself and feel free to share your reflections in the comments below. :)

Die ersten Staffeln habe ich leider verpasst.

It was through Acharya Prashant that I could finally learn the real meaning behind the couplets, verses and hymns of Kabir Saheb.

It was through the live Sant Sarita sessions I learnt that Kabir Saheb was the first vegan activist!

The only saint to have spoken against the animal abuse and sacrifice, specially in the name of religion.

I was appalled to learn how all students (including myself) were taught such skewed, butchered and absolutely wrong interpretations of his words during our schooling days, unfortunately the practice still continues even today.

It is such a shame, given how Kabir Saheb gave his entire life to bring the highest to the masses, making wisdom literature accessible to the common folks in the language they spoke and understood, in the language of the daily bread and cloth and water and soil...

A lot of folks specially in India find Philosophy to be too dry and somewhat of a rich man's hobby, if that is you or someone you know then I can highly recommend AP's video lectures (with beautifully sung songs!) specially on Kabir Saheb. Oh and for avid readers, you have this beautiful book as well. :)

Do you have a favorite couplet, verse or hymn of Kabir Saheb'd which AP's video lectures opened up for you?

We don't ever see people or living being or things as they are, do we?

We see them through multiple colored and cracked and old lenses which were imposed on us, which we were forced to wear, which we in our ignorance decided to wear... from the moment we are born to this very second.

How ridiculous would we look going out into the world with multiple pairs of glasses all stacked one on top of the other over our eyes.

Could we actually even be able to see anything at all?

No.

We will keep stumbling and falling.

But isn't that what we actually do in our real lives?

Only that these lenses aren't gross and visible on our faces.

We have been indoctrinated to see people, living beings, things as a means to an end, as objects for our consumption,

as objects for fulfillment of our desires,

as objects we are entitled to use however and whenever we desire.

And the result of the blind consumption is a suffering on the personal level, a broken world made up of suffering individuals, mass destruction propagated by suffering individuals, climate change we are living in the middle of today.

Mass based education of the self as explained by Acharya ji is needed so that you and I as individuals can learn to see all living breathing beings and all objects in nature clearly. Without thinking of them as things to be used to fulfill desires which weren't even ours to begin with.

Actual act of Dharma today would be to save the Himalayas, not to scale them, not to climb them, not to simply remain an onlooker as they are being actively destroyed due to climate change, which is brought upon by human beings' actions.

This short clip was taken from the Q&A portion of the Live Gita session which took place on 27th August 2026.

Acharya Prashant emphasized again, as he has been doing since the last 2 decades that Climate Change cannot be solved merely at the level of technological advancements and policy making.

Climate change doesn't adhere to international borders, the emissions due to the consumption levels of those in the Western world, have been and are continuing to cause catastorphies in South Asian countries like Nepal and India.

Mass based education of the self is deaperately needed.

If you and I don't understand why we keep consuming mindlessly without pausing to see where the desire to consume even comes from and why despite so much consumption (material goods, relationships, progress in career...) the feeling of inner emptiness never goes away, any solutions we come up with are bound to fail.

My name isn't my own, somebody else gave it to me,

My body isn't my own, somebody else gave birth to it,

My religion isn't my own, someone else assigned it to me, if I could choose, I only got to choose from options somebody else created before my birth...

My gender isn’t my own, someone else assigned it to me at birth,

My personality isn’t my own, it's a mish mash of borrowed and imposed ideas from every single person I have crossed paths with,

My likes and dislikes aren't my own, I was conditioned to admire or to abhor based on appearances,

Then there's happenstance... things, events, people that just happened to me... that continue to happen to me...

The things I have hoarded, I did not build,

The things I use, I have not created,

The things I call mine, aren't mine at all,

I've piled on myself that, which was never mine to carry in the first place...

Whatever I have, whatever I interact with, came from this Universe, will go back into this Universe...

I'm merely soil that has taken form for just a little while...

Why was I not taught this during my schooling?

If nothing is truly ever mine and if nothing is truly ever yours,

If we came from the same place and we'll go back to the same place, as soil and as stardust, what are you and I fighting over?

https://acharyaprashant.org/en/articles/body-secrets-1\_9ee2959

I love painting butterflies:)

When I first came across these illustrations by Marion Fayolle, I was immediately awestruck.

While I thought I understood the visual poetry at the time, several layers opened up after I revisited these illustrations years later, this time, after having listened to Acharya Prashant's video lectures on love and relationships.

The illusions we live in...

The cages we choose to stay in...

The fences we bound ourselves by...

The strings we tie others with...

The invisible barter system running our relationships...

The hidden violence in our claims of love...

How do you interpret these images?

What do they bring up for you?

While we all understand overthinking as a concept, how many of us really understand why we do it?

In our day to day lives, we have accepted and surrendered to being troubled by overthinking. It is no longer just a coping mechanism but almost like disease (that does handicap us) that we have learnt to live with.

From Acharya Prashant I've recently learnt that thought is merely a neuronal activity but the thinker of the thought, the ego, you and I, that is, rides and steers thought.

Thoughts don't always just come and go on their own everytime...

"Thought freed from the ego's grip is simply intelligence: the body-brain processing reality without a false centre demanding that reality serve its story. The problem is never thought; it is always the ego that rides thought."

I felt a sense of lightness after learning that it is something that I don't have to necessarily fight or overcome or stop but observe... I, my ego, am the thinker of the thought, the thoughts I have, the thoughts I think, the thoughts I engage with and entertain repeatedly... serve a purpose for me. The ego and the stories the ego has weaved about itself.

This has been a great starting point for me to relieve myself of what felt like a life long curse!

What are your "thoughts" on it? ;)

For anyone who's curious: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/ap-framework

Link to the full article: https://x.com/TheDailyPioneer/status/2091047766286008622

Is GenZ really all that different from all the people belonging to the generations born before them?

Or is GenZ nerely repeating the same patterns under different packaging?

Has GenZ truly been liberated from the fear and superstitions they grew up watching their parents and grandparents living with or do they live with the same fears and superstitions, the only difference is that now, instead of elaborate rituals, they cope using a 5-6 inch screen in their hands?

Read the whole article to gain a perspective no one is willing to offer you. One that comes from a teacher and philosopher who has spent several decades of his life standing right by the side of millions of young adults, answering the questions they battle with. Questions no one is willing to answer honestly for them. Holding their hands and showing them the way, leading by example.

Quote from the article linked above:

"You have been cheated, yes, but not in the way the slogans say. The exam leaks and the rest are the small cheating. The big cheating is that in all your years of education, nobody ever turned your attention toward the one doing all the wanting, the fearing, the scrolling, and nobody told you that this one is a bundle of borrowed things, and that there is a way to look at that bundle and be free of it. That education was your birthright, and it was withheld. Go get it. It does not require a college, a movement, or a generation. It requires one honest person, and you are allowed to be the first one you meet."

Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/FeuVUPR4G\_Y?is=TBpCvtV9x-WZPlVL

In a historical event, Philospher Acharya Prashant brings Ishavasya Upanishad to the Oxford University in the UK nearly 150 years after their first translation in English was presented by Friedrich Max Müller back in 1879.

While the concept of ego is vaguely understood and brought up in our day to day conversations, how well do we all actually understand the mechanisms of the ego, how it came into existence, how it drives our day to day decisions?

How many of our thoughts and feelings and words leaving our mouths and actions being performed by our bodies, actually our own?

Take a step back, is any of it, of our own making and our own choosing, really?

Acharya Prashant has spent decades uncovering the same and bringing forth his observations after years of interacting with and teaching people from all walks of life. Wisdom literature from all over the world is now accessible to the masses. :)

Watch the video (instead of any thriller or mystery watch you might have otherwise planned today) to find out who is the puppeteer running the show from behind the curtains!

Book: Truth Without Apology by Acharya Prashant.

This book is both a best friend and a therapist in one. :)

All 180 chapters are incredibly effective in helping the reader address their situation as it is, like a mirror being held. Depending on where you are at in your life, you will surely find something that will resonate with you in every aspect of life. :)

While other self help books give you a 2-5-10 step plan to overcome your issues, Truth Without Apology on the other hand takes you to the very root cause, within yourself, so you can clearly see what it is, that's causing issues in your life in the first place.

In a world where in the name of self love we are sold products as solutions and pushed to overconsumption, this chapter tells you, you don't need to form any further external dependencies. Self love isn't self lies.

Curious to know, what was your concept of self love before reading this and other books of Acharya Prashant?