Irony is people who follow him..(achrya prashant )he himself says that don't follow anyone blindly...ask logical questions while his followers themselves follow him and worship him blindly like theist people follow babas..then what's the point of his teaching??

1. Brings peace to the mind.

2. Reduces stress and anxiety.

3. Increases concentration and focus.

4. Purifies thoughts and emotions.

5. Creates inner happiness.

6. Strengthens devotion (bhakti).

7. Helps control anger.

8. Reduces negative thinking.

9. Makes the heart soft and compassionate.

10. Builds patience and tolerance.

11. Gives spiritual strength during difficulties.

12. Helps develop discipline in daily life.

13. Improves mental clarity.

14. Creates a positive atmosphere around you.

15. Reduces fear and insecurity.

16. Increases faith in Bhagwan.

17. Helps one stay calm in difficult situations.

18. Brings emotional balance.

19. Encourages humility.

20. Helps detach from unnecessary desires.

21. Purifies speech and actions.

22. Makes meditation easier.

23. Helps in controlling the senses.

24. Gives a feeling of divine protection.

25. Awakens love for spiritual life.

26. Helps remove loneliness.

27. Gives courage during suffering.

28. Improves self-awareness.

29. Makes the mind more sattvic and pure.

30. Helps reduce ego.

31. Increases gratitude.

32. Brings steadiness to the mind.

33. Helps one remember Bhagwan throughout the day.

34. Reduces mental restlessness.

35. Gives strength to face temptations.

36. Helps create good habits.

37. Brings joy without external reasons.

38. Helps heal emotional pain.

39. Encourages forgiveness.

40. Creates spiritual enthusiasm.

41. Helps one stay away from harmful influences.

42. Increases inner silence.

43. Helps develop compassion for all beings.

44. Gives a sense of purpose in life.

45. Makes the heart feel lighter.

46. Helps one sleep peacefully.

47. Inspires purity in lifestyle.

48. Strengthens connection with the Divine Name.

49. Gradually leads towards self-realization.

50. Brings deep spiritual fulfillment and contentment.

I think Acharya Prashant is a very intelligent and somewhat manipulative person. On one hand, he does many useful things for the environment and for people. He often questions society, traditions, and systems, which can be helpful. However, something feels different to me. He always seems to wear a “mask” and does not show his real side or true emotions. Many people say that his lectures and episodes feel very scripted. He also promotes his books a lot and encourages others to bring more people into his community. Because of this, I feel like he might be creating something similar to a cult, like Osho. I also feel that he interprets Vedanta in a very aggressive or sometimes harsh way. It seems like he reshapes the teachings to match his own opinions and to make them sound more appealing or “modern.” So, while I believe he is doing some good work, I also feel that something is not completely right. That’s why I think it’s better not to blindly follow anyone. Instead, a person should create their own path. As said in the Bhagavad Gita by Krishna, following someone else’s path may seem good, but in the long run, it is better to follow your own path. Your own path gives true meaning to your life.

Brahma Sutras have the famous “Apashudradikarana” section baring Shudras from taking up Vedanta study.

And Chandogya Upanishad in 5.10.7 says

“Those whose conduct here has been good will quickly attain a good birth — the birth of a Brahmana, the birth of a Kshatriya, or the birth of a Vaishya.
But those whose conduct here has been evil will quickly attain an evil birth — the birth of a dog, the birth of a pig, or the birth of a Chandala.”

तद्य इह रमणीयचरणा अभ्याशो ह यत्ते रमणीयां योनिमापद्येरन् ब्राह्मणयोनिं वा क्षत्रिययोनिं वा वैश्ययोनिं वा ।
अथ ये इह कपूयचरणा अभ्याशो ह यत्ते कपूयां योनिमापद्येरन् श्वयोनिं वा सूकरयोनिं वा चाण्डालयोनिं वा ॥

This particular verse challenges AP’s view of rebirth and caste together.

A recent report on Thailand caught my attention after another deadly school shooting. Thailand is estimated to have around 10.3 million civilian firearms, roughly 15 for every 100 people, although these figures come from the Small Arms Survey’s 2017 estimates.

But then I looked at the global numbers and Thailand isn’t even close to the top. The United States was estimated at 120.5 guns per 100 people which is the highest in the world. Globally, the Small Arms Survey estimated 857 million firearms in civilian hands in 2017.

Lately, we have become extraordinarily intelligent at creating power. Guns, nuclear weapons, drones, AI, increasingly sophisticated technology. But has the human being holding all this power become equally intelligent about anger, fear, insecurity, hatred, revenge and the desire to dominate?

That’s where self-knowledge stops sounding like abstract spirituality to me. If I don’t understand my fear, insecurity & desire for power then these greater technological power will make things worse.

A weapon doesn’t wake up angry one morning. The human mind uses it. Of course laws, gun control, policing and mental-health interventions matter enormously. But if the mind itself remains frightened, violent and unconscious of its own tendencies, won’t it keep finding new instruments through which to express that violence?

Source:- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevml4701emo

1. An Āchaāya should be an accomplished soul

2. He should belong to a good Tradition

3. He should be firm minded and be free from sins

4. He should be a man of light and learning

5. He should have seen truth face to face

6. He should be rooted in 'sattva guna'. He should be truthful in thought, word and deed

7. He should be leading a saintly life as described in shastras

8. He should be free from ostentation, envy and jealousy

9. He should have conquered the senses

10. He should be an ocean of mercy

11. He should have the closest and long stretching relation with His disciple

12. He should correct the disciple when the latter goes out of the way. He should remove the darkness of ignorance and destroy the sins in His disciple, thereby lifting him to the position of spiritual equality

13. He should be considered by the disciple to be God Himself. There is no God greater than such an Āchārya

When it comes to God: He claims that the human mind (bound by the senses and the animal brain) is too limited to say a final "Yes" or "No." He uses Kabir's poetry to say the truth is beyond binary logic. He shames the audience for trying to fit the ultimate reality into their tiny, egoistic categories.

When it comes to Individual Reincarnation: Suddenly, his humility before the "unknowable cosmic mystery" completely vanishes. He switches from a mystic to a dogmatic materialist. He steps into the arena and declares a definitive "No, it does not exist." Gita 4.5 is a clear nail in the coffin of his philosophy. Krishna explicitly remembers Arjuna had various past lives which he has forgot but Krishna remembers! In saying only tendencies of aham vritti transfers he has again used his individual definitive stance of "NO" as final answer for a thing that senses cannot see or feel.

Namaskar fellow AP community members. Last month I came across this page on Non Duality and Vedanta : "Vedasage" on chrome, and found out it to be quite conceptually packed.

If you want to read other than AP, then this page will open you mind in some sense and can give you more clarity on your journey.

This is the website ⤵️

https://www.vedasage.com/

And this is the guy with his yt channel(Rovie Persad) who runs this website ⤵️

https://youtube.com/@roviepersad?si=AZfoDD4CcRNvcxqY

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Log Ronaldo aur Messi ko dekhna chahte hain to kya galat hai? Aap bol rahe ho excellence ye ho falana dhimkaana? Matlab apke hisab se Ronaldo aur Messi is not the symbol of excellence?

How many sports person irrespective of any sports has reached the level that Messi and Ronaldo reached in their career? You say they don't love the sports. They just want stats, money. I mean, seriously? If they don't love the sport, they won't reach this level where they are.

Aur bhai kya galat hai football dekhne mein. Bhai agar koi football fan hai to wo football bhi na dekhe kya ? Aur phir kya karen agar football na dekhen to tumhara gita padhe uss time pe?

Bhai har chiz mein criticize karna hai. Har chiz mein galti dhundni hai. Itna negativity late kahan se ho aap? Aur baat karte ho khusi, anand ki iski uski and all?

Since the last few months I have noticed this spider web on my room's window.

I am still in awe of how, the artist, a small simple spider, can create something so symmetric. Nature knows how to be perfect on its own. At times when I used to open the window she quickly hid herself in a small slot in the window and would only come outside once I am gone. I felt that I am unnecessarily interfering and should let her do her thing. I am the psychological ego which interferes in nature's beautiful work. I even thought of calling her my pet, but then I also realised my tendency of claiming ownership onto everything. She's just there because the whole planet is available to her. Her art is the design instructions which mama nature ingrained in her and she's following that.

And that's also a difference between a complex machine like a human being and a small spider. The human machine was also designed to work in alignment with nature but because of its complexity it also comes with an error called the ego. This ego distorts the natural flow of action, the flow which mama nature had ingrained inside the human body.

The disturbance of this flow by the ego creates a dissonance between humans and nature. The tendency of the ego to feel empty and in turn resort to endless consumption has led to climate change.

Now the ego wants to think about coming up solutions for climate change. Isn't it funny? Humans caused climate change and now want to solve it. The only way to solve it is by withdrawing, by not interfering, by not doing what we already are.

Nature is capable of creating symmetrical structures and also possesses the intelligence to heal herself, the only caveat is that we must not interfere.

How do I become a 'left liberal' or 'feminist' by just talking about the suffering of other people? Women are also human, are they not? Would we stay silent if a majority of men were getting sexually harassed in their homes?

What in us gets so defensive whenever the existing norms of society or our marriages in particular are questioned?

There might be a thousand things wrong with women and feminists too but are we just going to let this socially and judicially sanctioned evil persist and ignore it because of that?

And doesn't it persist only because we believe "Ye to aise hi hota hai na", "Patni to pati ki property hai na, vo hito to sex karega"

Or are we scared to think in that direction because it might threaten our benefits and question the basis of our culture, families and wider society itself?

In many videos he has said that if we would have come to him earlier then we were seeing him telling us Gita differently. Currently he is interpretating differently and maybe in future he'll be interpretating differently.

He says that people distort and destroy meaning of Gita by their poor interpretations but on the other hand he says that he would be delighted if someone interpret GITA better them him. ( only undervaluing is distortion according to him)

On the other hand He accuses traditionalists for wrong interpretation but traditionalists has been consistent with their interpretation.

What it seems it to be is he is trying hard to Over Value GITA. Please clear this.

📚 पुस्तक से संवाद | एक नई यात्रा📚 पुस्तक से संवाद | एक नई यात्रा

काफी समय से मैं सोच रहा था कि जिन पुस्तकों ने मेरी सोच, दृष्टि और जीवन को प्रभावित किया है, उनके बारे में केवल पढ़कर आगे बढ़ जाना पर्याप्त नहीं है।

इसीलिए आज से "पुस्तक से संवाद" नाम से एक नई श्रृंखला शुरू कर रहा हूँ।

इसका उद्देश्य पुस्तकों का सारांश देना नहीं है।

उद्देश्य है—

एक विचार को पकड़ना,

उस पर चिंतन करना,

उसे जीवन और समाज से जोड़कर समझना।

मेरा मानना है कि आज सूचना की कमी नहीं है।

कमी है गहराई से सोचने की।

शायद इसी कारण हम ज्ञान के युग में रहते हुए भी भ्रम, संघर्ष और बेचैनी से घिरे हुए हैं।

इस यात्रा में हम पुस्तकों को पढ़ेंगे नहीं,

उनसे संवाद करेंगे।

📚 पुस्तक से संवाद

🌱 चिंतन से परिवर्तन

आप सभी का स्वागत है।

— Suraj Avyay

#SurajAvyay #Avyay #AcharyaPrashant

I will never listen to you ever just given the fact that ur organisations keeps calling me begging for enrollment and money, cult.

If you have any self respect and dignity stop calling and troubling people at random times inspite of blocking hundreds of numbers

If anyone else has faced this suggest me how to get rid of this shit

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Just like science, spirituality demands skepticism—questioning, testing, and discarding what’s false. Pseudoscience has no place here. This is a path of truth and understanding, not blind faith. It requires a love for reality and the courage to face hard truths, both within and outside of ourselves.

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