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Shri Prashant On www.prashantadvait.com www.advait.org.in Excerpts from the article: Motivation is slavery
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Shri Prashant On

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Excerpts from the article: Motivation is slavery

What brings us to Motivation?

• Firstly

We must believe that we can motivate someone.

• Secondly

For a real and permanent effect to take place that motivation should turn into habit.

Two intrinsic beliefs…

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Motivation is slavery

What Is Motivation?

All motivation is EXTERNAL.

That is, something is acting upon you and making you react in a certain

way.

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Motivation is slavery

What Does Motivation Mean?

An external

force.

An external stimulus.

An externalagency.

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Motivation is slavery

External Agency

If motivation can come from outside, motivation will disappear when that

outside disappears.

Example: You read a book, and get motivated, the book is

external.

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Motivation is slavery

All these externals come and go, motivation also comes and

goes. Not only that, one external factor comes and

motivates you in one direction, and other factor comes and

motivates in another direction.

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Motivation is slavery

A Great DistractionAll the externals are pulling you towards

themselves, pulling you in directions that they determine. Now that is no way of living. That is

no way of living a conscious life.

THIS IS A GREAT DISTRACTION.

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Motivation is slavery

Life Remains

Confused

Insipid

Directionless

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Motivation is slavery

Why A Slave?Pulled in different directions by different

motivators, these external agencies that act

upon your life and you remain a slave.

So if one element of motivation is slavery,

what will you say about making a

HABIT OF BEING MOTIVATED

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Motivation is slavery

What Is A Habit?

Anything that you do as per the routine, anything for which you don’t have to think, which just

happens in a pre-programmed way…

IS HABIT

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Motivation is slavery

Does Habit Require Intelligence?

‘NO’

I SAY

There is no intelligence required in that and

you want to be habitually motivated.

‘I am habituated to something’

It happens on its own, very mechanically.

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Motivation is slavery

Real Actions Does Not Come

From Motivation.

An energetic, youthful action does not come from motivation.

It does not depend upon EXTERNALAGENGY.

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Motivation is slavery

The external agency can at best take you back to yourself, it cannot motivate you.

And there is the light of your ownunderstanding you decide upon the action, even

the word ‘DECISION’ is not accurate, action just happens.

In your intelligence action takes place.

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Motivation is slavery

Where does real action comes from?

It comes from understandingand intelligence.

Has spontaneity to it.

Has inwardness to it

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Motivation is slavery

Moment-To-Moment

Moment-to-momentLIFE IS

HABIT IS

You respond intelligently to each moment.NO HABIT IS A GOOD HABIT.

• Roll over• A carry over from

the past

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Motivation is slavery

A False One

The difference between GOODHABIT and BAD HABIT IS

FALSE ONE.

DO NOT LOOK FOR HABIT,

LOOK FOR INTELLIGENCE.

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Motivation is slavery

What does HABIT mean?

I am not fully

conscious.

I am not deciding.

I am acting in a pre-

programmed way.

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Motivation is slavery

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Motivation is slavery

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