Why do we enjoy being with 'nature' (Prakriti)? || Acharya Prashant (2019)
Question: When I sit in open Sky, I see the vastness, and the vastness feels like Freedom to me. It gives me lot of calmness and peace. The cool breeze, the rains, the Sun, these elements of physical nature give a lot of peace.
These elements of nature, especially the wind, the Sky, is there more to it? Or is it just that the senses are being pleased? Do they have more significance?
Acharya Prashant Ji: Culture hurts. Prakriti (nature) has no culture, no civilisation.
Our culture, our civilisation hurts.
The social conditioning that envelops the brain hurts, therefore it is a soothing experience to go to a waterfall, or to a jungle, or to hills. Or to enjoy the rains, or to look at the Sky.
It just tells us that animals are better off than us.
No animal enjoys it when he somehow just strays into the city, but man really enjoys it if he gets to live in the jungle. Animals sometime crossover into the city. Don’t they? How do they feel then? “What the hell! Send me back to where I came from.” But man spends a lot of money to somehow get a week to spend in the jungle.
