Enjoy your life before it melts: Gaur Gopal Das on JLF closing day

Lifestyle coach and motivational speaker Gaur Gopal Das shared life mantras with the audience on the last day of the Jaipur Literature Festival 2023 while unveiling his book Energize Your Mind. In conversation with Puneeta Roy, he told the audience to enjoy one’s life to the fullest before it wanes. 

“Once I am gone, nobody will ask how many social media followers I had. Nobody is going to pay attention to the likes or views you got. They would want to know the kind of person you were,” he said. With the melting ice cream analogy, he advised the audience to treat it like one. “You have an ice cream and you have a candle. The philosophy behind the candle is to give light to others before it melts. An ice cream is about enjoying your life, and a candle is about enlightening others. I don’t want to be a candle,” Das said 

He also advised his audience not to go by social media likes and compare their lives to that of others. “Nobody posts about their failures and weaknesses. So, don’t compare your life to theirs. Instead, get inspired and improve your life,” he said. He urged people not to connect their identity with social media.

In this book, Das decodes how the mind works. He combines his anecdotal style with analytical research to teach how to discipline the mind for greater well-being.