Question: How do I explore my passion?
Speaker: I am sure this question is relevant to many others if not everybody. First of all this question has to be asked on a clean slate. Those of us who have already believed some external passion to be the real passion, they are not eligible to ask this question. Are you getting this? When you ask this question you are standing at a point where you do not know your real passion. Right? You are confused. You have come to know that whatever is known to you can be doubted. What to do with those who live in a deep belief that they already know their passion, or a belief that knowing that passion is not important at all?
If today you are given a question that mentions your hobbies, interest or passion. I am using all these three in the same way right now, but they are not. If you were given this question to mention all these three things, all of you will give some answer without realizing the falseness of that passion, without realizing that this passion has nothing to do with me. Even my passions have been handed over to me by somebody else.
Look at the CVs of your seniors, those who are in fourth year. They all have a section in their CVs named ‘Hobbies and Interests’. What do they write in that section? Playing cricket and listening to Hindi movie songs. And they deeply believe in that. Don’t you see that if you are born in India, you would write cricket, and if you are born in Brazil, you would write football? Even your passions come from outside. Is there anything in life which is yours, fundamentally yours, which you found out to be yours? Your passion is borrowed, your love is borrowed, and so you are confused.
