Questioner: So, do you teach any Sādhanā through which your disciples and followers can access this inner Witness through which they can constantly de-attach themselves from the world which they are experiencing.
Acharya Prashant: Know what you are doing currently, first of all, that’s what is needed. Anything begins when first of all one feels the need to begin it. Sādhanā etcetera makes sense only when there is an honest acknowledgement that one is not living rightly. If one is determined to keep declaring that I am already on the right path, there is no question of any Sādhanā. Even if it is suggested, and there are thousands of Sādhanās available in the spiritual market, even if it is suggested, it would just be another layer on the several pre-existing ones that constitute the inner self. Won’t make any difference.
So, the first thing is to acknowledge that life is not right. That one is afraid, one is jealous, one is insecure, one is looking all the time towards the future. And when one senses all these things and with honesty and courage acknowledges that such is the state of my life, then there is the possibility to drop the outer and inner things that make one miserable. Now the question of substitution arises, right? One sees that there is a lot in one’s existing patterns of life that does not deserve to exist. So, one says, “Fine, now I see I don’t need to live with this. But if not this, then what?”
That’s when one requires to find a great and higher purpose of life. That’s the Sādhanā. For Sādhanā, there has to be a Sādhya, a great purpose, something worth achieving. So, it starts with the process of negation. First of all, you negate the way you are already living, and once you have honestly accepted that the way you are living is not worth it, then you figure out a high, and higher, and even higher purpose to live for; that alone is
