The ego does not need an entire purpose of life. It's so much in pain and so full of immediate distress that it's enough for it to pay attention to its immediate surroundings. And the most immediate to the ego is itself. So words like ultimate mean nothing to the ego. The ego is like a patient on a ventilator. That fellow is looking forward to the next hour. Will I see the next day? Will I survive the next hour? That's the ego so much in distress that even the next one hour is difficult to to predict or see through or navigate.
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Questioner: Namaskar. So,everything is dead and everything is basically molecules that are just in a default arrangement. So can we say that Prakriti has induced us into a falseness that there are these biological senses and these compulsions that we have of our emotions. So does observing these emotions and observing these compulsions and avoiding them; is that a first way to move towards being truly alive?
Acharya Prashant: Yes, observe them but without blaming Prakriti or anybody. Nobody has brought you to this condition. You wanted to exist, therefore you gave yourself a condition. Anything that exists; exists in some condition, right? So you want to exist. So sometimes you give yourself a good condition, sometimes a bad condition. Just observe. Yes. The entire purpose of life is to just observe and then not be swayed away by it.
The ego does not need an entire purpose of life. It's so much in pain and so full of immediate distress that it's enough for it to pay attention to its immediate surroundings. And the most immediate to the ego is itself. So words like ultimate mean nothing to the ego. The ego is like a patient on a ventilator. If you talk about life after 10 years to somebody who is on a ventilator, assuming that he is able to talk, it's quite meaningless. That fellow is looking forward to the next hour. Will I see the next day? Will I survive the next hour? That's the ego so much in distress that even the next 1 hour is difficult to to predict or see through or navigate.
