Questioner: Acharya Ji, a good discussion happened yesterday in which many seekers participated and shared their understanding of Prakṛiti, Puruṣha and other things.
During the discussion, it was put that Prakṛiti, Puruṣha, Māyā, are mere concepts and that one is pure Ātman, never threatened and never disturbed. So, the question that remains is, are anger and violence also mere concepts of the mind? Is ego, too, merely a concept of the mind?
Acharya Prashant: The son is lazy, Tāmasik and he's sleeping in the closed room even when the sun is overhead. He has become accustomed to the boundaries and his laziness does not let him get up and move out. So, the father comes in. The father says, “Outside, son, there is a divine metaphysical mango. You would have never seen anything like it.
Let alone having tasted something like it. And that mango gives a joy that cannot be described and has a colour that cannot be seen, a fragrance that is beyond experience.”
That is the only way remaining for the father to somehow make the son, the lazy, clumsy son, move out of the boundaries. It is the only way left available to make him somehow quit the bed — a great flowery tempting description. So, the son gets up, goes out for a while, comes back and says, “I have eaten the mango and it is indeed juicy and divinely tasting”. The son says so and crashes on the bed again. Now, he's not only asleep, he is the divine eater of the blessed and rare mango who is asleep.
