Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, I am seeking peace, and for me, peace is important. But, I always find myself in many other choices. Why does it happen?
Acharya Prashant (AP): Once you have said that peace is important for you, the choice has already been made. The question is: Do you always say that peace is the utmost? Here you are starting from already an absolutely perfect point; is that the point you usually start from? When you are in the market and in the mall and at a wedding, is that the choice you have made тАЬPeace is the utmost and I shall have peace at any costтАЭ? That is not a choice you make very often. First of all, make that choice, and after that, even this much of a story wonтАЩt be needed. Once that choice is made, then the one you have chosen takes care of you; but first of all, make that choice. Here you are narrating a story as if the choice is certain, as if you are already and always choosing Truth and peace, is that so? Is that the fact of our life? Make the right choice and after that, you wonтАЩt need a narrative.
Q: Acharya Ji, if I am not making that choice, it is because тАУ while I have read and understood that this peace is infinitely superior than other ways, I understood that academically, but I donтАЩt have experience, but this looks more tangible to me.
AP: ItтАЩs very simple, knowledge comes only till the guest room of your house. There can be no intimacy there. You can have a bit of an introduction, you may know the demographics and all the superficial details about someone, but the very fact that you have stopped the person at the drawing-room means that no real union is going to happen. Knowledge is not a thing of the heart and knowledge implies distrust if you see. Otherwise, why would you barricade someone from getting into the interiors of your house? Why would you say, тАЬHere, right at the entrance is your placeтАЭ? ThatтАЩs knowledge.
