Don't be so patient || Acharya Prashant, at Goa University (2022)
Questioner (Q): How do we know what is useful for us if we are in ignorance? How we can decide if maybe that movie, which we don’t like, and we should give up because we think that will actually benefit us? So, maybe there is a point of we are sitting there and finishing the movie, which we don’t know. Maybe to teach patience, for example.
Acharya Prashant (AP): Right, but for how many times? How long and how many times do you want to just keep tolerating in your life in the name of patience? Do you want to keep falling into the same hole 40,000 times in the name of patience?
Q: If we need, yes.
AP: No. What do you mean by ‘need’? What if it is a state of internal hypocrisy? See, it’s totally subjective. You have to decide for yourself, whether you are still experimenting, or whether the hole has become a habit.
Q: But there is a process for that also, maybe there is a need for 40,000 times to repeat the same thing.
AP: The process has to be subjected to the constraints of the lifetime of the individual. Whatsoever your process, your goal is to be liberated as soon as possible within the normal 80 years of your existence. You can not have the process of experimentation that lasts 8000 years. You don’t have that kind of time.
