Ego is the centre of all positives and negatives || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2014)

Listener: Sir, it is said that chase positive energy. When I am with you, I always feel that positive energy. Why is it that we always need someone to be with us to have that positive energy? Can’t we have of this energy on our own and lead a happy life?

Speaker: Two things, one I believe that I am talking to an audience that have read the fundamentals of science. Energy is not a vector, it does not have any directions. How can it be positive or negative? What do you mean by positive energy? Energy is in Joules. Do you put minus or plus sign there? There is nothing called positive energy. That was the first part.

Second part was that we need someone, somebody outside ourselves that gives something to us to motivate, inspire. First of all don’t call it positive or negative. Positive and negative will always with the respect to the center. Have you seen a blank graph paper. Even on the graph paper when you declare a side to be positive or negative, there is nothing called positive and negative in it. Right? After a while something becomes positive and something becomes negative. Plus X, minus X. Plus Y, Minus Y.

Where do these positive and negative come from? How do they come? They come depending upon from where you have set an origin.Where you have set the center. Is that not so? In case of the mind, the center is always the ego. For each of us we are the center of the universe. For a dog, the dog is the center of the universe. For a woman, the woman is the center of the universe. For you, you are the center of the universe. You look at everything in your own context. That is the reason why what is highly positive for one, is deeply negative for the other.