Life will give you a 440-volt shock, embrace her. The moment you embrace, you will be thrown away. Embrace her again. Develop stamina. After a while, you discover this is what you have always wanted; this is your deepest longing. Remaining protected, covered, insulated, secured — that's not the way of life. Those who cannot bear pain will never know joy. It's in the depths of your pain that joy will emerge.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, Pranam. Deepest gratitude for your teachings. In the last three years, I've experienced a profound shift in the way I think and the way I live my life and yet when you say, 'Aren't we all committing suicide, it hits you like a 440-volt; what am I doing, how much more can I do, where am I stopped, what are my barriers?'
So my question is also about somewhat related to mental health but this is coming to me as I read your book on the Upanishads where you talk about the vṛtti, about tendency and a lot of your question answer sessions that I've listened to, about vṛtti.
So I'm a psychotherapist. I work with people who come from again a lot of victimhood and so in the initial stages, I'm empowering them to think for themselves and to take affirmative actions, to recognize what their patterns are and how those patterns got constructed.
But the basis is that I was born as a blank sheet and then the patterns got constructed based on the environments I lived in, the people I met and how I responded to them and now I'm reading now I wasn't a blank sheet.
