Fear of society is the importance of society || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Question: Sir, man lives in society. How can we cut-off from society?

Acharya Prashant: Who is that man? Are you afraid? Are you afraid of being cut-off from the society?

Listener 1: No, Sir.

AP: What you are calling as being cut-off from the society is an event. This event is important to you only if you are afraid of it, otherwise so much is happening. Do you talk about it? Being cut-off from the society, whatsoever it meant, is an event and that event is now being picked up by you. Why? Are you afraid? If not, then why are you talking about it?

Let that happen.

Society is not one thing. You create your own society. What do you think these hundred or thousand people that you know in your life, they are your society? There are millions of societies parallely running.

You think, just as we said a little while ago, that there is this finite space (pointing towards the room) and the mind thinks that this room is all there is.