Acharya Prashant: What is the fact of life? How do you react to your own sweat? Have you seen how one reacts when one is sweating? The trickle can be quite unnerving. Have you seen the aggression with which one often wipes out his sweat? The aggression, the frustration, the resistance. Have you seen how you take a bath? You’ve seen how you splash water upon yourself? Have you seen how you react when your car does not behave properly, or your wife's?
These are all the telltale signs of hidden frustration. A kid comes to you and touches you from behind, and you want to concentrate on something. The first time, you smile at him. The second time, you gently remove his hand. The third time, you just remove his hand. And the fourth time, the volcano bursts. The pretense cannot last long. Social happiness makes way for the fact of frustration.
See that you are frustrated, and that will bring true peace. There is nothing more frustrating than hiding frustration. That’s a double humiliation, do you see? First of all, you have been slapped by frustration, and then you have to smile because you do not dare to admit that you have been slapped. Who can really be joyful under this double humiliation?
Acceptance of frustration is not a furtherance of frustration; it is a very passive acceptance. Acceptance of frustration does not mean that you actively start promoting frustration. I do not know whether that word exists in the human dictionary, but God is the only anti-frustratant.
Truth is the only thing that can really relieve you from frustration. Do you know what the word frustration means? Frustration means a disappointment of desire. There can be no frustration without desire. You want something, but it does not materialize; this situation is called frustration. Unless your deepest desire is met, life will be frustrating.
