Freedom is your nature but you have forgotten it || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Questioner: Sir, you say that we have to see things, we have to analyze and see that the mind is over us, we have to take decisions on our own, but in real world, it will not help us. In our college itself, teachers want to make us do something, but in our inner-selves we don’t want to do that, and if we don’t do that, then we are reprimanded.

Speaker: I will expand and rephrase the question. What Sarthak is trying to say is, that awareness is painful. Do you see this? It’s just convenient to remain dumb and keep following what the system tells us, what the society tells us, what education tells us. The moment we open our eyes, there is the hand of the big brother to put us down. There is some external force wanting to suppress our voice. Right, Sarthak? That’s what we are doing.

Listener 1: In our inner-self, we don’t want to be suppressed. We want to be happy about what we are doing.

Speaker: No one wants to be suppressed, you see. It’s our nature to be free.