The Bhagavad Gita is not a separate spiritual path or an escape from everyday life - it is a mirror that reveals the truth of your present life. Real spirituality begins with self-observation, not rituals or temporary practices. Lasting transformation comes when work, relationships, career, and personal growth become one integrated life driven by awareness, love, and freedom rather than ego, fear, money, or social pressure.
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Questioner: Namaste, Acharya. I am Pradeep. I'm a fifth-year undergraduate from Niger. When I was going through one of the lowest phases of my life, at that time it was hopeless, and nothing seemed very fruitful. And so I got into spiritualism. By spiritualism, I mean I got into the Bhagavad Gita. So it helped me in a lot of ways. However, when my situation stabilized and I got a normal life, I started drifting away from spiritualism.
Apparently, even though I know that following spiritualism is transformative, still nowadays it is very hard for me to be on that path. Why is it so? Why is it too difficult to be honest with myself?
Acharya Prashant: The reason is self-evidence. What you call as normal, pop spirituality is essentially about remaining who you are but adopting some additional practice or additional path for the sake of some consolation or benefit, or recovery, like in your case, right?
So there is the track A, the track you have been on since long, and pop spirituality gives you another track to parallelly and simultaneously walk on. A continues. A doesn't stop. A is internal. A is more fundamental. A is egoic. A has been with you since very long. A is your preferred track. You remain on A. But you go to Babaji, and he says B. B is the track you must adopt. So you do adopt B, temporarily, provisionally, half-heartedly, incompletely. You do move to B while remaining on A.
