Because we all carry identities wherever we go, from these identities come ready-made opinions, and these opinions never allow us to look at the truth. We have no understanding of who we are, and all over, self-knowledge is limited to these identities that have been handed over to us by the environment, by others, by parents, by society, by education, by others, and it’s a very funny situation. You are unable to know the reality because you are determined not to know the reality.
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Questioner: Acharya ji, How do we really know anybody?
Acharya Prashant: Charu, let's first see: How do we presently work? What is our way of knowing and relating to others, other individuals? How do we look at anybody? Pay attention to this: How do we look at anybody? Do we look at people as they are?
No. Our eyes are covered with a lot of filters. Filters of identity, of belief, of our own prejudices, of the opinions that we are already carrying about others, and with these eyes, do we look at others? Now, can looking be really possible if you already have an opinion about the other. It’s simple. Is it possible to really know the other person or the other situation or whatever? Is it possible to really know if your mind is already carrying an opinion about the other? It is impossible because if you strongly believe that you already know, then you can no longer know. If you believe that you already know, then it is impossible to really know, and that is the way we operate. We never really look at anything.
