Peace is your destiny, everybody's destiny but that destiny is a timeless destiny. You do not reach there after ten years, you are there right now. And because you are there right now, hence this drama of not being there can continue endlessly.
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Questioner: Like suppose, if I am a normal guy working somewhere. If I say, ‘I don't have any questions, I don’t have any goal’; I don’t know where to go. I am not aware what is my desire, I don’t know what I am seeking.
Acharya Prashant: Is it a matter of merely saying?
Questioner: Acceptance is not there. It is ‘Are you mad or what?’
Acharya Prashant: Is it matter of merely saying? Does one really have no desires? Is it just about saying a few nice things? Hmm? Does one really have no desires? One has desires. One has conclusions. One also has ideas and ideals about where to go, what to do. In fact, one has very firm convictions. One starts from there, one does not start from an idealistic position. One starts from that which one is experiencing, that which one takes to be his immediate reality.
So I have desires, I have hopes, fears. I have all of these, I start from there. I see, what do I do to get rid of all these? I see, how I try to satiate them. And I also see, what comes out of all that? And then upon honest observation if it flashes, if one realizes that I really do not know; then that is an honest statement. Then that is not a mere verbalization, then it has some authenticity to it, purity to it. But it has to firstly come from a very real, a very detached observation. One has to see that attachments are there, insecurities are there, wants are there, hopes are there, pleasures are there.
