Acharya Prashant (AP): Spontaneity and continuity are our nature, so they occur to us naturally. Fear impedes spontaneity and there cannot be fear unless you have lazily convinced yourself that you are dependent or set to lose much. It is a false conviction. It can occur to you only in lazy belief. If you can be a little more agile, if you can get up and move a little, if you can venture into those areas of your psyche that you take for granted and therefore casually ignore, then you will get a chance to re-examine your beliefs. Even before re-examination will come a knowledge of your beliefs.
We all operate through very subconscious beliefs. We act without knowing what the foundation, the fundamental driver or the very motive of the action is. We just act and because we have been acting like that since quite long, so we assume that the action is in place, that the action must be right, proper, etc. We do not know where our actions come from. We do not know where our thoughts come from. And without knowing, we take them as acceptable. We even give them the status of Truth.
You feel like rushing to a place, an impulse arises. You don't ask yourself from where is the impulse arising. What you see is that the same impulse has been present in you since long and that the world around you also appears governed by the same impulse. So, very lazily, you grant that impulse. Very lazily you allow yourself to be carried away by that impulse. A little activity is needed.
As I had said earlier, there is too much flab on the mind. It needs to be melt, cut down. You need to move. You need to ask questions. You need to ask uncomfortable questions. You need to ask new questions. You need to ask questions that others may not appear to be asking themselves. But if you are not asking those questions, then you will remain a prisoner to dead habit. And dead habit does not include spontaneity.
