Questioner (Q): What method is now needed to come to the Source?
Acharya Prashant (AP): We have already used many methods. The methods have already taken us far from the Source. That is why you are asking this question that what method is now needed to come to the Source.
The same thing that took you away from the Source will not bring you back to the Source. You are told that you are incomplete so you need education to become respectable and lovable. That was a method. Now, knowledge is not just knowledge. Knowledge is wonderful and beautiful if it is just knowledge. But when knowledge becomes a means for inner-fulfillment, then knowledge is a disease, is a method. It’s a method.
If knowledge was just to earn your bread, then knowledge is alright, but when knowledge is there to earn your identity, then knowledge is poisonous. Do you understand the difference between these two?
Mankind does need knowledge. Knowledge is needed so that you can have all this. It’s alright. Some of it is good. It facilitates. So in that sense, knowledge is alright. But when knowledge becomes your backbone - how do I express it - when knowledge becomes your foundation, your essence, then there is a very deep problem.
Do not ask for a method. Whatever we have been doing so far is a method. All methods have only given us more despondency. Now just see that methods will not work, that you do not need a method to get to the Source. It is alright. Just relax. That’s all.
