How to gain freedom from society? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Speaker: The question is, ‘personality, ego, individuality, freedom, all these surely have the society as the back drop. The relationship between the society and the individual is always questioned. How to secure my freedom from the society then?’

To how many of you is this question important, the relation between the individual and the society?

(Some listeners raise their hands).

Alright! Then this question belongs to many others as well.

Because we are conscious, we relate with each other, but unconscious things and material also relate to each other. For example, hydrogen relates to oxygen and you have water. Right? Iron is attracted to magnet. Even materials have some kind of relation with each other. What is the difference between a material relationship and a conscious relationship? Go into it.

In a material relationship, there is no understanding of what is going on. You are just a slave to your conditioning. Can the iron piece decide that it will not get attracted to the magnet? Can the iron piece decide that it will get attracted to the magnet? It is just happening. Neither the magnet knows, nor does the iron piece, that why does this relationship exist. Whereas, when the two conscious beings relate, they understand, their relationship comes out of this real understanding