Questioner: In the middle of a storm with the agony of not getting what I want, I can get out of the mind only by holding on to your videos and writings. Rest comes again only to be swept away in the next moment. It feels like an impossibility to crack this nut.
Acharya Prashant: See, existence love nuts. That is why you have such a great diversity of them everywhere. We have a prolific variety of nuts here in India, in Asia; your place, the Netherlands, there are other kinds of nuts. There's nothing wrong with being a nut. Now, decide what really makes you restless — the nut-ness or the resistance to nut-ness?
Who taught us that we must be sane, civilized, cultivated, polished, good-looking, manicured? If the mind swings this way and that way and sometimes both ways concurrently, let it do that. Why else are we born? What is the point in living? Do you want to live a safe, protected life like a drawing room, bookshelf? Furniture pieces last as long as human beings do, sometimes even longer and there is nothing insane or wild or uncooked about them. They are so precise, so courteous. They never really lose their moorings.
If you are going through agony, keep going through it. If you are going through darkness, keep going through. And not with the hope that darkness will end. This is what we are born into. Stay with it. I am not even asking you to tolerate it or accept it. I am saying this is it. This is the world. It is not the world that displeases us. It is the idea that we have of our ideal world. The seesaw is all right, the swing is all right, the roller coaster is all right. They are not even all right, they are all that there is.
