Questioner 1 (Q1): Acharya Ji, Pranam. There are certain and similar objects that occupy my mind every day. However much I try to get rid of them, they still linger. How should I get rid of them? Please help.
Acharya Prashant (AP): They are just occupying a void. That void should be the rightful preserve of something higher. That higher thing does not exist, so the little objects are all profiting from that absence. Bring something higher into your life, fill that void up, and all the petty objects will find no place to occupy. That's the only method possible, let me tell you.
The mind's logic is, ‘Having a bad object is better than having no object.’ So, if you do not give it the right object, it will select a bad object. You just cannot say, “I’ll go neither for this nor for that. I don't want to opt for a bad life, but I also won't opt for a spiritual life.” If you don't opt for a spiritual life, you have automatically enrolled for a bad life. If you want to get rid of bad life, you will have to go for a spiritual life. There is no middle way or third way.
Q2: Acharya Ji, I quickly get mentally and physically exhausted from my work, and run towards entertainment. The work that I have chosen is correct and worthy, but still, I run towards entertainment. Kindly help.
AP: The work might be correct, but you are taking it as just some kind of enforced duty. Otherwise, either the mind will not need entertainment or the mind will find work itself quite entertaining.
