You can never stop. As long as you are alive, the flow of action will continue. So, there’s no stopping as far as the limbs are concerned, as far as the mind is concerned. Till the last moment your body will be functional, your mind will be functional. Stopping can occur only in an inner sense. Your inner self is continuously moving to attain a certain contentment and when that is attained, wandering across the landscape of misery will stop.
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Questioner: How to know when I am done and there’s no desire left. Our dissatisfaction can lead us to a different and new desire. So, what’s the correct time? How can we know when to stop?
Acharya Prashant: No, no, you can never stop. As long as you are alive, the flow of action will continue. So, there’s no stopping as far as the limbs are concerned, as far as the mind is concerned. Till the last moment your body will be functional, your mind will be functional. Stopping can occur only in an inner sense. Your inner self is continuously moving to attain a certain contentment.
When you go to the root of your inner discontentment, you find something. That which you find is called contentment. But that contentment is found only when you are courageous enough to not only face your discontentment but actually penetrate it. Penetrate your discontentment and see what you get. It’ll not be as per your definitions but what you get, that you can call contentment. Not the contentment of your dreams, not the contentment that you have so far experienced in life. It will be something different. Whatever it is, call it contentment, provided you have honestly penetrated your discontentment.
