How to know whether a person is fake or real? || Acharya Prashant (2014)
Questioner: How can we judge whether the nature of a person is coming from the core, or whether he is just maintaining the gloss?
Acharya Prashant: That’s how we live. How do we know whether what we are seeing is fake or real? Can I put the question this way?
Q : Yes, Sir.
AP : She is asking, “how do I know whether what I am seeing is fake or real? *I come across a person, how do I know whether what I am seeing is the authentic face, or just a mask?*’
That’s what she is asking. Look at the question. Look carefully at the question. The question is asking everything about the object that is being seen. She is asking, ‘*Sir, how do I judge the other person?*’ But the question is totally silent on the ‘seer’.
She is not asking, ‘*Sir, tell me something about me?*’ She’s saying, ‘*I am what I am, I go somewhere, I look at a person, how do I judge that person?*’
How can you judge anything if your eyes are closed?
