Questioner: There is some image of something and you are not conscious, where then there is that blocked energy, so to speak? Fear or whatever it is, you act out of reaction. So, what would be… at the moment there is no choice, you are just reacting. What would be the way to respond? You could say ideally, but how do we do it, here, now?
Acharya Prashant: It’s a very good question. Given that we are all conditioned beings, given that we have blocked energy. And stuff that is lying suppressed in the mind. What is the way to respond? Life continuously presents situations that appear as challenges, right? How to respond?
Let’s say, I indeed do suggest a way to respond. What would the way immediately become? You say that you are conditioned hence you cannot respond fully, and the response becomes limited, stunted, narrow, and constrained. Yes? So, you are saying ‘What hence, is a better way to respond?’ Right?
Now, let’s say, I do come up with a way, ostensibly a better way to respond. Immediately, that way would become…
Questioner: Conditioned.
Acharya Prashant: Conditioned. Right? Do you see this?




