I am here not to provide you answers || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Question: Sir, do you support not to compromise at all?

Speaker: Somebody tells you to compromise, another one tells you not to compromise. Where are you in all of these? You are still being ‘told’. What is common between these two statements?

Listener 1: What if we decide individually?

Speaker: Yes. It is like saying, ‘As an individual I decide to give up my freedom.’ You are the first one who raised this question that mind and self are different. The mind is a slave, you are not a slave. You are the first one who understood, the mind and you are different. Now the mind is of course enslaved. But are you a slave? You are not a slave. Hence all these decision about the mind asking for slavery can be just mind’s own decision. Let the mind be a slave. You can never be a slave even if you want to. Hence, there would be a lot of suffering. The mind would remain slave, and your nature is freedom. Hence, there will be conflict, confusions, suffering and sorrow.

Listener 2: Sir, what about the question? Do you support not to compromise?

Speaker: How does it matter what I support? I am here not to give you my opinions, I have said that earlier. I am here just to create an environment in which you can find out things for yourself; related to your life.