If life is not loveless, would you still talk of liberation? || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Questioner (Q): After listening to you it appears that the purpose of the world is Joy and fun. And Joy is coming from silence. And Silence would have been there even when we were not there. If Joy or Fun are our natural states then why this universe does exist? Why did somebody create all this? What was he thinking?

Acharya Prashant (AP): The question here, for those who will not comprehend Hindi, is that “If Joy and Fun are our natural states then why does this universe exist? Why did somebody create all this? What was he thinking?” I do not know what he was thinking but I am sure that if you go into this you will be set thinking and that will take away your peace.

We are not here to talk of mighty things. In a way of theory I can take this up, in fact, I have taken this up not less than a hundred times previously not less than five or ten or twenty videos addressing this. You would have put up my name on YouTube. I could recycle their contents here right now but I don’t want to do that. I want to ask you, has this question really meaning for you? Do you live in this question? Is this question in any case, in any way related to your daily living?

Life is what you do minute-by-minute, second-by-second, hour-by-hour. Minute-by-minute do you think why did God created the Earth or the Universe? Minute-by-minute you are taken over by questions of ambition, hope, worry, security, love, lust, achievement, fear, desperation, respectability – these are the things that really matter to us. In fact, even when we talk of God we talk of some big entity, a fatherly figure, a respectable one, a creator, and an all-powerful one. Do you see then that authority, security, respectability, bigness – this is what really matters to us? Let us rather ask questions which are very-very ordinary, I assure you that it is in the ordinary questions of one’s daily life that both the problem and the solution lie.