In the middle of conditioning, how do I get real freedom? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)

Question: Acharya Ji, every thing that we develop, comes from conditioning. How do I then find my real identity?

Acharya Prashant(AP): Pallavi (the questioner), had everything been coming from outside, then this question could not have arisen.

If everything comes from outside, then we are a system, like a machine. A machine never has the urge for self-enquiry. A machine will never feel uncomfortable, or befuddled at the fact that it does not know it’s true identity. In fact, the question of identity itself is not relevant to a machine.

So, what happens, yes we realise that a lot what constitutes our psyche comes from what we have read or heard, assimilated directly-indirectly, consciously-subconsciously; we realise that. And the more we realise, the more we become free of that which is just an external layer upon us.

How do I know? *Just by enquiring; just by seeing.***

And this ‘seeing’, is very simple, very straightforward.

“The environment is noisy, and I find it difficult to concentrate.”