I have been insisting continuously that consciousness, real consciousness is a choice. In a process, there is no choice. The fellow in front of you, how much of a choice does he have? If he has no choice, why get angry? And if he has choice, then the mark of having choice is that you will not choose wrongly. And then you will not get a reason to be angry at him. Had he really had a choice, he would have chosen rightly. And had chosen rightly, you would have found no reason to get mad at him.
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Questioner: Good evening sir. Sir, when we talk about the common consciousness and the way you were explaining it, is that also just the conditioning?
Acharya Prashant: See, material is conditioning. That which is a product of certain conditions is called material. Is there anything in prakiti that is not a product of its conditions? So what is conditioning? Conditioning is both a process and an output. Everything is conditioned. There is nothing that just shows up. Everything is a result of a process. That's called conditioning.
Questioner: So when we say that there is no difference between life and death in this way in prakriti. But can we still say that death is the end of the reaction?
Acharya Prashant: Change in reaction. But that reaction, that change is anyway always happening. You see, an iron piece experiences an attractive force towards a magnet. Right? The iron is at a distance of 1 m from the magnet. And the iron piece is drawn towards the magnet. And now it's at a distance of 0.5 m from the magnet. What happens to the attractive pull?
