It is not experience that helps, but your openness to total experience || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Acharya Prashant: Experience is something that ‘you’ call as experience, right? Okay, we’ll go into it as it is happening here, please stay with me.

I am speaking to the group. So, you’ll say you have had an experience. This, right here, is an experience, is it not? What is happening since the last one hour, is it an experience or not? It is an experience? You have had an experience?

Listener 1: Yes.

AP: Yes. You too have had an experience? (asking another listener)

L2: Yes.

AP: Yes. You all have had an experience. If all of you write down your experience, would you all write down the same thing? So, is ‘experience’ something objective? So, that means that there is nothing called ‘experience’; it is only ‘you’. Please understand: If experience is what ‘you’ are, then how can experience give something additional to you?

Please understand: If experience is what ‘you’ are, then how can experience give something additional to you?