Liberation Seems Distant, Gratification Seems Easier. What to Do?
One has to come to a certain purposelessness with respect to what one has always been doing. And when one comes to that purposelessness, that’s now like being with a clean slate. One does not like the words futility. So something within us just silently conspires from inside. So there is futility but then in that futility some meaning will be found. And that’s a conspiracy. There is purposelessness but some meaning will be attached to the word purposeless and that defeats the whole thing.
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Questioner: Namaskar Acharya ji, I am very appreciative of you. In the last year my spiritual development has been greatly enhanced, listening to you. But still I have been a seeker for many years and still the challenge comes. You talked about how to step out of addiction, is that you replace it with something bigger, something profound. And I have been a seeker so I guess that seems like the ultimate thing that one can hope for you is the Mukti.
But the problem comes when it’s time for decision-making, at the point of decision-making and there are hundreds of those points through a day, through a year. What happens is that the promise of Mukti is speculative, it is distant, it is abstract, whereas this samosa in front of me is gratifying, tangible, immediately in front of me, rewards are there. After a bunch of times, saying, 'Okay, no, this is not where I want to go, I want to, you know...
And even the question that you have mentioned that 'Ask who is it that wants the samosa that also sometimes seems so important.' It is like, you try to do the inquiry, you know, you try to do the manthan, but nothing comes out because that thing is abstract. You know, like you said, it’s not even an experience; its beyond our understanding.
