Live with your loneliness, live with your disgust || (2016)

Questioner (Q): Can one be lonely even while being immersed?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Yes, of course. See, it is not a question of ‘Can one be or not?’, Whatever is there, is there. It is there, now, live with it; acknowledge it. Live with it without hoping for a change and then, let change happen if it has to.

Neither ask for it nor block it. Live with it without resentment, without resistance.

Q: But there is a disgust associated with that.

AP: Live with that disgust.

Disgust may be there but it is not mandatory upon you to be disgusted by the disgust.

It is not merely a wordplay, what I am saying is something real, experiential. Let the disgust be there, ‘Of course, the disgust is there, and it’s alright’.