The authentic one can never be harmed because he lives freely and without dependence. If someone can inflate you with their words, they can also deflate you. By accepting your identity from someone else, you have needlessly made yourself a beggar. The authentic person does not want anything from any external being. He can have a relationship, but he’ll always be ready to leave. And that does not mean the relationship cannot have love. Love and desire are different things; desire means: I want to exploit; love is about giving without expectation.
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Questioner: Sir, acknowledging a fact internally as well as externally requires authenticity within a person. And I’ve read from your previous books that we should be an authentic person, as that leaves no room for fear and insecurity within us. But sir, it’s not always possible to be an authentic version of ourselves, because it’s sometimes not the best version or the best thing of ourselves that can be.
Acharya Prashant: How do you know?
Questioner: Sir, because I think a lot of us, authentically, a lot of us are kind people. I would say “nice” is a word I should refer to; which might end up making us get used by some people.
Acharya Prashant: No, no, no, I’m glad you asked this. What she’s saying is: the authentic self is probably a nice self, a good one. And what I have observed in this world; correct me where I go wrong; what she’s saying is, what I have observed in the world is that good guys finish last and the kind ones are exploited. Right?
