What you are demanding is something absolutely extraordinary. You are demanding freedom from body identification, and there is no way basic acts of goodness towards the world, can fetch you freedom from the fundamental bondage itself. Please be grateful. The equation is not deceiving you. To the extent you are doing good things, life is rewarding you with goodness. So, the game is fair there. But what you are demanding from life is far beyond the goodness you are practicing. You are demanding liberation itself.
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Questioner: Namaskar, sir. Sir, worldly things are everywhere. Whatever we see or think about, the thought process is all worldly. So, I feel like I am creating my own world through this thought process. When it comes to what you are saying; that living without death and all that, in that also I feel like that too is just a thought process that I name some things differently, and I name other things differently.
So, I keep thinking on this, and it becomes very exhausting. There is no clear clarity in my head regarding this. And, actually, in the last four-five months, I have been suddenly hospitalized for different reasons and also there is this physical discomfort which overpowers you sometimes. It does not do mentally, but on a physical level, it is very tiring, it overpowers me. So, this also affects the thought process. Even small things like temperature, physical sufferings, it overpowers you, and this concept of the thought process feels like it is just present in the thought.
Acharya Prashant: If the entire process remains as it always has been, the results cannot be too different. There is a reason why the inner thing becomes the way it currently is, right? An entire terrain of experiences over the last several decades brought it to its current position. That’s what the ego is made of, right? Experience after experience, result after result, one belief upon the other conviction, an array of conclusions validating one’s own concepts. And this leading to a sense of confidence in the way one has been. All that gets together to convert one into the one, one currently is.
