Acharya Prashant: Māyā is only as powerful as you want it to be.
You are not being puppeted by Māyā; Māyā depends totally on you for her sustenance. If you ever find her dominating you, you must know that this is what you have wanted.
Never forget your essential reality beyond your immediate fact. You are really all-powerful, though that is not testified by the way you live, eat, breathe, act, decide, think. We live lives of helpless compulsiveness. Looking at the way we exist, it becomes impossible to believe that we are omnipotent, but that indeed is our essential reality, which means we really can never be puppets; which means whatever is happening to us is with our due consent. Unless you acknowledge this, there can be no remembrance of your true Self. If you will remain insistent that you are struggling, defeated, limited, forced, then your belief will become your false destiny.
Spirituality consists of no instrument for your welfare other than your own realization. Does spirituality involve the use of muscles or machines? Even the use of intellect is useful only till a point in the spiritual process. Finally, the only instrument that helps and works is your acknowledgment, your own power.
The fellow is sitting in the car on the driver’s seat having pulled the handbrake with the maximum power he can, and he is begging all and sundry to push the car from behind. So, one fellow comes and he is asked, “Sir, who are you?”
