Acharya Prashant: Our story is that somebody says, ‘Hey! looking gorgeous today’. And we work up such a nice mood. And somebody says, ‘Hey! Where did you get this haircut from? Take two rupees from me, get a better haircut’. And we feel as if we have been put in some sewer.
Our mood is always dependent on others and situations, always. And is such a deep slavery. Anybody can come and spoil my mood and even to correct my mood, I need some external help—I need to watch a movie, I need to some kind of music, I need to talk to my best friend, I at least need to sleep to correct my mood—and this is such a deep slavery.
Anybody can spoil your mood. What kind of an individual are you? So easily you get hurt. Have you no inner locus of control? Talking on the phone, somebody says something and she starts crying on the phone itself. Probably she thinks just as you have voice transfer and image transfer, you also have tear transfer. What kind of an individual are you? Somebody says something to you on the phone and you start crying.
You are so down. Results have not being up to your expectations and we have so many expectations. Right? We live in expectation so now you require a moral booster, some motivating speaker. Now, a motivational speaker says and he perform all kinds of antics—this, that, ‘Come on, move the mountain. Dig a 20 km deep hole’. And you feel, ‘Yes, lot of energy. I can do it’. The moment that fellow is gone, all your energy also goes away. The greatly energetic mood which was there, vanishes; gone!
This is our typical moodiness. Our moodiness is just our deep dependency, deep slavery. But there is another way of living. Want to know about that? That is, when whatever is happening, is happening only on the surface. Deep within myself, I find a point that no external situation can touch. A very deep, silent and composed point.
