Practice means incremental improvement, daily improvement, moment-to-moment improvement. That's what we started this session with. Step by step you have to move — even towards the absolute. No one step can take you to the absolute. Not even a million steps can take you to the absolute. But still, there is no way except the million steps.
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Questioner: The next question comes from a student from Finland, who has been associated with Upanishad Samagam for quite a long time. The question is: Is there any place for consciously practicing indifference towards the world even when it still has meaning to you, or would that just be dishonesty?
Acharya Prashant: No, this is something quite advisable. Practice is very, very important, and all practice involves discomfort. All practice involves pushing your boundaries, all practice involves testing your limits and negating them. So the world, yes, will continue to exercise its charm over you, and you'll have to consciously negate it, deny it.
And that's not always a pretty thing to behold. It is obvious that you are in a struggle. But then, there's no other way. There's no other way. Conscious practice of anything is good — rather, the only possible way.
From the worldly point, the life of the spiritual man is not a pretty sight to behold, because there is a constant strife there.
