‘My life, my rules’. Whose life? Whose rules? Even this phrase, ‘my life, my rules’ is not coming from your own life. Even this rule, that if it’s my life, it has to be my rules, even this rule is not your own. So, you are being ruled by someone else when you say ‘my rules’. Even in saying ‘my rules’, it is somebody else’s rules that you are following and you still remain a slave, a slave by another name.
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Questioner: Good evening, Sir, my name is Yashasvi Dwivedi. I’m currently pursuing chemical engineering. My question is, till what level it’s fair to say, ‘it’s my life, my rules’, and not going by social and generational norms to meet family’s expectations?
Acharya Prashant: You can say that till the final level, you can say that even in an absolute sense, provided it’s you who is authentically saying that. Often the rebellion we raise against the society is itself a social thing. Often the rebellion we pose to a society is itself very social and has social objectives.
See, it’s like this. This is the society, right? The hundred out of you, you are the society and I am the rebel, I am the great rebel. So, I rebel against you and I say, “You know, all of you have been stupid, from Newton till Einstein, all of you have been stupid, you know nothing. From Socrates till Sartre, all of you have been stupid, you know nothing, and I am the only original one. I am the only genuine one, I am the young rebel.” And so, I declare that I am not one of you and I am a renegade and I move over to this side here. I am not one of you and what do I do here? No, not just hide, I have one eye on...
