No spiritual miracles suddenly happen || Acharya Prashant, in conversation (2022)

Questioner (Q): Yes, so just again we haven't been able to talk about this conversation prior to this, but I’m sure you got a sense of it. What we like to do in this conversation is keep it very transparent and conversational. But what we like to believe is different about our conversation is that we like to dig deeper into the mind of great personalities like yours. Where we are not just asking about your life journey or not asking merely about information, but it's really getting into the crux of the name of this podcast which is ‘The Philosophy of Now’. Which we like to interpret as a life mantra that one meditates upon in the present moment. Something that keeps you together, not necessarily in your past or future but in your every present moment. But before we get to that we believe that we want to get through a journey of questions and eventually get to that conclusive question.

Why don’t we start with a general question about really understanding yourself? Where did your spiritual journey start? If you had to pinpoint an event or a time in your life where it really hit you hard. We sometimes say, maybe it’s not as drastic say Gautam Buddha or certain life-changing events like that, but if you could recall something like that.

Acharya Prashant (AP): You see, this is a very popular notion that something happens that triggers the spiritual journey. This is coming from a concept that we assume to be the truth and the concept is that ‘Normal worldly material life is different from spiritual life,’ that these are two separate compartments, so there has to be a bridge between them, a link between them. And if there is a bridge then one can be questioned about the event and the day, the date when one crossed over and that’s where you’re probably coming from. So, if I were living only a material life; when exactly did I cross the bridge or when did I exactly begin thinking of crossing over, at least?