If you close your eyes and write, do you need to see what you have written? Observation is an honest acknowledgement: “This is what I’m writing.” It is a subtle thing of honesty that happens on its own. What obstructs it is your determination, your stubborn resolve not to see the inner fact. That’s what you have to dispense with. “I refuse to buy the arguments of the false.” Once you refuse that, then the inner fact is obviously visible.
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Questioner: Thank you, Acharya Ji. My question is on observation. When we observe ourselves, my observation has been changing. I have been listening to you since last year. It was different. I was also listening to Krishnamurti. The observation, when we do observe, there is a joy or happiness that comes from within. So, should we say that as happiness or actual joy? Krishnamurti also says that when you fully, intensely observe yourself with the full power of your mind, something happens within. So, is that the joy that is coming from within? I just wanted to clarify that.
Acharya Prashant: Joy is not really an experience. Joy is not something you can really identify as joy, put your finger on, and label it as joy. Just as observation, real observation is a passive thing, joy is equally passive. Happiness is sensational. It is a spike. It aims to make itself felt.
Joy is like a soothing song, mother’s lori. It is not real if you are still listening to it. The mother sings so that you go to...
