Questioner: Acharya Ji, I am unable to concentrate on anything. For example, I easily get distracted while studying my Maths book and get attracted to playing online games. What should I do then?
Acharya Prashant: You see, two types of things attract us. One, where the attraction is tremendous, and the attraction is so tremendous that you get totally lost in the thing that attracts you, and you are left with no space or desire to inquire further. Now something really spectacular, something really eye-catching, something really interesting is attracting you. This attraction becomes so dominant on us that we do not even want to ask what that thing is, and why it is attracting us, and whether that thing really holds any importance in our life.
What the eyes see, becomes so heavy that it totally occupies the mind and the mind is then not free at all to ask any questions. You could even say that we become dumb. We become dumb, but it is a very pleasurable dumbness, because we are, as we say, enjoying that state of being attracted. The one who is getting attracted is totally lost in the thing that is attracting him and because he is totally, completely lost, therefore nothing is left of him to make an inquiry, to ask a question.
What question? “Why is this thing attracting me and whether it is really important for me? What would this give me after the initial period of attraction? Would I be left with anything substantial?” For five minutes, or let’s say five months, there would be a lot of pleasure. But what after these five minutes? What after these five minutes and what was before these five minutes? “What really happened, that this thing became so tremendous on me?”
