Defeat is not the end of war; defeat is not in the end of the war. Mostly defeat lies in the beginning of war. A needless war, the moment it begins, the point from where it begins is already a defeat. Read more.....
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Acharya Prashant: You are not identified with it. You know you’re just holding it and can drop it any moment. But if mistakenly, you forget that it is possible to drop the rat and that rat becomes a part of your identity, personality, then you will be in trouble.
Then you’ll keep holding the rat because it is now a part of your being. That’s what you have told yourself. Now you’ll keep holding the rat and make efforts to get rid of all that which comes with being associated with the dead rat.
Your efforts are fundamentally misplaced. You should have not proceeded with the efforts at all. In fact, by proceeding with your efforts you are only assuring yourself that your assumption about yourself had some substance.
You are trying so hard to cleanse yourself, to wash your face. You are scrubbing yourself all over the body. At this moment if someone comes and tells you that you are already neat and clean, you will feel like an idiot. It is now necessary to convince yourself that there’s something terribly filthy about you. That is how all your efforts would be justified.
