We say, “Oh yes, this thing is right, and it must be done, but…” If the thing is right and it must be done, from where has this split arrived? There is no need to split the action from the result of the action. Right action is its own fruit. Now you can rebel. If rebellion is the right thing to do, why bother about the result of rebelling?
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Questioner: It is said, “The one who is not able to incorporate the knowing in his doing is worse than the one who does not know at all.” Just wanted some clarification on this.
Acharya Prashant: You see, man has an active mind. Man has a mind driven by a so-called self-supporting ego. Man is the only creature in existence that feels that he is all by himself. That is why man faces the kind of worries and tensions that no other creature does. You feel greatly responsible for yourself; you feel as if your welfare and upkeep is all upon you.
The mind is small, and it cannot admit of anything immense, large, beyond itself. It is impossible for it; it is not even a matter of intention. It is just impossible. The cup cannot conceive of the ocean.
So, one has no Faith. The more active and self-supporting the mind becomes, the more faithless it becomes. The more you start living supported by, and according to your concepts, ideologies, inventions, constructs, social orders, the more insecure you become. You are wearing clothes manufactured by you. You are living in a building made by you. You are following an ideology made by yourself. Even the most intimate affairs of your life – cohabitation, mating, copulation, reproduction – are according to social orders and norms made by you.
