See how you support your problems || Acharya Prashant (2017)
Question: Over years I have travelled to places, met people, done things, and developed a certain kind of personality due to the influences, is it possible to reverse this?
Acharya Prashant: I don’t really know how to look at it. You are using the word ‘reversal’, but don’t you want to progress through this reversal? Are you not intending your betterment through this reversal? The question is,”How do I reverse the whole process of conditioning that has taken place since birth?”
Ostensibly, the word is ‘reversal’, but what is the intention? The intention is that of a forward movement, right? We want to make a forward movement, we want to be better, to improve. Don’t we? The only thing is, this time the improvement is taking the shape of something called ‘reversal’. If behind this reversal, the intention is to improve, how is it any different from the entire thing that has been happening over the last 20, 40 years?
You see, you have acquired certain habits, patterns, tendencies. Did you acquire them in the hope of degrading yourself? What was the intention?
L: Betterment
AP: Is it not the same intention at work, even now? Then, you wanted to be better, so you acquired. Now you want to be better, so you want to de-acquire. Then you wanted to be better so you said that the step I am taking shall be called ‘getting in’. Now you want to be better so you are saying that the step I am going to take shall be called ‘getting out’. Yes of course, the words have changed. The words have gone to the other end of the diagonal in meaning. Has the intention changed? What is the intention, still?
