The ego seeks security from the world and even when it comes to the truth, it still wants to somehow uphold its security. It is all right if one wants to guarantee one's security against the world. But when it comes to truth and beauty, that's when one should just drop the defenses. It is all right to be immersed. It is all right even to be drowned. It is all right even to die. What is the point in conserving something that is anyway imperfect?
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Questioner: I've been watching you a lot these days. I've been binge watching you. Like on Netflix, YouTube videos, all the sessions Both Pratyusha, Vedant Samita and my husband was even joking the other day about how in our childhood our parents used to play Astha channel, you keep him playing in the background these days.
And I know it's because I want to gain that knowledge, we all have problems in life and your videos provide comfort to me. But at the same time, I don't want to make you my entertainment. That just feels wrong. The objective should be gaining the knowledge, applying it in my life, making it better and maybe someday making, you know, other lives better by using that.
So, how do I strike this balance between my mind enjoying this too much and reveling in it versus actually sitting down in a disciplined environment and learning from it? I feel as if I'm addicted to you. I don't want that.
Acharya Prashant: It's a delicate thing. It's a. I'll share with you how it's been with me whenever I have found the right company over the last four decades, comprising of the time, I have been conscious enough to understand something. Whenever I have found something right, something nice, something beautiful, something auspicious, I have never cared for any kind of balance. In fact, I have totally allowed myself to be drowned, to drench, to sink, to fall. I have not bothered to retain any kind of control of myself.
