Questioner: Sir, as a law student, Every student has a concern about whether it is about environmental concerns, there is a lot of environmental pollution etc. Also, it is about poverty concern or corruption or any other social issue but then when we get out of college we get start ignoring the inner consciousness that tells us these concerns, and by social conditioning we are forced to earn in whatever ways or to have the children's and get married. So, what is the hope for us to keep on our mission and not get trapped by this?
Acharya Prashant: The way you have modeled the question is: we are good people inside the campus and we become bad people outside the campus, to put it very crudely. When in the campus, we are good people as students, and when we step out, we become bad people, and social conditioning takes over.
Son, why are you in campus in the first place? Is it not because of social conditioning? Will Social conditioning start operating only after you step out of the campus, or is it operating right now? Social conditioning is not only after the exit gate; it was before the entry gate. Else, you wouldn't have entered the Law College at all, and it is continuously there between the entry and the exit points, in your entire duration of three years, five years, eight years whatever it is.
It’s just that we do not realize that every single action of ours is a conditioned thing. That's the thing with conditioning; because you are conditioned, you will never know you are conditioned. So, even these thoughts come to you, they come to you because it is trendy to have these thoughts regarding the conservation of this, that, flora, fauna, environment, animal, and species. It's a cool thing to talk about these things in the campus.
