My concern is the way we are. My concern is the face of the human being. My concern is the little sparrow. I'm not here to tell people what God has said. I'm here to take care of the sparrow. That's my concern. And the sparrow cannot be taken care of unless we go to the Gita. Hence, the Gita.
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Questioner: When you talk about teaching through scriptures, Upanishads, and from our holy book of Bhagavad Gita, I mean, what was it that you saw, that you understood, which was different? Which was more, I mean, inclined toward the spiritual side and again towards the leadership side also?
Acharya Prashant: Inwardly, I'm quite stubborn. Externally, I might yield, you know, for a while or something or retreat, but inwardly, I find it very difficult to lie to myself. If there is something that I see as unjust, I cannot lie to myself and say, "Well, you know, just forget it, unsee it, let it be, carry on with your own business." I cannot do that.
I had seen very conclusively that things are not fair, that people are suffering. This was quite clear. I could also see that we are very wicked people, stupid people, who continue to inflict nonsense on themselves. So, on one hand, I commiserated with the lot of mankind. On the other hand, I was quite angry at what we do to ourselves.
The misery is self-inflicted. So, I couldn't, I just couldn't tell myself that all is hunky-dory and you just, just carry on with life as everybody does. I had to fight it out. It was a matter of inner dignity. You can lie to the world—how do you lie to yourself? How do you lie to yourself? So, I was continuously seeing that there's something that, there's a lot that needs to be done.
