Struggling to choose between a secure job and the path you actually feel drawn to? This isn't really a question about careers. It's about why other people's opinions have so much power over you in the first place. Real clarity doesn't come from finding the 'right' choice. It comes from honestly looking at your own fear, again and again, until it stops running the decision for you.
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Questioner: Pranam, Acharyaji. Uh, I'm Shashank Kashyap from Aatmaram Sanatana Dharma College, University of Delhi. And, uh, my question is, I have, like, a vision, um, about... I'm more inclined towards research and entrepreneurship-like stuffs. But whenever I discuss with people, they usually tell me that, um, you, uh, first seek for a job and get a job, get some money. And after that you can go for these things, because, uh, these are the things that involve risk. So, uh, in your video, uh, I have seen that you- you are telling that, uh, one needs clarity in life. So, uh, living in between these people who have a herd mentality, following, um, what rest of the people are doing. So in between these people, uh, how to get that clarity in life?
Acharya Prashant: See, clarity in the inner sense is attained by observing fog and haze. Mm-hmm. All that obfuscates your clarity is to be known. This is the process of attaining clarity. So if these people are around you, first of all, see they are around you, they are because they are within you. Otherwise, they couldn't have been around you. Right? People who discourage you or people who want you to be risk-averse.
People who want you to avoid obstacles and, uh, go for a pleasure-filled and easy, comfortable life. If they surround you from outside, it is because they occupy you from within. Mm-hmm. And they have to be observed, because observing them is in some way self-observation. When you observe these people outside of you, you are observing your face in their faces. Listen to their arguments. Their arguments are your own arguments against yourself. Their arguments couldn't have affected you had they not resonated with something inside of you. Right? So listen to what they are saying. See where they are coming from. See how their lives are, and then ask yourself, is that where I want to spend my life? Is that how I want to live? Because their arguments aren't in a vacuum.
