Suffering and courage || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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Suffering and courage || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, as you said that the realization, the understanding, or seeing, frees us as a spontaneous action. How does it arise? Whatever I understand through my thinking, analysis, knowledge, I understand a bit. But that understanding does not free me of my habits.

So, my question is: How is ‘my understanding’ different from ‘the understanding’ that you are talking about? Is it also born out of knowledge?

Acharya Prashant (AP): It is born out of suffering.

There is no other transformative force.

You do not need to transform if you are not suffering. If you are already alright, do you need to change? So, all Spirituality springs from there.

Wisdom, and Realization, and Understanding are needed because man is not alright.

So you have to come face-to-face with the fact of your inner disquiet.

And that requires courage.

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