Acharya Prashant: Man is both Prakriti and something else. Prakriti is y=sin(x). You are confined within duality- ups and downs, ups and downs, leading to nothing. The up will not remain up, forever; the down will not remain down, forever. Crests and troughs, crests and troughs; that is Prakriti.
In a state of endless movement: day and night, summer and winter, dry and wet, here and there, yesterday and tomorrow. That is y=sin(x). Man is usually just Prakriti. So, his life too remains confined within the limits of that curve. A lot seems to be happening, nothing really happens. The curve of life seems to be going up, going up, going up, and then it comes down. Goes down, goes down, and then, there is a great apprehension that it will go down into some kind of an endless pit, and then suddenly there is a revival, and there is a celebration. "Yeaaah...!"
The curve has taken some inflection. So, instead of going forever down, what does the curve do?
“Celebration, celebration, the economy has revived.” And now it goes up. And then what happens? Now as it is going up and your hopes are soaring, suddenly tragedy strikes and the curve takes again a downward turn. And you remain interested, it’s all so gripping. You are never allowed to lose interest because always something is happening, something is changing. Either hope beckons you, or tragedy threatens you. But all in all, what is happening? Nothing. You are not allowed to rise beyond a point. Worse still, you are not even allowed to fall beyond a point.
Life just keeps moving, moving, moving, like this, like this, like this (indicating a sinusoidal wave). Do you see this? Now this will keep happening because you are identified with the body. Even to ask this question, there has to be a body.
