Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, what is the most important lesson in Spiritual Wisdom? How to understand the mind of a commoner? How to understand a Spiritual mind? How to understand a scientific mind? What are the challenges faced in the Spiritual journey?
Acharya Prashant (AP): One of the key lessons in spiritual wisdom тАУ is to keep imagination apart from facts, is to not take your тАШpersonal worldтАЩ, as тАШtheтАЩ world.
It is already bad enough that we take тАШthe factual worldтАЩ, тАШthe worldтАЩ to be real. And it would become far worse if we start taking even our тАШpersonal worldтАЩ, тАШthe imaginary worldтАЩ to be real.
The mark of the commoner is тАУ he lives in his personal world and attributes to it the finality of Truth.
The mark of the scientist is that he does not live in his world, he does not care about subjective interpretations of the world, he lives fully in facts. So his Science is fully objective and does not contain a trace of personal subjectivity. The scientist is obviously an advancement over the common psyche.
And then the mark of the Spiritual mind is that тАУ it does not lend veracity even to the factual world.
