Questioner: Sir, sometimes in our mind, our thought always continuously revolves around in our mind that things will work out somehow. Is it a good thing to think about the thought or something? I am not doing very well.
Acharya Prashant: What’s your name?
Questioner: Pranav.
Acharya Prashant: Pranav. Of course, every desire wants its fulfilment. Hope is the substance of mind. Whenever there is a desire, of course, you want it to be materialized. That will work out. Something will happen. The question is not whether that thing will happen or not. Because that is anyway the nature of desire to ask for its fulfilment, completion. If I have a desire, I want it to be somehow fulfilled.
The question is, the more important question is, whose desire and where is the desire coming from? Yes, I want that I get what I desire. But what do I desire? Whose desires are these actually? What does a terrorist desire? (Repeating) What does a terrorist desire? And remember, he is a terrorist for you. For some other, he is a freedom fighter. And what does he desire? To kill.
In your parlance, it would be called murder, cold-blooded killing. In his language, it would be called a war waged upon the sinister enemy. And he will say, “It is my own desire.” He will not even know that when he was just five years old, he was taken to a particular camp where he was indoctrinated that people of such and such country or such and such religion are his deep enemies.
