The ego likes to settle matters too soon, the ego likes to conclude too soon. Wherever there is a conclusion, wherever there is a settlement, wherever there is an ending that thought can grasp, it is a false ending, it is a false realization. I have no interest in talking about what true realization is like. True realization is anywhere not a subject matter of this course. We should rather warn of that which is false. Read more....
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Acharya Prashant: Yes, the topic is the infectiousness of boredom. Not only is boredom infectious, anything and everything that the mind experiences is contagious, infectious.
You experienced it with respect to one particular way of the mind, one particular move of the mind right now. That does not mean that only boredom is contagious, that rather means that right now there is a particular environment in which you could observe this particular infectiousness that affects the mind. It is happening at every moment.
Mind you, it has happened 300 times with you since this morning. But, you couldn’t notice it in the previous 299 occasions. So, the question to be asked is not whether boredom is infectious. Mind itself is an infection and acquisition, an import.
There is no way, in the mind, that arises on its own. Because on its own, anyway, the mind is nothing. The mind operates in duality. And, duality is nothing on its own. One end is dependent on the other, just as much as is the other end dependent on the first one. So, what is on its own? Is the world on its own? No, not really, the world is dependent on the mind. Is the mind on its own? No, not really, the mind is dependent on the world. Where do both come from? That will be answered when there is no mind to ask this question. That will be answered when there is no mind to receive the answer. And that’s a pretty impossible thing for the mind to grasp.
