To questions of your life, who else would know the answers? || Acharya Prashant (2014)

Questioner: How should I identify my calling? If I have two options in front of me – I am doing engineering but I want to know and go for film-making. Would it be okay if I go in that direction? I like both the ways, Engineering as well as film-making.

Speaker: I have four kinds of answers, would it be okay if I give you answer 2 or answer 3? If I have to give an answer, who must know the answer? Whose life is it? If I have to give the answer, should you decide the answer? And if Shivam (referring to the questioner) has to decide the answer then I am a worthless man sitting on this chair.

This is the chair of life, this is the hot seat, you are sitting here, it’s not me who is sitting here. Do you understand? You are sitting here. And if you are sitting here, who will decide the answer?

You are asking me a question, what should I say – I have four options -and you tell me which option do you want? Would that be a worthy answer? If I must answer, if it is my answer, then who must know the answer? If it is your life, your calling, who must know the answer?

You already made the first mistake by not knowing. Would an organization like Advait exist if I were to ask people around me? There is nothing similar to it, there is no precedence, there is nothing I could copy or follow, would it ever come into existence if I were to go and seek advice?