Growth is a reduction, growth is a dissolution. True growth is rather a contraction, bidding goodbye, letting go, dropping, unburdening, unloading, unbecoming. Those are the real words. This birth that we are carrying as our identity is just suffering for the one who is carrying it. Why should you carry something that simply burdens you? That’s what is intended to be read.
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Questioner: Namaskar Acharya Ji, here you have quoted that “True growth requires a second birth; through self-knowledge, education, and freedom from the instincts we inherit.” Now, saying that true growth requires a second birth, definitely it’s not a biological one, it will come from knowledge or that is also self-knowledge.
Now, how will I get to know that my second birth has started?
Acharya Prashant: They wanted to keep it a little sweet. This needed to be a bestseller. Bluntly put. Other days I would have written, true growth requires a real death. Instead, I’ve written, true growth requires a second birth.
It’s not really a second birth; it’s, first of all, a demise of the one that you are. That’s what is needed, the one that you have become, right? So, growth is then not accumulative, not additive.
