Don’t wear masks. Have that self-respect. That’s what is dignity. This is who I am, and I’ll not exchange my truth for your sake. If you are all right with who I really am, let’s be together. But don’t ask me to drop my authenticity. Most of your existing relationships will fail this test because they are relationships between masks. You wear a mask, and you expect the other to wear a mask. And you know, there is no fun. You do not even know the other’s face. There is actually no relationship at all.
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Questioner: Namaste, sir. So my question is about relationships. As you said, the main purpose of a relationship is for liberation, or the real relationship is that which helps in liberation. But in my life, I see that there are both kinds of relationships—those which help me in liberation and those which do not help me, which are like physical relationships or the relationships that I got by birth, which I did not choose.
So my question is, how should I deal with those relationships which do not help me in liberation? And you also said that there is nothing that doesn't have the potential to assist you. So that means the relationships which are bodily relationships also have a potential to assist me in liberation. So how can I—
Acharya Prashant: No, they will assist you by being no more. I did not say that stuff as it will be helpful to you. There are things that are of use when you preserve them and maintain them, and there are things that are of use when you throw them away. So, I'll be helpful to you by being no more. That’s the way those things will be of help to you.
