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Acharya Prashant: Desire means that you are not alright with yourself and you want something else to happen, correct? So, we are anyway not living for ourselves. We are rather living to change ourselves. And are these not two very different things? If you are living for yourself as you are, then why would you want change? Why would you say I want a bigger car? Why would you say I want respect, or a beautiful man or woman? Then continue being as you are. But you don’t want to continue being as you are. You don’t live for yourself. You live for a better self. Is that in?

You don’t live for ‘yourself.’ You live for a ‘better self.’

So we all are anyway desirous of a ‘better self,’ are we not? There is nobody here who’d not say that he or she is not desirous of a better self. Better self meaning a better you, correct? So now listen to this again. “For not one of us lives for himself and not one dies for himself”. We all want something better and different. The only obstacle is, that we want that better thing as per the definitions of this inferior thing that we anyway want to drop.

It’s like this. You have a servant. He has been exposed as corrupt, unfriendly, hostile, and also stupid. A servant exposed as corrupt, hostile, and stupid. And because you are now firing him you want a better servant. You don’t want this servant. Now, you want a better servant. But how are you choosing a better servant? You are asking this one who is being fired, to recommend a better servant.

What exactly was the charge upon him? That he is hostile, stupid, and corrupt. And now you are telling him – you will have to go, you will have to go, but the new one who will come will come upon your recommendation. That is the mistake the entire mankind makes. All of us want to get rid of this stupid servant. And this stupid servant is our current condition. But we want a future as envisioned by this same current condition.