Most of the times, we are preoccupied with the first kind of hope, which says, “Get something, get something.” That kind of hope will keep me dependent and afraid. The second kind of hope which says, “I just want to get rid and discover my true nature, discover my aloneness and freedom." In this hope you say, “I am already a diamond. Just that a lot of dirt has gathered on the diamond, and I want to get rid of the dirt.
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Acharya Prashant: I said, 'Firstly, hope asks for change.' It is an expectation from the future and a movement away from what you think exists. First kind of hope wants for a change and in this change, it says, “I don’t have, I want more.” That is the change it wants.
What is the change it wants? I don’t have, I want more. I don’t have security, I want to be secure. I don’t have money, I want to be well-monied. This hope is about gathering and hence, this hope will make you dependent. Because gathering will necessarily happen from the outside.
When you take something, it is prone to be taken back as well. And because what you want depends on the world, so it is not certain that you will get it. Hence there will be fear; the fear that the hope will not materialize. What kind of hope is the first kind? Which says, “I want to get more. I want to become something. I want to become something; I want to get something.”
This hope firstly makes you dependent. Secondly, it makes you live in fear. Because the moment you will hope, there always be the fear that the hope may not? Materialize. If it is certain, if your hope is certain, then it is no more a hope. Whenever you say, “Hope,” there is always an element of chance, probability attached to it, right?
