The man of knowledge will just not waste his precious moments, his energy, his words. Don’t leave the mental space vacant. When you have the highest object in the mind, you will not tolerate somebody substituting it with something inferior.
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Acharya Prashant: The man of knowledge avoids action that leads to miscellaneous places. Suvaad or Samvaad is an utterance that brings clarity and Truth to yourself and the other, right? That’s the mark of the right action — it brings clarity to yourself and the other. That’s the litmus test. He is alert all the time. “This that I am thinking, this that I am saying, this that I am doing, what is it going to lead to? If I am talking to someone, is it for the purpose of bringing clarity to the other, or is it for the sake of dominating the other?”
The moment he detects that his intention is to prove a point, to dominate the other, to bully or coerce the other, he simply withdraws, and he says, “No, no, no. I’m a traveler, and every action is a step. Every uttered word is a step. Every thought is a step. I am a traveler. I must step only in the direction of the destination. If I am stepping in any other miscellaneous direction, I am wasting time and energy. I won’t do that.” So, he freezes. He retreats. In the middle of a heated discussion, it might just strike him, “What the hell am I doing all this for? Why must I be entangled in this debate?”
And then you might find that in the middle of a sentence, he stops and withdraws, not caring even to finish that sentence. That’s the hallmark of honesty. “Now that I know. Now, this moment, suddenly, that I realize that I am into it for egoistic purposes, I won’t continue for even half a second more. Till this point, unfortunately, I was misled. I did not remember, so I was being carried away by emotion, by passion, by Maya. But suddenly, I have woken up.”
