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Acharya Prashant

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Watchful? Watch Out! || AP Neem Candies

Acharya Prashant: If somebody could actually fully implement these pieces of advice about watchfulness and mindfulness, then the dangerous nature of these pieces of advice would be exposed.

The mindfulness industry has managed to survive only because nobody can practically do what they are advising. If even one person can practically do what they are advising, he will prove the very debilitating nature of that advice through his madness. “He did it fully and he went crazy”—and that would be the end of these teachings.

But, fortunately for these teachings, they are so impractical, so crazy, that they can never really be implemented. Nobody can be so watchful about every morsel of food or every blink of the eye or every round of respiration. So, people just survive going mad.

And when they cannot implement these teachings fully, they feel that they are guilty and have therefore not benefited from the teachings. “I could not benefit from them because I could not implement them fully.” The bugger does not know that if he could implement them fully, he would go crazy.

The saint has never, never been known to be the one who is observant about these minor, microscopic things in life. The saint’s heart is elsewhere. He in fact ignores these tidbits called daily life. You look at his clothing, and it is possible that you might find that something is torn somewhere, and he is oblivious of it. He totally ignores these things.

He is carrying some utensil and the utensil has a hole. You become conscious of that hole, the fakir keeps ignoring that hole. Forget about ignoring the hole—if you tell him, “There is a hole in your vessel,” he will say, “Is there? Where? Where?” He is lost, he is somewhere else.

This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
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