Question: We generally say, “Let me do this task and then I will be in awareness.” Why do we defer awareness? Why do we keep on postponing awareness?
Why are there forces, psychological and physiological, that work against awareness? If one must live in awareness, then why is maya against it?
Acharya Prashant: You are bearing the accumulated load of the actions and ignorance of mankind, since centuries. Maya doesn’t come walking towards you as a concept or as a person. What is maya? Maya is just all these notions that have been implanted in your mind about how things must be.
Existence does not conspire against wisdom. Existence has nothing against wisdom. In fact, you attain to wisdom by watching the ways of existence. Existence is not poised against wisdom. The sun, the river, the air, the mountains, the waterfalls, they are not against wisdom.
It was Chuang Tzu who said, The sound of water says what I think.” He then said, “You will always find an answer in the sound of water.”
Existence is so very open. It is like an open book, ready to reveal its secrets. So don’t ever think that there is some diabolic agency with a mission to corrupt you. It’s just that you are paying the price of the accumulated ignorance since centuries. Just that. Nothing more.
