Acharya Prashant: Leaving what is not, That is all right, but that leaving is not done with an objective to get joy. Had the thing been so transactional that you could leave one thing and as an exchange offer get another thing, then everybody would have taken the deal. Were joy so cheap that it came in exchange for this and that, then we all would be full of joy. This is not exactly what the Ashtavakra Gita says.
There is this mind which wants something. The world is an object. Whenever you say ‘the world’, you do not mean the same thing. You mean one thing, he means another, he means a third thing. We use a common word, ‘world’. Is the world the same in your mind as it is in his mind? The world is your favorite set of objects. Do you see this? What is the world?
Questioner 1: World is what we have created in our mind.
Acharya Prashant: Yes, but what is the world? Quickly! Whenever you say 'world', what do you mean?
Questioner1: People, objects…
Acharya Prashant: And particular people?
Questioner1:
