A lot of people from the West come to India, thinking that the land itself will do something magical to them. The land will do nothing on its own. One comes to India to probe himself, to know himself. The process is Upanishadic — of deep discussion and deliberation. If you are madly in love with realization, then India can bless you with something very magical. But India’s blessings cannot be foisted upon someone; one has to be deeply in love with, and desperate for those blessings.
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Questioner: Pranam, I have a question on gyaan(knowledge). As you said earlier, knowledge has to precede action, and this knowledge is the knowledge of the factual state of oneself as the ego, unfulfilled ego.
Acharya Prashant: The knowledge before action has to be of the actor itself.
Questioner: Yes, but it’s a constantly moving thing, right?
Acharya Prashant: Otherwise, you cannot have knowledge. This is very dynamic knowledge that you can attain only in the flux of life. It’s like measuring the speed of the water flow, if you want to measure the speed of flow, you have to measure it during the flow, in the flow, no?
