Right action brings us peace, relaxation, and reasonless contentment. But we avoid it because it’s incompatible with our entire life structure, built on a wrongly lived past and the great stakes raised in it. Now, even if we accidentally make the right decision, it causes a lot of suffering and shakes up our foundations, making us go back to our dated, pre-existing ways.
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Questioner: Sir, you have said, 'Right action is its own reward; the wrong action is its own punishment.' Basis your quote, the common man must choose right action and be naturally aversive to the wrong action but that does not happen. Kindly, throw some light on it.
Acharya Prashant : 'Right action is its own reward; the wrong action is its own punishment but people still seem to be aversive to right action and going for the wrong action.'
So, why this contradiction? That’s the question.
To whom are these rewards or punishments coming? You have to understand this. If someone has lived an entire lifetime based on wrong decisions and wrong actions, then what is wrong starts appearing right to this person.
But before we proceed, we must revisit what the right action or decision means?
