Questioner: Why is there a difference of intensity and love for mukti (liberation) between different human beings?
Acharya Prashant: The differences that you are talking of all relate to time; therefore, they all will be resolved in due course of time. Time gave rise to all those differences, and those differences will not survive the test of time. Therefore, if one is inclined towards mukti today, the other one will be inclined towards mukti tomorrow. Time is not going to spare anybody.
Liberation is almost like death. What death is to the physical body, liberation is to the inner body—unavoidable.
Questioner: But even the intensity with which one wants liberation varies, right?
Acharya Prashant: That intensity is time. Time gives you experiences, right? Somebody’s body has had different experiences; somebody has had different experiences in education, in society, in growing up, so he will probably have a more pronounced desire for liberation. And somebody has had a different time, somebody has lived differently. Somebody’s biological code is a little different, which also comes from time; he might show a little less pronounced inclination towards liberation. But just as this difference in attitude came over time, similarly time will level the whole thing out. The differences will be gone.
