Truth is not about lofty words and scholarly theories. Truth is, first of all, a deep desire to help. If they see that you want to help, they will listen. Then they will listen even if they are not able to make perfect sense of your words. To your words, people listen later. The first thing that they listen to is your empathy. They want to see whether your face and your eyes carry their pains. If your eyes contain not a bit of the pain that they live in, they will not be able to listen to you.
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Questioner: Good evening, Acharya Ji. So my question is, I actually have two questions. My first question is regarding me personally.
The thing that I face is that when I am speaking to someone in a group, I always tend to provoke people with my ideas and whatever opinion I have. Like, for example, I can tell you: when I’m talking to people regarding what you teach, what other gurus teach, like Osho, maybe; so they often like the ideas that I tell them regarding the various texts that we have. They are often provoked; that is one example that I’m telling you.
And I don’t know this happens to me in every sphere. Whatever ideas I’m telling, when I think that I’m talking to people, often the conversation gets really awkward at that point. They start to repel me. And if I’m talking to someone new, well, I often come across as charming, but eventually, when they get to know me, my depth, they often don’t like me enough.
So what can I do to make myself more likable, even though I have provocative thoughts, as people have signaled to me previously? That is my first question. Should I continue with the next question also?
