We know the shortcut will cost us later, and we take it anyway. We tell ourselves the reckoning lies somewhere ahead, in a court, a bill, a bad result. But what if the price is already being paid, the moment we choose? The one in us who longs for love and freedom is the same one who shuts the cage door, hoping to keep everything at once. No judge sits outside us; we are the judge and the convict both. What do we most deeply want, and what keeps competing with it?
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[From a Bhagavad Gita session at St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, 2026]
Acharya Prashant: Those who are deluded about all knowledge, devoid of consciousness, Achetasah. Sarvajnana Vimudha. Sarvajnana Vimudha and Achetasah. Invested in cavil. You remember? Asuya. And do not honor my teachings. Do not think that their future will be ruined or they will one day perish at the hands of time. They already stand destroyed. They stand already destroyed. Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 3, Verse 32.
Shri Krishna is not delivering a sentence. He’s not announcing a punishment to the ego. He’s not reading out a verdict. It would be better to say he’s reading out the news. He’s just declaring the facts. He’s announcing to the ego how it is right now, not how it would be in the future. The future, like everything else, is food to the ego. If truth could be food to the ego, a future is a small thing. And the ego is actually not too worried about what the future would look like. At least if the egoic desires can be satiated right now.
