Why should I understand the mind? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Questioner: What is the need to differentiate between the Self and the mind?

Shri Prashant: I’ll make it a little easier for you, I will rephrase this question into:

What is the need at all to understand the Real Self?

Because only when you go into this process does the distinction come, that the mind may not be the real self. Ultimately his question is, ‘Why must I know myself? What is the need to go within? What is the need of self inquiry? ‘

Life is going on pleasantly, nicely. There seem no hiccups. I have a set routine. I have my normal spectrum of pains and pleasures, and I am cruising along. So what is the need to find all this out- the self, and the mechanics of the mind? Why must I understand them at all? Or in other words, why this type of course is being floated at all? Because that is the very objective of this course?’

Why must we understand all this? Because only in the process of understanding this that we come across this distinction- that there is the mind and that mind may not be ‘me’.

Alright! Let us see.