Acharya Prashant: That's why the rājasika mind is better than the tāmsika mind. The rājasika says, “I’m not alright. I need to do something to become better. I feel inferior. I feel incomplete. I need to rise. I need to achieve.” That’s the rājasika mind. The rājasika mind at least admits that it is not alright. The rājasika mind at least admits that it needs to change and improve. Though it tries to improve in an unwise and foolish way, but at least that admission is there. “I’m not okay.”
The tāmsika mind is a tough nut to crack. “I’m alright.”
“But you’re not alright.”
“But I’m alright!”
“But you are unhappy.”
“Oh, I am joyful.”
“But then, yesternight you were wailing and sobbing.”
“In that is my pleasure!” That kind of an argument.
