Without an inner firmness, does one even exist? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Question: Acharya Ji, you said earlier that whatever emotions one goes through, like – anger, greed, sadness, jealousy – anything that we go through, one must examine it. I am examining it in relation to whichever object in front of me it is arising. Is this, what is – the observer, the observed, and the process of observation?

Acharya Prashant Ji: Explain.

Questioner: So, I see a luxury car in front of me, and there is greed arising out of me. I see a woman who is conventionally considered to be pretty, and there is lust arising out of me. Each of these emotions that are coming out, is in relation to the objects in front of me.

So my understanding of this, and going more and more in depth of this, is that how it is going to work? And do I have to apply this to more and more objects?

Acharya Prashant Ji: The more you apply it, the more continuously you apply it, the more you see that you exist only in relation to objects.

Eureka!

The girl turns you a man, the car turns you a consumer. Who are you?