Question: If one is living without purpose, how does one act?
Acharya Prashant: Let’s see, from where the question is coming. It only shows that so far we have acted only with?
Listener: Purpose.
AP: Purpose.
To act with purpose is to act in exploitation.To act in purpose is to act in deprivation.
When you feel deprived, only then you want to exploit the other one. Mostly, we say that we act because we want to attain something. There is another way of living, you say, ‘You act because you are already in attainment.’ You are not acting in order to attain because you know that the Real cannot be attained by action; nothing that you do will bring the real to you.
An act of mind can only bring some mind-made stuff to you. Any act of mind will fail in bringing that to you, which is beyond the mind.
