Man is usually just prakriti: y = sin(x). You are confined within duality — ups and downs, ups and downs, leading to nothing. But life is life only if there is another curve: y = x. It is the curve of consciousness that is not satisfied with merely being prakriti, the body — eating, excreting, sweating, reproducing. But it is helpless, because ours is a body-dependent consciousness. Hence, your life curve must be y = x + sin(x). Just ensure that the curve of consciousness is steep enough to carry, and rather override, the curve of the body.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, in a recent session one has heard from you that the binary of going up and down in life, it will continue. It would never happen that you would have either only highs or only lows. So, somebody had asked that the person was experiencing these highs and lows very frequently. So, I could relate to this question and I was in a way anticipating a response, but what you said was very radical for me. You had said that such a movement will exist, it would not cease, what you have to ensure is that this movement is upward and not downward. So, your lows have to be higher lows and....
Acharya Prashant: You are talking of the spiritual journey?
Questioner: In general living from day to night.
Acharya Prashant: My response would only be in the context of spiritual movement.
