If the system says, “Give me 10 hours for the salary that I give you,” the system will have 10 hours, it won’t spare you. Right? You still want liberation from the system, then be ready to work 15 hours, 10 for the system, the bare minimum that the system would agree with, and then 5 hours for your liberation.
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Questioner: My question is related to this 30th chapter, “No trophies, just play.” So here, like I read this: “Externally you might be defined by possessions or successes. Internally you must remain complete irrespective of the state of your body, mind, bank balance, or reputation.”
So my question is, even from yesterday’s session which I attended and which is relatable to this, that yesterday you asked us to be minding both the ways — *parmarthik tāl and vyavahārik tāl. So how to be in that state? Because for me, whenever I do something, I just flow into it and I want to be that way only, because I want to be free, like I don’t want to think about anything else.
Acharya Prashant: That has to be the background of all actions. That is something that has to be unconditionally remembered, like a silent cushive, that has to be remembered in a very passive way. Just as if they are clicking us, right? I’m there, the person next to me is there, but what remains constantly present is this (pointing to the books) in every single picture, though we never notice. The person standing here keeps changing but this remains continuously present, right? So this is the background that has to be present in all our pictures, and the pictures will keep changing.
