Your morality is your bondage || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Acharya Prashant (AP): Tell me all of you, what is right and what is wrong? How do you know, what is right and how do you know, what is wrong?

Someone told you what is right and someone told you what is wrong and not only that, someone also told you that there is something called ‘right’ and something called ‘wrong’ and you started believing in it so deeply; you have been made a fool of.

What do you mean by right, what do you mean by wrong? What do you mean by right, what do you mean by wrong? All our sense of right and wrong is a borrowed sense of right and wrong. All this ethics, morality they are coming from outside we never founded out on our own.

You are this old and mama says, “Don’t hurt others, be respectful to elders, speak the truth, be a loving person.” And all this is right and the opposite of this happens to be wrong. But if you are a smart kid, you turn around and ask mama; “Mama, why should I speak the truth always?”

But mama doesn’t know because her own mama told that to her and her own mama got it from her own mama and nobody really knows but the mantra is been repeated — ‘speak the truth’ and the world is now full of liar, who are all being told in their childhood ‘please speak the truth’, all have been told ‘respect others’, ‘don’t hurt others’, ‘don’t be violent’ but the world is entirely full of rapists.

Have you not wondered, why that happens? That happens because nothing comes out in our life from our intelligence, all comes from outside and when it comes from outside that’s what we get; a botched up human being, a botched up human being, a caricature of a human being, not a really healthy intelligent man.