Acharya Prashant explains that many people are averse to or scared of spirituality because they feel a lot will be taken away from them. They do not realize that they are being purified, not killed. He likens this process to taking a bath, which is surely different from being administered poison. When you take a bath, you surely lose something, the dirt, and when you lose that stuff, it makes you shine. That is why people say they are feeling fresh after a bath. This freshness is experienced because that which was not fresh has been scrubbed away. Spirituality does the same thing. The speaker defines "fresh" as original, just born now, not coming from the stream of time, and not stale. He clarifies that the right meaning of the word "original" is this freshness. Freshness is not something you apply from the outside like a lotion; you had freshness within you, but it was badly hidden beneath layers of yourself. You meet your own freshness by scrubbing away the layers of rubbish on your body. We identify with this rubbish. If you have a lot of rubbish on your face and someone takes a picture, they have actually clicked the rubbish, but you call that rubbish your face. Freshness doesn't come from outside; it is revealed when you scrub away or tear away that which never deserved to be on your face in the first place. Your real face is extremely beautiful, but you have unfortunately started believing in a foolish and ugly face. The tragedy is that the real thing is beautiful but hidden, and you are investing in and identifying with something so ugly. All your patronage is going towards it. Entire spirituality is just the encouragement to correct your choice. If you have to choose between your beauty and your ugliness, which are both yours, why choose rubbish? Spirituality encourages having some faith that even if you scrub something away, even if a layer is peeled off, there is something beautiful within.
