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Stop asking these spiritual questions || 'Karma' conversations, Acharya Prashant (2021)
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Supreme Consciousness
Present Moment
Pettiness
Universe
Thought
Action
Ego
Spirituality
Description

Acharya Prashant responds to a question about reaching supreme consciousness by emphasizing the importance of the present moment. He states that while it is great to aspire to reach great heights, what is more practically important is to see where one is acting in very limited ways. He advises setting aside the concept of the supreme for now and instead focusing on the imminent: what one is doing right now. The supreme means the highest or the ultimate, and the real question is whether we are committed to the 'highest' in our current actions. This is the only thing one can control, and it is what decides one's level of honesty. He explains that it does not make much sense to target the absolute while remaining willfully committed to small, petty things in daily life. To attain the immense, one must first weed out the pettiness from their life. This process is described as peeling off the layers of the inner ego. When a lot of these layers have been peeled away, the question about the supreme itself disappears. When one has no more questions about the supreme, the ultimate, or the Truth, one realizes there is hardly anything to be realized and hardly anybody who can realize it. Connecting this to the question of where the universe ends, Acharya Prashant explains that the universe stops where the thinker of the universe stops. He asserts that one's thinking is the universe, and therefore, there is no limit to it. As long as there is thought, there is one universe after another. Even the idea of a multiverse is still within the domain of thought. The universe stops only at the point where the perceiver of the universe stops. If you can wonder about what is beyond the universe, that wonder is still a part of the universe. Ultimately, he advises to stop caring or wondering so much about abstract concepts like the supreme or the end of the universe. Instead, one should look at their own life and daily actions. He suggests that questions about one's work, relationships, likes, dislikes, and livelihood are the questions that matter much more. These daily, mundane questions, he concludes, are the real spiritual ones.