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If you don’t know who you are, then who is asking? || Acharya Prashant (2016)
Acharya Prashant
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Truth
Surrender
Limitations
Upanishads
Experience
Knowing
Limitless
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that one does not need to remember the truth because anything remembered is also prone to being forgotten. He suggests that trying to remember the truth is as irrelevant as trying to recall an old phone number. He emphasizes that the truth is beyond the province of thought and cannot be known in the way one knows an object or an animal in a zoo. Knowing, in this context, is described as a form of arrogance or violence that attempts to confine the infinite. Instead of seeking to know the truth, one must surrender and dissolve into it. When the individual self disappears, only then is the truth present, though there is no one left to 'know' it. Citing the Upanishads, he notes that those who claim to know do not truly know. He clarifies that there is no such thing as 'realization' in the way people typically imagine; there is only experience and surrender. Experience shows us our daily failures and limitations, while surrender involves dropping the desire to possess or confine the truth. Acharya Prashant concludes that understanding one's own limitations is sufficient, as being at peace with one's limitations is equivalent to being limitless.