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Why does mind fear change? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2014)
Acharya Prashant
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Fear of Change
Acquisitions
Identity
Fearlessness
Evolution
Conditioning
Realization
Internal Sustenance
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that the mind does not fear change itself but rather the loss of its acquired contents. The mind's identity is built upon borrowed objects such as money, relationships, respect, and the body, all of which are subject to disappearance over time. Because the mind has no control over these external acquisitions, it lives in constant fear of impoverishment. However, if the mind discovers something more valuable that cannot be taken away, it will no longer resist change but will instead welcome it. Fearlessness arises only when one stops drawing sustenance from external situations and instead finds an internal realization that remains untouched by society or time.