A questioner explains that initially, he had a strong urge to understand his life and had many questions. After starting to work and gaining some understanding, this urge has diminished. He now feels he has no questions or resistance, yet he also feels he is living a false life, repeatedly falling back into his old habits. He feels like a dishonest person, a machine, and is unable to enjoy life or even feel like living. He acknowledges that his spiritual progress was once his main goal, but now that feeling is almost gone. Acharya Prashant responds by repeatedly asking, "What is the problem?" He explains that no situation is a problem in itself. As long as you are alright with it, there is no need to ask for a change. Spirituality is not a moral obligation. He points out that if you don't feel a moral obligation to be spiritual, and you don't find anything else worthy to do, then there is no problem. However, the questioner states that he does not like what he is doing every day. Acharya Prashant highlights this contradiction, stating that if you don't like your situation, you must rebel, disown, and destroy it. If you don't like it and still continue, you are not a man at all; you are a machine, a neutral, unconscious object. He elaborates that to be a man and still not act according to one's discretion is to abuse one's consciousness. A man either likes what is going on in his life and therefore does not act, or he dislikes it and acts. To dislike but not act is an abuse of consciousness, against the very essence of being human. He compares this to a child who, without any spiritual education, spits out something they don't like. At some point, one has to take responsibility and declare, "I do not like it. This will not continue because I do not like it." This declaration is what makes you a man.
