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The right action always looks strange, the wrong always looks known || Acharya Prashant (2016)
Acharya Prashant
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Right Action
Conditioning
Misplaced Action
Personal Priorities
Maya
Mind
Divine Tragedy
Unknowable
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that no action is inherently bad; rather, an action is only bad if it is misplaced or performed at the wrong time and place. He emphasizes that even acts like killing can be appropriate in the right context, while giving birth can be a crime if done at the wrong time. Wrong action originates from personal priorities, likes, dislikes, and conditioned preferences. When an individual steps back and allows life to function through them, letting personal priorities become subservient to something greater, right action occurs. This right action is often new and unverifiable, which can cause fear, whereas wrong action feels comfortable and known because it is repetitive and conditioned. The speaker suggests that social approval and a comfortable life often indicate that one is living according to conditioned patterns rather than truth. True right action might appear as devastation to others, but it is felt as a divine blessing by the heart. He clarifies that even waiting is an action performed by an 'actor' and that as long as one claims to be the actor, real action cannot happen. Most human actions are merely products of social, familial, and educational conditioning, similar to a pre-programmed machine. By observing and acknowledging the falseness of the mind's conditioning, one creates an empty space for authentic action to arise spontaneously. He concludes that the source of right action is intentionally unknowable to prevent the ego from trying to control or exploit it.