If not for your own sake, then work for others || Acharya Prashant (2019)

Questioner: Pranaam Acharya Ji. My question is about suffering.

With your guidance, I have to come to see that my life is nothing but a big lump of suffering. It includes the whole swing of pain and pleasure, attachment and aversion, and my role in them as the ‘I’.

Even so, I still feel that there is the impenetrable armour of numbness towards myself. There is no authenticity in this realization of suffering, there is no right action. It feels very dry.

I keep listening to you, and sometimes your words penetrate through that armour. But still again and again I choose to stay in the dirt. The situation seems hopeless but not hopeless in the sense of surrender, but rather in the sense of becoming cynical. Please explain how can I truly see nothing, when the instrument of seeing itself seems to be very polluted?

Thanks for your infinite patience.

Acharya Prashant: Ilmari (the questioner), Love. Where is Love in all this? That’s your medicine. Generally, that’s the panacea.

If not your own suffering moves you, then look at other’s suffering. You come from a country where suffering is at least not obvious. (The questioner comes from Finland).