No action can correct another action; only in understanding do all actions dissolve || Acharya Prashant (2014)

Question: Destruction of our world, which we find comfort in, is inevitable. We can only help ourselves understand this, and minimize our suffering. To a cozily sleeping mind though, this realization is a nightmare. We can only pull it out slowly from of its deep sleep.

Travelling without luxuries and comforts, forces the mind to be in the moment, and breaks years of patterns. Can meaningful travelling be used as a technique to slowly awaken the mind?

Acharya Prashant: We often think that a particular action can bring the mind to awareness. We pit action against action. We think that there are good actions and bad actions, meaningful actions and meaningless actions.

Let me say something, ‘No action can ever obliterate another action.’ Actions do nothing to the quality of the mind. It is quality of the mind in which any action is done; and that is the real thing.

You can take a shower, a bath. Now, the bath doesn’t cleanse you. The real question is, what is the mind that is entering this action? Where is this action coming from? You said, “meaningful travelling,” where is the meaning coming from? What kind of mind? Because after all, you will supply the meaning, right? And you will determine whether it is meaningful or meaningless. You are the judge, you are the advocate and you are standing in the dock.