Real change begins now and does not wait for grand occasions || Acharya Prashant (2015)

Question: Life is almost like a tug-of-war. At one point we are averse to change, but at the other end, we love change so much. At least speaking about myself, I can say so. You don’t like change when it happens on its own, but you like to make changes to life, constantly. Why does this happen?

If I speak of myself, why am I so eager to change things, always?

Speaker: Because you want a change.

Listener 1: That is what. But why is it so?

Speaker: Because you don’t like the way things are. Nobody likes the way things are, but ours’ is a very peculiar situation. It is as if, one is contained in a gas chamber; a gas chamber that one was born in, raised in, educated in, cultured in, conditioned in, got married in, had kids in, has friends and society in.

And the gas chamber is a ‘gas chamber’. It suffocates, poisons. And all that one can do is, rush from one corner of the chamber to the other corner. One is so used to the chamber, that one won’t go out of it. So you want a change, but that is the maximum extent of change, that you dare to have – rush from one corner of the chamber to the other corner.