To help others you must be free of others || Acharya Prashant (2015)
Question: Whatever I understand, I know it will vanish.
Speaker: So your question rests on an assumption that you ‘do’ understand something. Should I take it any further?
Even in our humility lies only arrogance. “Whatever I understand, it will vanish, and before it vanishes I want to give it to others. But people around me are not interested in all this, so I am improving very slowly.”
Who are these people around you? What is their nature? What do you consider yourself to be? If you are given a thousand years, will you have a perfect world? What do you mean by ‘a perfect world’? The world has its ways of operating. The individual that you are – divided from the world – will never be at absolute peace with the world. Otherwise there is going to be no separation at all. Otherwise, the world will disappear and the individual too will disappear. For you to write that the world is not a pleasing place, there has to be a ‘you’. For you to write that the world is a pleasing place, there again has to be a ‘you’; a ‘you’ separate from the world. This separation is anyway going to be there.
Is it about the people around you, or is it about yourself? This friction, this strife is always going to be there, in some form or the other. Yes, you can change the form. Yes, the form can get sublimated. But because by definition you are separate, so the separation will continue. And the final separation will be – that you will be separated in the form of death.
