Question. Don't Believe. || Acharya Prashant (2025)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00We have Ravi Singh Ji who is asking that if everything is happening within consciousness

00:04and the individual self is ultimately an illusion, then why does Achareji emphasize

00:09finding meaningful work? Wouldn't emerging oneself in deep meditation be the most direct

00:14path to reconnect with the source of consciousness? What was the first little word?

00:18If everything is happening within consciousness. Stop. Is that how your life is?

00:24Then what is the point in asking this question? My entire effort is to remove that if from your

00:29life. But you put that if and you feel it's a minor addition. Won't spoil anything. It spoils

00:34everything. Next time you are thirsty and you come to me and I'll say let there be some water.

00:40Second half illuminate me please. Wouldn't emerging oneself in deep meditation. What is that?

00:47What kind of immersion are you talking of? How will you immerse yourself? Should I haul you up by the

00:52collar and then immerse yourself in some well? What is this? We are used to a lifestyle.

00:59That is founded on avoiding facts. I said have some taste for nakedness. Clothes are alright on the body,

01:08not on consciousness. Continue with the oneself in deep meditation be the most direct path to reconnect

01:14with the source of consciousness.

01:15So where are you coming from? What do you mean by reconnect? When were you previously connected?

01:23How did the signal go off? I am just asking a few innocent questions. And there should have been

01:28somebody in your process of education to ask these questions much earlier. But nobody did.

01:32Had we been a really conscious society, the author of these lines should have been jailed.

01:39Achareji, next we have Ravi Singh Ji who is asking that if everything is happening within consciousness

01:49and the individual self is ultimately an illusion, then why does Achareji emphasize finding meaningful work

01:56and do it with full passion so deeply that you forget time itself? Wouldn't emerging oneself in deep

02:02meditation be the most direct path to reconnect with the source of consciousness? And I do all that so

02:10that from this entire statement, the first little word disappears.

02:15What was the first little word? What was the first consciousness? What was the first word

02:28in the statement right in front of you? If. Yes. If means for somebody else. It's an ideal,

02:39it is not something of your life. Now repeat the statement starting with if. If everything is

02:48happening within consciousness. Stop. If everything is happening within consciousness,

02:54is that how your life is? Then what is the point in asking this question?

03:00For you everything is happening in the material world outside of you. Not in the subtle world inside

03:10of you. For you this is a mere idea. That's why that little if exists and my entire effort is to remove

03:19that if from your life. But you put that if and you feel it's a minor addition, won't spoil anything,

03:26it spoils everything. It spoils everything. Next time you are thirsty and you come to me and I'll say,

03:41let there be some water. Instead of saying here is some water, I'll say let there is some water or

03:53if there is some water. You need water, not a story beginning with if.

04:03It's obvious. But you are coming from an ideal and that ideal is contained in the second half of your

04:10question. Why should we not meditate? Some Baba Ji. Read that second half. Illuminate me please.

04:21Wouldn't immersing oneself in deep meditation. What is meant by that? Immersing oneself in me deep

04:27meditation. What do you mean by that? What is meditation? What is that this oneself that you will

04:32take and immerse? What kind of immersion are you talking of? Like taking a soiled shirt and immersing

04:42it in some water? How will you immerse yourself? Should I haul you up by the collar and then immerse

04:52yourself in some well? What do you mean by immersing oneself in deep meditation? Please tell me beyond

04:57the trick of words. What is this? Immersing oneself in deep meditation. Please tell me what is this?

05:04And what is this oneself? Ego? Ego, right? What do you mean by meditation to the ego?

05:14But we are used

05:15a lifestyle that is founded on avoiding facts. And to avoid facts, idioms, words, euphemisms are just so handy.

05:32You are snoring. You are snoring. No. I am immersing myself in an altered state of consciousness.

05:47And it is a state of consciousness that the Upanishads too talk of. It is very adjacent to Jagrati.

05:53So, you have dozed away. You are actively snoring. No, no, no. I have immersed myself in an alternate

06:08state of consciousness just adjacent to Jagrati. How much effort you put just in deceiving yourself,

06:20immersing myself in meditation? What is that? What do you mean by meditation? And what is immersion in that

06:30thing called meditation? And who is being immersed? But you will never ask these questions because

06:36some Babaji totally dominated your faculty to question. With this get up,

06:44the entire works, the demeanor, the voice, the body tone. And you are ordered to immerse yourself in

07:03meditation. I am immersing myself in meditation. I said have some taste for nakedness.

07:20Clothes are alright on the body, not on consciousness. Our consciousness is also a very clothed thing.

07:28Clothed and outwardly respectable consciousness.

07:38Continue with the… Yes, how to immerse oneself in meditation then?

07:46And oneself in deep meditation be the most direct path to reconnect with the source of consciousness.

07:52I really wish we never went to school, we never attended any language or literature classes.

08:17So, at least we wouldn't have so many deceptive words in our vocabulary.

08:25This is all that education has given us. More and more means to deceive ourselves,

08:30reconnect with the source of consciousness. So, where are you coming from? What do you mean by

08:35reconnect? When were you previously connected? How did the signal go off?

08:42What are you talking of?

08:47What is the source of consciousness? There is no consciousness.

08:57What is the source of this elephant? There is no elephant. How do you know something as a source?

09:05What do you mean by that? Where is this knowledge coming from? Is it knowledge at all?

09:11Is it knowledge at all? But this is, do you hear this? This is what the world of spirituality is about.

09:20Random mumbo jumbo. Elephants, dinosaurs in the room. And then you say the source of the dinosaur.

09:41And if I am sounding abrasive, it is only because these words, this advice, this kind of feedback,

09:51should have come to you much, much earlier in your life.

09:56But you have been pampered and you have been spoiled. So, you will feel I am offending you.

10:09And you will feel that only because there has been probably nobody so far who could speak straight to you.

10:15Have I abused? Am I spitting on somebody? I am just asking a few innocent questions.

10:24And there should have been somebody in your process of education to ask these questions much earlier.

10:30But nobody did. So, when I do that now, I appear like the fallen culprit.

10:43Out to pinch and poke everybody and rub everybody the wrong way and oh, he is so abrasive.

10:49Am I abrasive? I am asking, what do you mean by immersion in meditation and reconnecting to the source of consciousness?

10:58What is that? And all of that anyway started with an if.

11:05You know what the scary part is? All of this is very much admissible in conventional spirituality,

11:16Lok Dharam. The statement that has been made is a beautiful statement in the domain of Lok Dharam.

11:25This is the very stuff of Lok Dharam. Just hollow but high sounding statements.

11:35Real spirituality is not about something that sounds elevated or admirable or respectable.

11:45Real spirituality is actually a very shameless thing. We said stripped of all covers, all clothing.

11:57One has to have taste for nakedness, not for the well dressed up priest.

12:05And this makes me angry. Somebody put these words in your mind, right? They are not original.

12:17Who was that person? Who did that?

12:26Huh? Some religious authority or some book where you read this stuff up.

12:32Reconnecting with the source of consciousness. Had we been a really conscious society,

12:41the author of these lines should have been jailed.

12:52And that would have been perfectly constitutional.

12:54Reconnecting with the source of consciousness is a fundamental duty under the constitution.

12:56Because deceiving somebody invites section 420.

13:12And having a scientific temperament and a spirit of inquiry

13:17is a fundamental duty under the constitution.

13:19And learn to ask this question. Whenever you are bombarded with high-sounding fluff,

13:32what exactly? What exactly does that mean?

13:41Please tell me. Please tell me. Please tell me in the language of the air and the water and the dust and the earth.

13:56Tell me in the language of the air and the earth. Tell me in the language of the bare facts.

14:06Don't give me pointers and abstractions and idioms and euphemisms. No.

14:12No. Oh, karma will return to bite you. What exactly does that mean? Please tell me.

14:30Interrupt. Don't let the fellow continue.

14:34Please wait. What did you just say? Karma will return to bite you. What does that mean?

14:43Karma is some dog or something. What is that karma?

14:48And how does it return to bite me? What exactly do you mean by that?

14:52You are my Ardhangini, my life partner. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Explain. Or we break up right now.

15:06What is this Ardhangini business?

15:13Bisexual? What what? Half of you, half of me, welded together.

15:22And what do you mean by life partner? What does that mean?

15:29What kind of partnership are we talking of?

15:35But the truth,

15:38but the truth is the casualty when these kinds of sugary idioms rule.

15:45I am immersed in your love. What? What do you mean by that?

16:00You have soaked up something

16:03belonging to me. And if you did that, that wasn't with my permission, sir.

16:08What have you done exactly? Is that a confession? I am immersed in your love.

16:19Gives me weird images. Obscene ideas.

16:26I am immersed in your love. Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, stop that and get out.

16:39But sounds so poetic.

16:43Enchanting. And you are mesmerized.

16:50Romantic mysticism.

16:55What exactly do you mean by that? Please tell me.

16:57The most common statements that come to you, the ones you are most used to,

17:14they are the ones that deserve your scrutiny the most.

17:16Don't let them pass.

17:24Don't let them pass.

17:27Grab them by the collar.

17:29Wait.

17:33You can't shoot and scoot.

17:39Yes, now tell me.

17:43What exactly? What does it mean?

17:46Enough of your fluffy poetry.

18:04Yes.

18:09Ah, Charity, it's already 12.45. Should we conclude the session?

18:17Anybody on this theme?

18:34This is a contradiction. Apparently,

18:37he stands to deliver the mic.

18:41So, the purpose is to enable the session to continue.

18:43But the intention is to discontinue.

18:52I stay in London, UK and right now I am visiting India.

18:56This was my first session today.

18:57And, yeah, it was really, really nice to see firsthand, like not a recording,

19:07because I've been following Acharya Ji for about two years now.

19:10And, uh, I've read his books and it was really lovely to see firsthand life.

19:16Um, reflections, um, most beautiful thing I find about, about Acharya Ji is how he gets

19:23into every single word about informing the definition of understanding.

19:30And the thing we said is when you define, the definition of understanding is it ends desire.

19:37Once you break it, it automatically ends desire because you see the whole and soul part of it.

19:42Again, I'm a professional in terms of, I'm a, uh, diabetic coach in, uh, working in NHS.

19:49So, I keep telling this to everyone where I say, you graduate step by step, graduate step by step.

19:56You know, uh, you don't go from zero goal to 10 goal directly.

19:59And he put it so simply in, in terms of facing fear.

20:05And I was like, I mean, so amazing.

20:09I mean, uh, these are a few reflections that I got from him.

20:12And, uh, yeah, I mean, his reflections always stick with me.

20:17That's why I, I implement them.

20:18I don't kind of write them.

20:20I make voice notes for this, but yeah, I'm very thankful for this session.

20:26I have to accept that.

20:29I have to accept that.

20:32I love you, too.

20:41I love you, too.

20:44I love you, too.

20:49I love you.

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