Are you Crazy? || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Namaste Acharyaji. My name is Utsav. I'm from 2015 MBA batch. In my experience, only a crazy

00:11person can understand true love. So are you crazy?

00:18You're asking this question while assuming that what you have experienced and what you

00:25have concluded based on your experience is already true. Yes. So isn't it important that

00:35first of all we investigate the premise itself? Yes, of course. Or do you propose that we

00:43proceed on the assumption? No. So if you look at the mind and if you look at mind's perception

00:52of its own dissolution and then enjoying its own dissolution, a normal person with an ego

01:00mind will call him a crazy person. Right. But for him, that is a true love. So in that

01:06sense, are you also that crazy in thinking that way?

01:13I could say yes. I could also say no. But I'm not really sure whether that would be

01:23useful. Because you see, these are words that are recycled so much in the spiritual literature

01:34that just because one is habituated to reading them, one starts feeling one knows them.

01:43Now, just because one is habituated to something does not mean that one knows that thing.

01:52For example, you could be habituated to passing by an electric pole or a slaughterhouse or

02:07a hospital or a funeral ground or something every day. Right. Because you are very habituated

02:14to it, it arouses no curiosity when you encounter it again and again daily. But that does not

02:25really mean that we fully understand this object we are perceiving. I'm just trying

02:36to play the devil's advocate. You asked a beautiful question. I just want to add some

02:40value because what you are saying is already at a certain level of thought. And if we are

02:47here, we better attempt something higher. So that's where I'm coming from. So, you know,

02:56you read Kabir Sahab, you read Rumi and you read the words of the saints and you come

03:04across such phrases, divine craziness and seeking joy in one's own inner depth. And

03:18they say it with such conviction and such simplicity and such obviousness that we start

03:25feeling that it's something very straightforward, no? Because they are putting it as an obvious

03:32fact of life. They are looking at it as directly, as simply and as clearly as one looks at as the

03:42teacup on the table. But we must also remember that just because they are able to articulate

03:49it in such simple terms, it does not mean the matter itself is very simple. This is where

03:57we can often be deceived, no? Let's say there is the Rishi from the Upanishads and he very

04:06simply and succinctly says Aham Brahmasmi. Now that is something that spontaneously arising

04:16from his life, he has paid the price, he knows a few things and from there it is something

04:24very ordinary for him to say Aham Brahmasmi. Yes. And if he looks at you, even to you,

04:31he will say Tattvamasi. Yes. But that is his prerogative to say. He is the one authorized

04:42to say that. He is not stating an objective fact. Yes. If I say here to my right is a wall,

04:54if the two are standing next to each other, then this statement as an objective fact would apply

05:00to you as well, no? If there is a wall to my right, then there has to be a wall to your right as well.

05:06Yes. What I say then can be repeated by you without any risk of going wrong. Yes. But if

05:15I say Aham Brahmasmi and you too say Aham Brahmasmi, then there is a problem. Because

05:22it's a difference, yes. There is a huge difference because it is not an objective fact we are

05:27articulating here. Yes. One has to earn the right to use these words. Yes. Because reality is

05:35subjective. Yes. Because the ego has to be at its minimal before it can utter absolute truths.

05:47Truths, yes. Now if the ego stands where it is and yet it picks up words and starts

05:56repeating them and owning them, then there might be a bit of a problem.

06:03So the craziness of love, well you know we have to be very cautious of it because

06:08love gives you an experience of craziness even if it is the very common, ordinary, vulgar,

06:17egoistic love. Even in that people experience a certain craziness. Look at a 15 year old

06:25going crazy in love. Yes. You know he is looking at his classmate or somebody and he is saying this

06:34is the purest and truest kind of love possible. Yes. And in the age of social media that's

06:41happening all the more you go to Instagram or somewhere and you will have all 12 years,

06:4714 year olds, 16 year olds, all of them are going crazy in true love. Yes. So when that is the

06:56situation of the words crazy and love and truth, how do I say that I am crazy in love? If I say

07:06that then I run the risk of being misinterpreted. I also run the risk of being misclassified.

07:15No? So what does this word crazy mean for you? What does the dissolution of ego mean to you?

07:23I think these are more useful queries. This is what one should go into. No? What is the real

07:30lived meaning of dissolution? Otherwise d-i-s-s-o-u-l-i-t-i-o-n makes no difference,

07:40makes no difference. We may keep saying E-G-O, E-G-O all our life and yet have no awareness of

07:48E-G-O. Is it there in your breath? Is the dissolution something that you are living every

07:57moment? That's what one has to honestly investigate and that's what spirituality is really all about.

08:07Yes. To go into the facts, bare facts of one's life. Yes. Bare facts. How is it with me? It does

08:18not matter much how it was with the Rishis and the Rumi's and the Kabir's. Yes. That won't help you

08:28because you have your own life to live. Yes. A beautiful verse from a seer poet is obviously a

08:36thing of delight but by itself it cannot change your life. Yes. But you can always relate to

08:45those words. No, no, no. Don't try to relate to them. Don't try to relate to them because relationship

08:51is very, very dimension specific. Please understand. How can a thing on the earth relate to

08:58something in the sky? That is beyond, yeah. That is beyond but that's the E-G-O's aspiration to

09:06remain where it is, to remain where it is and yet strike a relationship with the highest.

09:11Yes. And that is a great problem. If you want to relate to the sky then rise to the sky.

09:22That is the only honest way of relating. If you remain where you are and the E-G-O

09:26does not want to change itself because there is comfort in where it is and there is security in

09:31where it is. Remaining where it is, if it wants to have a relationship with something of the beyond

09:37then this may not be very honest. So do not just try to relate. Try to rise.

09:45Try to rise. That is more important. More important. Thank you so much.

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