The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): How can I know what is my real identity? Acharya Prashant (AP): What’s your name? Q: Siddhartha. AP: Siddhartha, am I answering someone, am I replying to someone who does not ‘know’ his real identity…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): Sir, mystery is unknown, and our mind is running behind them to solve them. Why? Acharya Prashant (AP): The mind, rather the ego, does not acknowledge anything as a mystery. Mystery by definition is something…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): Sir, does fulfillment come by experiencing everything completely? Acharya Prashant (AP): What is everything? Do you have to go somewhere and experience it, or is it anyway happening daily? Whenever somebody says, “I need to…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Question (Q): Should we delay our gratification? If yes, then to what extent and for how long? Acharya Prashant (AP): By delay, you mean time, to put it ahead in time. Man uses time itself for gratification…

Question (Q): Isn’t it contradictory that I need to discipline myself in order to realize Freedom? Acharya Prashant (AP): The one, who has a strong sense of bondage, only he needs to be freed; who else? The one who is abiding in freedom requires no freedom. …

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): So let us just talk about what is it to be human. What is it to be human? To be human is to be two and yet be one. To be human is to…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): There is this question about direct observation and how the world when ‘directly’ observed appears muddled up, appears quite confusing. There is a question that what is all this. One of the aspects of…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): How to know whether I am aware? Acharya Prashant (AP): What you call as ‘knowing’ is just thinking. It is a mental activity. Do you know of anything that is beyond the mind? You know…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Acharya Prashant (AP): Manoj asks, ‘Given that there is so much competition, how do I plan my career?’ Manoj, can I solve a problem if I do not understand it? Can I solve a problem if I…