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. Freedom is his very…

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…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): Sir, is there an absolute notion of what is right and what is wrong? Acharya Prashant (AP): All rights and wrongs, everything in the universe, exists for you. So, all rightness is with respect to…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): Is pleasure a necessity for humans? Do we as human beings need pleasure for survival, to be sane? Acharya Prashant (AP): What is pleasure, first of all? See, we all operate at a certain level…

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant. Questioner (Q): If awareness is our true nature, then why don’t we have a natural inclination towards it? Why do we get so easily overpowered by our bodily tendencies? Acharya Prashant (AP): Awareness might be your nature…