Feeling threatened by the world, you seek false security from the same world

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: What exactly is the difference between ‘being at the mercy of circumstances’ and ‘being a superconductor’?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Who gave you this phrase — ‘at the mercy of circumstances’? Who gave you this phrase?

Listener (L): I was listening to one of your videos where you have said that in the ‘chaos’ stage, one is at the mercy of circumstances, and one is not rooted anywhere.

AP: Where is this phrase coming from — ‘at the mercy of circumstances’? Does it come to anybody who is not in that chaos stage that you are talking of? Is it a spiritual phrase — ‘at the mercy of circumstances’?

When you say, “At the mercy of circumstances,” there are two things that are contained in it. One, the world is a hostile place. Second, that you are being affected by that hostile place. Do you see this? Are any of these statements, of the Truth? Is any of this a part of the spiritual lexicon? Do any of these apply to any mind, other than the chaotic mind?

Then, if you ask me, “What is the difference between ‘being at the mercy of circumstances’ and ‘being a superconductor?” the difference between these two…