For those who want to cut through their entanglements

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

Question: Sir, our perception of life defines the goal of life and that defines the path that we choose, and that ultimately becomes our lifestyle. This leads to many problems. Consciously or unconsciously we have developed our philosophy of life from outside influence and now there is not enough time to ponder over each and every aspect of life and rectify all the wrongs that we have developed. Please throw some light on the philosophy of life that is the best one and causes the least entanglements.

Acharya Prashant:

In your situation, the best philosophy of life is the ‘philosophy of negation’.

You are talking about, “External influences and how they have determined your definition of life itself and your goals and your path towards those goals and how those external influences ultimately become your lifestyle, your day-to-day living.” So you already see that the external influences are causing you a lot of problems.

Hence, it should be easy for you to proceed via the way of negation. You are saying, “You do not have enough time to ponder over each and every aspect of life and rectify all the wrongs.”