How to be spiritual with worldly responsibilities

Acharya Prashant
4 min readJun 13, 2020

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

Questioner: Sir, during the process of spiritual sadhana, we have some responsibilities related to both finances as well as physical availability. How to tackle this?

Acharya Prashant: Who are you?

Q: Incomplete consciousness.

AP: So what is your responsibility?

Q: To get completion.

AP: Full stop.

Q: So, what to do of the responsibilities?

AP: What is your responsibility?

Q: To get completion.

AP: Full stop.

Never forget who you are. If you will forget who you are, you will take up false responsibilities.

Are you getting it?

Q: Isn’t the other’s completeness, also our responsibility?

AP: How do you know about the other’s completion, when you have not fulfilled your basic responsibility towards yourself? Is it not great arrogance and story-telling?

When you do not know what is your responsibility, and what will bring fulfillment to you, what do you know about others and others’ fulfillment?

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