How to go closer to the Truth?

Know yourself equal in pain and in pleasure, equal in hope and in disappointment, equal in life and in death, and complete as you are, you can go to your rest.

~ Ashtavakra Gita (Chapter 5, Verse 4)

Question: How can we in daily-life practice this and go closer to the Truth? Is that through sitting, walking, working, meditation? Is that through living mindfulness in the present moment?

Acharya Prashant: You gave me a bad taste at the end of your question. All else was proceeding almost rightly. ‘Living mindfulness in the present moment’ — bad words! Avoid them.

You’re asking for a method. You’re asking, “How can we in daily-life practice this and go closer to the Truth? Is that through sitting, walking, working meditation?” The method is already there in the verse, in the quote. Please read carefully.

“Equal in pain and in pleasure, equal in hope and in disappointment, equal in life and in death, and complete as you are, you can go to your rest.”

What is the method? This equality is the method. But you’ll have to understand.

Equality does not mean deadness here. To a cave, to the insides of a cave, day and night are equal. We are not talking of that dark, damp, dead situation. Not that kind of equality. To the dead man, beauty and ugliness…