How will I dissolve?

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

Questioner (Q): How will I dissolve?

Acharya Prashant (AP): By watching the one who wants to dissolve.

Who is the one who wants to dissolve? And why does he wants to dissolve? And if he is really serious and honest why has he already not dissolved till now? Surely, There is somebody keeping him protected and safe. Who is protecting him? Who is keeping him safe? Maybe the one who says I want to dissolve is equally the one who is keeping himself safe.

See, there are pleasures in remaining as one is. The ego does not exist for anything. It exists because the ‘I’ derives pleasure from its usual activities. As long as you are not fed up with those pleasures; as long as you do not see through those pleasures why would there be any dissolution at all? The dissolution will not happen because you will not allow it to happen.

Dissolution is a heavy word. What you are actually saying is — I do not want to remain as I am. Right? But why are you the way you are? Because there is pleasure in being the way you are. Unless you address those pleasures, you will not let any change happen. And change cannot be forced.

Change is a byproduct of seeing or realization.