IIT Kanpur: Freedom is your nature — will you choose it?

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

Questioner (Q): If awareness is our true nature, then why don’t we have a natural inclination towards it? Why do we get so easily overpowered by our bodily tendencies?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Awareness might be your nature, but you live by your habits, not by…