Laziness is a dirty trick to defy the Truth

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

Question (Q): What is Life? How do you call somebody alive?

Acharya Prashant (AP): A dewdrop vanishes in no time, does it have a life?

Talk about yourself. What do you call as ‘your life’, ‘your aliveness’? We have this instrument here. Anybody can push the buttons and get it to operate in the way they want to. You can record the noise of the marketplace in this, and you can record the most beautiful music in it. It’s all the same. It does something. It moves, it reacts. Would you call it alive?

Listeners (L): No.

AP: Why not?

L: Because it is just reacting, not responding.

AP: Then how is eating, moving, breathing, a sign of life?

L: Sir, the machine does not have consciousness.

AP: What do you mean by consciousness?

Why doesn’t it have consciousness? If I toss it up, it goes up to a certain point, and then it comes back. It seems it is making a decision to come back. How is it not conscious?

It is making a decision, something is happening. Just as you wake up, sleep, eat, speak, similarly, this too is doing something.