Liberation, confusion, cognitive dissonance

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

Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, if Liberation is the ultimate destiny, why don’t we get it naturally?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Liberation is Freedom, right? Liberation is Freedom. So you are free to not to be free. You are already Liberated.

It is because you are Liberated, that you can choose to remain not Liberated.

Good! You will get what you order. Everything is there on the menu. And the system respects your choice. The day you will choose Liberation, Liberation is yours. Till then , keep feasting on the various delicacies of life, and keep paying the bill. On that menu, everything is very highly chargeable, except for Liberation.

We often judge things by the price, don’t we? Suffering comes at a very high price.

Q: Acharya Ji, how to remove confusion from life?

AP: Were you totally confused, would you know that you were confused? Who is the one who knows confusion? Is he too confused? And if he too is confused, then how does he know that he is confused?

For you to strongly assert that you are confused, there must surely be some point in you, that is not confused.