Love yourself enough to say that you deserve the ultimate Truth

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

Question (Q): How does an identity-bound person get true freedom?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Who is asking this? The identity-bound person herself? Now, the identity will never ask “How to get rid of identities?” Who is asking this? You need to respond.

Listener 1 (L1): I was just saying that this is a kind of question that is somehow clear on the surface level but still there is some confusion.

AP: How is it clear? Alright, tell me. How?

L1: How freedom would come if I am a bound person? I am still confused.

AP: Do you want freedom or do you want this knowledge? What do you want?

L1: Freedom.

AP: Then how will this knowledge help? What you want to know is when it will happen. How will it happen? Do you want this information about the future or do you want freedom? What do you want?

L1: Freedom.

AP: And freedom is not this knowledge — when it comes and how does it come?

(From this point onwards, speaker will use mango as a metaphor for Freedom.)