Neither exact, nor perfect; just life, simple and direct

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

Questioner (Q): What is the exact way to live life?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Are we right now living inexactly? Is there something wrong right now? Do you want to correct it?

What do you mean by exact? What is missing that you want to achieve? What exactness are you running after? When you are asking a question, I am listening, I am responding, then you are listening, this is life, what else is life?

What do you mean by the exact way?

Whatever there is, is there right now, there is nothing apart from it, where will you search for exactness?

But I understand why you are asking such a question. You are asking such a question because role models, ideas of perfection, and ideals, have been inserted into your mind. You have been constantly made to think that there is something missing with this and that can be achieved from somewhere else, that a right way, a correct way, an exact way lies somewhere.

The exact way is this and this is all that there is. If you are listening attentively right now, are you? This is exact. This is exactly the way. This is perfection. Absolute perfection. Nothing missing from it. Don’t…