Reality is on no side of duality, and not even in the middle

Acharya Prashant
3 min readApr 13, 2023

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

Question (Q): Dear Sir, Its all still there: the anger, the hatred, the jealousy, the envy, the pettiness and the comparing- all the works of the ego. Not only are they alive, they are kicking. Today morning I sensed them while talking to someone. Now it has left a cloud of severe depression.

Acharya Prashant (AP): What is the cause of depression? The event or the expectation that it should not have happened?

You have been building this expectation day in and day out. You read, you contemplate, you are rushing towards a target. Is it a surprise that you will be hurt?

Anger, hatred, jealousy, envy, can they go away just because the angry, hateful, jealous, envious mind wants them to go away?

Don’t set targets, your targets will come from your past — the very thing that you want to get rid of.

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Q: Dear Sir, Thanks. Its clearing.

Today I joined a group of people in Mumbai who were an “advaita” meet up group. They watched a 2 hour video of the talks of a fellow who is a follower or Ramana and Nisargadutta.

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