Right & Wrong || Acharya Prashant

You must have heard of Roomie the Sufi poet and there’s a beautiful line in which he says something like this to his lover that there is a field beyond right and wrong. I’ll meet you there. What is this right and wrong? Nothing but mischief of man’s mind. And because it’s mischief of man’s mind, it keeps changing. What is right today will not be right tomorrow. What was right yesterday is considered so wrong today.

What is right even today in one country or one religion is very wrong in another country and another religion. Nothing. Artificial man-made productions like goods coming out of a factory. Their design keeps changing all the time. Something is in fashion today, tomorrow it goes out of fashion. That’s what is right and wrong. How can you take these things seriously? To live in your essential nature is the only right. And this is a secret that entire existence knows. Live as you are and you are all right. And try to become something else. Try to wear a mask. Try to make yourself up and you have wronged.