Right & Wrong || Acharya Prashant

The title truth without apology attracts me. As I was reading chapter 138, it stated, “It’s far better to crawl on the right path than to fly down the wrong one.” Can we then say righteousness is greatness? We are not talking of being righteous. Being right and being righteous are different things. Right and wrong are defined by the one who is the experiencer of those things. We are not talking morality here.

We are not talking religious commandments here. We are talking utility here. We are talking experience here. If the experiencer operates from the wrong center, the center of blindness, the experience will be of suffering. Right? It is in this context that one is being called as right and the other is being called as wrong. There is no other criteria. So the experiencer has to be seen. Seeing the experiencer is what is being called as right. Acting blindly is what is being termed as wrong.

Nothing else, nothing, nothing beyond that. No complications here. And when you are operating from the right center, then even if there is a particular way of operation which has been referred to as crawling, it is all right. And when you’re operating from the wrong center, even if you seem to be flying, that that won’t help you because the quality of experience would still not be something you can accept. Our nature is joy. If the experience is not rooted in joy, then life is being wasted. Spirituality wants to prevent that waste from happening. That’s all.