The real being stands behind the duality

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

Question: How does one deal with orthodoxy, stupidity, and foolishness? How does one deal with orthodox parents and spouses?

The foolish will always hunt the wise. If the wise recede to the forest, the foolish will condemn them for that. If the wise stay and fight, they shall be condemned for that. Condemnation is certain. The dead and the alive cannot be together. The dead is too afraid of the living.

The blind and the seeing are not equal and because the blind cannot see, they will strike down everything, be it ugly or beautiful.

One cannot help but confront. An honest man, a free man can only be a renegade in this world.

Acharya Prashant: You are very right about this non-co-existence of the false and the truth.

Let me just add that truth and falseness, blind and seeing, dead and alive, wise and foolish are not categories of human beings. These are categories of mental states. In other words, the person is not wise, and the person is not a fool either. Both these are mere ego-states, and the real being stands behind both these states.

There are in fact only two categories: waking and sleeping. Sleeping is seeing dreams of a thousand…