To know your intentions, watch your actions

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

Listener: We did this play on –‘What is the intention?’

What is the intention? We live more in the conscious rather than the sub-conscious, right? So can we figure our our intention using only the conscious mind?

Acharya Prashant: From the conscious you will know the sub-conscious, the unconscious, everything. What else is the function of the root, it shows up as the fruit. So go and look at the fruit and you will know the root. Fruit is nothing but an extension of the root. So, if you can look at the conscious, you will find that it is just an extension of the unconscious.

The conscious mind is only an expression of the unconscious mind. It is not different. If you are not careful enough, you will start saying the fruit is different from the root. They are not different. They are organically linked.

The root is becoming the fruit. Similarly, the unconscious is bit showing up as the conscious. So, pay attention to the conscious. Pay attention to whatever is going on and you will figure out what is hiding.

So, just keep looking at your thoughts-actions, thoughts-actions and you will know your intention. In fact, it was a very nice revelation in the first scene of…