Understand the true meaning of “Living Fully”

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

Questioner: There is one thing that came up when said, “Live fully”. So, let us take an example of a bath. By “fully” what occurs to me is you can use a hundred types of products to wash your body.

Acharya Prashant (AP):

Living fully does not mean

that you have to add something more to life.

Living fully means

that life is already full and you must not be disrespectful towards that fullness.

Living fully does not mean that you have to go out and consume life. Living fully does not mean you have to enhance life.

Living fully means that whatever is, is always full.

There is nothing except fullness.

Just go close to it.

The separation is the issue.

Eating fully means that every morsel is a great opportunity to know the total. It does not mean what you are eating, how much you are eating.

Q: Yes. The volume, the quantity doesn’t matter, it is the quality that matters?

AP: Yes. It’s the quality. You see, it’s not only the religious ones and the spiritual ones…