Understanding comes first, then thoughts

Acharya Prashant
7 min readAug 3, 2017

Thought by its nature is fickle. Thought by its nature rises and falls, moves into its opposite, changes shapes, forms. No thought can ever be stable.

My question to you is, is thought your master? And if thought is indeed your master, if you have submitted yourself to thought then, by all means, keep following your thoughts, and that is what you will get. A life in which you will be thrown around along with the thoughts. A life that will be as anchor-less as thoughts are. A life that is as easily influenced by the environment as thoughts are.

Thoughts will remain, thoughts are defined to remain. Thought will move according to its own mechanism, according to its own construction. Why do you want to stay pack to the thought? It’s like riding a horse and saying, “Oh! The ride is bumpy.” Will the horse move like a Lamborghini?

You chose to ride the horse, you selected the horse. Now you are saying, “Oh! The shock absorbers are not quite fine. Hitting my bums!” You have chosen your preferred partner and that partner according to you is? The thought. Thought will do what thought does. Why is your relationship based on thought? This will be the punishment of having the relationships that are based on thought. This will be the result of having relationships that are based on calculations because thought calculates. This will be…

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