What Are You Looking For? || Acharya Prashant

There’s a man who loves ice cream. So he goes after vanilla. After a week he gets fed up. He goes after chocolate, then strawberry, then something else. Then he gets fed up with ice cream itself. So ras malai. Then all other kinds of sweets, 40 varieties. Then he goes after cakes, then pastries, then candies. Then he’s reminded that he’s gaining weight. So he starts going after fresh fruit juices.

You know what? He’s actually after sugar. But because sugar in just one form starts getting exposed. Therefore to deceive himself he starts consuming sugar in another form. Had sugar been available only in the form of vanilla ice cream. This man would have achieved liberation very quickly because vanilla would have been exposed but vanilla very quickly becomes strawberry. Strawberry becomes chocolate. Chocolate becomes kaju burfi. Then it becomes rasgula and then it becomes some healthy option. Sugar cane juice even apple juice. So you can even claim with some kind of righteousness you know I take only healthy drinks but the fact is all that you are after is sugar.

That’s how we remain deceived all our life. See if the shape and form of the baggages won’t change. How will you continue carrying the baggage? You’re carrying it. It hurts. So how does it then continue to remain on your back and shoulders your entire life? by changing name and form and shape. Otherwise, you would have gotten rid of it just after the first few experiences.

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