What makes you reject the God standing right in front of you?

Acharya Prashant
3 min readSep 28, 2021

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

Questioner (Q): I have a surrendered mind. But if I have to choose one thing of two, then my mind interrupts, and you are saying that a surrendered mind doesn’t interpret.

Acharya Prashant (AP): So, it is not then a surrendered mind.

Surrender is not the imagination of surrender. Surrender is Surrender.

Don’t ever fall into this trap — We try to imagine what it would be like when we are free. Now being bonded, fully imagining yourself to be in bondage, how can you even imagine freedom? And then you will imagine freedom in terms of bondage because you are the bonded one. And seeing this, then that freedom will appear very scary to you. So the net result will be that you will want to avoid freedom.

We all have an image of Truth; there is nobody who has no image of God. There is nobody who has no image of Freedom.

And the image of freedom prevents you from being free right now.

Do you see this?

Two or three days back I asked — What makes us reject the God standing right in front of us? — The fact that we believe in God.

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