Why is Trust Important? || Acharya Prashant

Q: What role does trust play in surrender? How to know who to trust?

AP: Think of a medical syringe. Don’t you trust the manufacturer and still you resist the injection? The problem is not that we don’t trust the thing. The problem is that we trust our tendency to resist pain a little more the evaluator inside you. Right? And if the internal evaluating mechanism is in itself distorted, the results it will give me will not be any good.

So before I ask is that fellow worthy of being surrendered to I must first ask who is setting my criteria is the criteria the medicine or the pain. When you think of your relationship with the syringe I’m asking you who is setting the criteria there could be someone within who might say the criteria is medicine and someone within could equally well say the criteria is pain and if the criteria changes the results change. Who is the one within that talks so much? Who is the one within that assumes my name and acts on behalf of me?|