With youth: Freedom is your nature but you have forgotten it

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

Questioner (Q): Sir, you say that we have to see things, we have to analyze and see that the mind is over us, and we have to take decisions on our own, but in the real world, it will not help us. In our college itself, teachers want to make us do something, but in our inner selves we don’t want to do that, and if we don’t do that, then we are reprimanded.

Acharya Prashant (AP): I will expand and rephrase the question. What Sarthak is trying to say is, that awareness is painful. Do you see this? It’s just convenient to remain dumb and keep following what the system tells us, what society tells us, and what education tells us. The moment we open our eyes, there is the hand of the big brother to put us down. There is some external force wanting to suppress our voice. Right, Sarthak? That’s what we are doing.

Listener 1 (L1): In our inner self, we don’t want to be suppressed. We want to be happy about what we are doing.

AP: No one wants to be suppressed, you see. It’s our nature to be free.

Freedom is our very nature.

Who wants to not to be free? There is nobody who does not want to be free. Sarthak has raised such a valid point that…