Questioner(Q): What is the process of clarity? Is it just listening with immersion and no resistance? What is Truth? How we decide it?
Acharya Prashant (AP): Listening without effort, plus if there is Truth in what you hear, there is change and transformation, and that Truth becomes the master. We will take it step by step.
What is the process of clarity? So, there is a lot that the mind has acquired. Whatever has come to the mind has come with a promise. What is the promise? The promise is, "I’ll give you peace", that can have different names; love, joy, whatever”. But the promise is always there. The thing has been accepted by the mind without that promise.
The mind’s whole objective in accepting conditioning is that conditioning is worthwhile, otherwise the mind won’t accept conditioning. Mind feels inadequate, mind feels incomplete. Whosoever promises it completion, the mind latches onto it. It, him, her, whatever.
Whenever from any direction, there’s the faintest possibility of emancipation, of freedom from that incompleteness, inadequacy, the mind says, “Please, give it to me. Whatever it is, give it to me”. That is the promise that the mind is holding on to.
So, what is the process of clarity? The process of clarity is, ‘I accepted something based on a promise. Is the promise being met? That’s it, ask. This ideology came to my life with the promise that it will give me peace.
