Do not let your inner welfare be conditional. If your inner sense of well-being is dependent on favorable external conditions, then it is a very sorry state to be in, because conditions are never under our control and, I am saying, I will allow myself to feel alright only upon the fulfillment of such and such external conditions.
It’s almost as if your heart is beating outside of you, and the heart has a will of its own—it can walk away, it can stop beating, or, worse still, it can start beating for somebody else. You do not want that state, right?
Sadly, we are too eager to come to that state—all of us. And we find it quite fashionable to announce that “I have found my half, my better half”—or worse half, whatever.
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
