Question: Why does it happen that the movements and gestures that we make in our daily life is what others make perception of ours. For example in the past two hours I have been listening to you and I can’t stop noticing the fact that you are moving your legs?
Acharya Prashant: It happens because we are so bound to the senses, that we can see nothing but the body. How do I look at a man or a woman? How do I look at him? I look at him only in terms of what is visible to the eyes, or what can be touched; sensory perception. But if that be the case, then there is nothing except material. And that is pretty insulting. That is as good as saying that right now I am talking to a Sixty Kg mass. Because if there is only the material, then material has no consciousness. Material only has weight, color, smell and other physical properties.
But that is the way we approach any human being – only in terms of what appears, not what is real, not what is actual and valuable. And that reflects in all our choices. How do you choose, for example a girlfriend? Belonging to this part of the country, it would be very very difficult for you to choose a very dark woman. It is a particular set of features that you crave for. And that is what you call as valuable and beautiful. Is that not so? Because that is all that you can see, in a human being – the body.
Let me give you another example. Upcoming engineers, all of you here, what do you ride? Bikes, cars. Yes, you do that, Right? There would be quite a few of you who would not even know, how much torque, or the maximum torque, that their bike can provide. And there would be even fewer, who would have seen their car engine from inside. Even mechanical engineers are there who would have never seen a piston. But, what have you seen? What have you seen?
