Celebrate duality, that's all that there is || Acharya Prashant (2013)

Questioner: I have fear and greed, thus a life of duality. How long to live like this? Should I try to force a change?

Speaker: There is no other life and duality is wonderful. Duality is sacred. There is nothing reprehensible about duality. Can there be duality without the non-dual? Can there be duality? What lies at the source of all duality? It’s just that we do not see the imprint of the source upon all dualistic events and that is the only thing that is needed, duality will still exist. Without duality, how will we talk? Without duality, there is no Prashant and no Mudit otherwise, there is just the ocean, the beautiful ocean and nobody to watch the ocean.

You know what is duality? Duality is truth wanting to know itself. Duality is the source enjoying itself by dividing itself into two. That is what duality is. There is nothing evil about duality. It’s wonderful. Without you how will the source know itself? Without you, how will the source know what is it to fail, what is it to suffer? So, you are important. All our sufferings, failings, all imperfections are important. They are alright; otherwise there is just ‘shoonya’. What else is there? Truth will become so bored. That also needs some spice, some gossip and you are that gossip. That’s your role in scheme of things. If there is no duality, what will the truth do? Alone, absolutely alone. He too needs a partner but from where to get a partner? Because the truth is alone, there is nothing else. So, it divides itself into two. And then there is Mudit Ji, and there is family and there is the world. So, two are there and then two raised to the power n. Now, there is some spice, some this and that. Its alright. All this is ‘leela’. There is no reason to feel small about it. It is not at all small. Just don’t forget what all this is. Indulge yourself fully but remember what all this really is. Get fully engrossed but remember what is really happening. Don’t forget that.