Does meditation lead to a passive life? || Acharya Prashant (2017)

Questioner: When we meditate regularly, we start losing let’s say the desires, or I want to do this and goals and everything. But, then it’s kind of equal to, to become passive in life. So, can you say something about that? Because being passive also feels like…

Acharya Prashant: You see sir, had you not been told in advance that the so-called meditation will turn off your desires. Are you sure, you would experience a diminishing of desires?

I repeat. Even before you entered the process of meditation, had you not been told what the fruits of meditation are? Would you still have experienced those fruits?

If desires are really gone then you know that, that which you are calling as passivity, is the greatest joy of relaxation.

Desires are very much there. The so-called meditation is only used to put a veneer on them. I assure you that, the very same meditation would fail if you are told that it fails. You are told it succeeds, so it appears successful to you.

But had it really been successful? I am asking you.

Had it really been successful would you call the fruit of meditation as passivity and be worried about it?