Acharya Prashant (AP): What does it mean to be free from both happiness and sadness?
It means being free from obligations to label happiness as joy.
It means being free from obligations to label sadness as a loss of self-worth.
When you say, “Happiness, is happiness”, then you are free from happiness. When you say, “Sadness is just sadness”, then you have gained freedom from sadness.
Being free from happiness and sadness does not mean that you will prohibit yourself from experiencing happiness and sadness.
Let happiness come. And when happiness comes, you must allow its unrestricted entry. This boldness, to not restrict happiness, is the Truth. It is unconditional.
You are saying, “Happiness can come in without conditions.” Now you are free of happiness, now happiness doesn’t matter to you. Are you getting this?
Questioner (Q): How do I live this way?
