How to help others see the truth? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2014)

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Question: Sir, is it possible to help those who are deeply blind, even if they do not agree or acknowledge that they are blind? Is it possible to help such people?

Speaker: Alok is asking that is it possible to really help blind people, people who are not prepared to acknowledge the fact, people who are not seeing the reality. Obviously, here he is using ‘blindness’ as a metaphor.

Blindness itself creates a situation where it will be helped. Blindness is suffering. And our essential nature is neither to suffer nor to be blind. Are you getting it?

The essential core that we all are, that is not blind, That ‘knows’. Even the person who is pretending to be completely blind ‘knows’ deep within because it is our nature to know. And that is why there is suffering. Because It is our nature to know, to understand, to be aware. But on the surface, what are we doing? We are living an ignorant life, we are telling ourselves that it is alright to act blindly. We have built some kind of defense of concepts, principles and traditions around ourselves. We have somehow justified our blindness, that it is alright to be blind.