Question: Sir,if Peace is something that the mind can never know then what is the point of all this enquiry?
Acharya Prashant: What is enquiry? How does knowing happen? Does enquiry mean that one keeps asking questions? Does enquiry mean that one is looking for particular answers within obviously the framework of the question asked? If that were so then Anubhav (referring to the questioner) here would not be asking what he is asking. What is it that you have asked Anubhav? What is it that you have asked here?
Let me read out exactly what he is saying, “By getting an answer for a question, more questions arise. I try to calm my mind but the restlessness still remains for getting an answer. Question and answers; and no answer is final, every answer leads to the next question. So is enquiry possible by asking questions? Will any question ever be the final question to be asked?”
But we ask, we talk and lot of our education has been about encouraging the student to ask questions. And in asking question there is a certain assertion of the self—I exist, I am asking, I want to know. To not to ask a question feels like an abnegation of the self to us. If I’m not asking a question, I’m not doing anything to help myself, right?
If I have a query, if the mind is restive, then what do I do? Ask, seek, strive. If in this situation it occurs to us that there are solutions that can be obtained without seeking, without striving; we don’t want to accept, it’s a little humiliating. Even answers should come to us, even peace of mind should come to us through strife.
