Should one want liberation? || Acharya Prashant, on Vivekchuramani (2018)

Mumukshatva is the burning desire to free oneself by realizing one’s true self from all bondages, from that of egotism to that of identification with the body, which are bondages imagined due to ignorance.

~ Vivekchuramani (Verse 27)

Questioner: Dear Acharya Ji, Pranam. Desire seems to be the root cause of misery. Should we even desire for Liberation, Freedom, and Guru?

To have the right intention in conscience and to remain surrendered in everything we do. Is it right? Is Liberation even possible without Grace? With this, I do not justify living a lazy life.

Acharya Prashant: Anoop (Questioner), it is not a matter of whether you 'should' desire for Liberation. It is a question of whether you ‘do’ desire for Liberation.

Desire for Liberation cannot be a teaching. It cannot be an idea implanted in your head by somebody else. It has to be your current, rather pre-existing state. Spirituality doesn’t mean that you will go to someone and he will put an idea in your head.

And how have you come to him? As a tourist comes to a watchable place.