Questioner (Q): Sir, I heard a talk of yours on ‘thinking’. The talk of yours made me go back to thinking all that happened in life, and really, is it the right endeavor even?
Acharya Prashant (AP): It cannot be an endeavour. The keyword is ‘fully’, when I say that you must think fully, the keyword is ‘fully’. The keyword is not ‘think’. I am saying: ‘Think fully’. The accent, the stress is on ‘fully’, not on ‘think’.
When I am saying that ‘think fully’, I do not mean think more and more. I mean; think from a point of fullness. I do not mean; think continuously. That will just load the mind.
I am saying; ‘Think fearlessly’. And when thought is fearless, when thought is arising not from a need to secure yourself then thought serves its function, its material function, and disappears. And thought does have a material function, who can deny that? You need thought to put a fly-over together. You need thought to have this camera, this cloth, this building.
Q: This session itself.
AP: This session itself. They cannot happen without thought. But where is that thought coming from? Is that thought coming from a need to secure myself? If that is coming from there then the thought will be unending. But if the thought is coming from incompleteness then the thought will not contribute to completeness. Then the thought is not really needed. It is just an instrument.
