Speaker: The reason why people get in love with their conditioning, they get totally attached to their slavery; the reasons are simple, they have developed an identification with that; family, society, nation, I have developed such a deep identification with that, that today if someone comes and shows their falseness, the ego gets hurt. Ego is my accumulated identities. It gets hurt, it feels bad.
“Have I been a fool all my life?”
How does it matter, may be you have been, but you have a life to live. As I said, you are young. You see, this happens to everyone. When you are born, you are pretty helpless, you are given a religion and you never asked for it. And, do you see how much your religion shapes your life? You have been given a set of beliefs, you didn’t ask for it, and what can you do. You are sure being exploited. To fill a child’s mind with beliefs is the greatest exploitation that can be done to the child but every society does that, every family does that. And then you go into a school and you are very small. You cannot do much. You do not decide the content of your text books, what do they tell you. Your brain is still not ripe, you are still small, so, you can’t discriminate. The brain is the seed of intelligence, because the brain is not yet physically mature so, the capability to be fully intelligent is not there with you. And so many things are inserted in your mind, which was alright. It is with everybody as I said. It happens with everybody, but today, you are not a small kid. Today, you can wake up, open your eyes and look at all that in your own intelligence. The hindrance to that is, you may have developed identifications. You may have been told that the false is true. You may have found that the basis of your relationships itself is false and you can’t bear that. That happens, with some people. But a deep slavery only means that the need to be free is even more. A deep disease means that you need even greater treatment. It does not mean that you should avoid treatment. Are you getting it?
