The car manufacturer wants me to be a buyer, so I look at his car and turn into a prospective buyer.
The woman wants me to be an attending man, and I turn into an attending man as per her dictate.
I become what the other wants me to become.
If you can realize and come to this utter helplessness, you will revolt against yourself. You will then realize that all these inputs are actually assaults and invasions. You have to first acknowledge to yourself that you are neck-deep in slavery, and then there is a contradiction between the freedom of the spirit and the fact of your slavery. By spirit you are free, and in life you are in bondage. These two cannot go together.
Let there be a war.
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
