Questioner: Acharya Ji, what does it mean to be spiritual?
Acharya Prashant: It merely means that you are not being stupid. Is it necessary that you must at least be sometimes stupid? Is there such great attraction in stupidity?
If water and poison are kept in front of you, ten cups of water and ten cups of poison, and you have to make ten choices, what does ‘Spirituality’ mean? Ten out of ten times I will pick water.
It is as simple as that.
Now, do you want to say, “Sometimes you know, for a change, we must pick poison. There is nothing absolute. And Spirituality is just an incremental improvement upon worldliness”? No.
Spirituality means – make the right decision, every time.
Even if you pick poison once, it’s curtains for you. It’s like batting. How many times can you get out? Just once. Now would you say, “Must we never get bowled out? You know, five out of six balls I will play rightly, but one ball per over, I want to see my stumps uprooted”?
