Questioner (Q): I see myself escaping in all possible ways. I have observed that reading too has become a tool for the mind, to escape seeing itself. I have been seeing this for the past three days. What should I do?
Acharya Prashant (AP): Escaping in what way? What do you mean by ‘escaping’? What is ‘escaping’? What image do you have of escaping? Escaping to where? You are with an object A, you move to an object B. Is that an escape? You move from object B to object C. Is that some kind of a return?
What is escaping? How do you know that you must be with object A, and not with B? How do you label something as the right action and the wrong action? How do you label something as the right place and the wrong place? “I must be here, and if I am not here then I have surely escaped to the wrong place.” How do you know that?
Q: For example, I am surfing Facebook. And I am looking only at those things which are distracting me. I consider that as ‘escaping’. Escaping from knowing myself.
AP: What else could you have done? Do you have an alternative? Was there something else that you could have done? Any better plans?
Q: I could have tried not to escape.
