What is right and what is wrong? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Speaker: Breaking the question into two simpler parts, one is- all of us have positives and negatives, strengths and weaknesses. How to enhance the strengths and diminish the weaknesses. We will look into this.And second is- I know what is right but when it comes to the moment of happening, I can’t do much about it. I know that I am wrong, but I am short-tempered. I know that this the case, yet when it is happening, I find myself powerless. To how many of us does this happen?

(Some listeners raise their hands).

We will take first part first. How do you know what is right or what is wrong? How do you know what is positive and what is negative? Before I say that it is right and it is wrong, I must first know. Right? How do you know? There are many ideas in our mind regarding what is wrong and what is right. Is there anybody here, who does not have concepts regarding what is right and what is wrong? Is one born with those concepts?

Listener: No, Sir.

Speaker: Then how do you know what is wrong and what is right, what is positive and what is negative, what is good and what is bad?

Listener 1: Thoughts.