As your mind changes every moment, so do you || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Question: Sir, you said our actions define who we are. But our actions also keep changing from time to time.

A person may be sleeping in this session and be very active in the next. So, can it be said that the definition of who we are keeps changing?

Speaker: Yes! It keeps changing from moment to moment. You are not one entity. You are continuously changing. And it is a rare individual who can maintain an integrity amidst this change.

Do you understand integrity? It means to bring together, to create oneness. It is a rare individual whose mind does not really keep changing but has a constancy underneath. As far as most of us are concerned, our minds keep fluctuating moment to moment. You may be extremely attentive right now – see how you are reclining forward and you want to talk – but were you like this at every particular moment of this session?

No.

So, our minds keep changing moment to moment. And whatever is the quality of our mind at a particular moment, that is what we are. Nothing else.