Confidence - an illusion in duality || Acharya Prashant,with youth (2014)

Speaker: ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ are value judgments. I will not very quickly get into them because you are adults, mature adults. You can find out on your own. I can only be with you, and together we can discover what all this ‘confidence’ business is all about.

As you are asking this question, are you confident? Did that thought or concept come to you, ‘confidence’? Or did you just ask?

Listener 1: Just asked.

Speaker: Right? And let us say were you sitting there under extreme pressure of some kind of a situation, were it made mandatory that those who would not ask questions would face a particular punishment, or were you under the greed that if you ask a question, you would be given certain incentive then you would require confidence to ask.

Listener 1: So, it is how we perceive the situation.

Speaker: Yes! If the mind perceives the situation as frightening, then it will require…

Listener 1: Confidence