Acharya Prashant: The question is, “If I stay wild in the society, there would be repercussions; what to do?”
Who is thinking this? From where is this thought arising? Is this a thought coming from the unconditioned mind or is it the teaching of the society that is talking? You see, one fundamental thing about the mind must be understood. One state of mind can never know another state. It can imagine but never know. Being what we are, we try to imagine and project how would it be when we would change.
Suppose I am a constrained one. I am someone who has lived in boundations, restrains, limits, all his life. Now, who am I? I am the one who is conditioned to think in a limited way. Right? That’s what I am. And all of my thoughts are coming from the same source that gave me my limitations. So, that’s who I am.
Being what I am, I try to think, I try to imagine, how would it be, upon liberation. Now, someone who has been taught to like limits, what would he feel about freedom, limitlessness? What would he feel? I am this one. And this one, is a product of social circumstances, all the evolutionary conditioning. Being this one, I try to think about this one (the other one). Now, do I know this (other) one?
Being a limited mind, I try to speculate about limitlessness. Who is the one who is imagining, who is the one who is speculating?
Listener: The conditioned one.
