The more you trust your seeing, the more you see that youre seeing

Question: Sir, could there be an alternative to fear? Like I see in my life that I have been running after something and I realized that this thing is not fulfilling. But, I was so much influenced by the society that I ran after some other thing and again found only deception. But, like whenever I go somewhere, something is being given to the mind. At that time, I was totally ignorant that I took so much of it, but, I am not sure that I am still ignorant or not because anywhere we go, something is there, some information is coming. From where it comes, we don’t even know. How can we be absolutely free of all illusions?

Acharya Prashant: Let it come. When the eye is healthy, it looks at different things and knows them to be different. That is the function of the eye, to look at differences and know them to be different.

So, these different situations, these different voices and these different influences will keep coming to you; simply look at them with an open eye. When the eye shows you black, you don’t really have to think and decide that it is black.

There is a black board and there is a white background, you don’t have to come to a decision that these two are different. Even if you don’t name them, or name them differently, yet you know that the two are not the same, that’s the function of the healthy eye, right? It helps you see differences even without memory.

So, ‘see differences — without memory.’ You may not have been trained in something, it might be coming in front of you for the first time; then you may not know its name, then you may not know its history, but still you will know that the thing ‘is’. Similarly, let the mind be such that it is able to perceive without memory, perceive without labels.