Choicelessness is only for those who choose rightly || Acharya Prashant, on Ashtavakra Gita (2018)

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Rememberance is your nature, you decide to not to forget.

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We are talking of remaining equally secure in this and that. What is this and what is that? Pain is this and pleasure is that. What is this and that? Hope is this and disappointment is that. What is this and that? Life is this and death is that. In this universe of your own making, this and that are integral. You cannot have the universe without this and that. Don’t ask for the impossible. If the body is there, pleasure and pain will be there. The importance that you gave to this and that didn’t just happen on its own. The process had your consent. Sometimes you actively chose to give importance; sometimes the choice was passive. But that is also the best news, because we do have a choice. And if we can make a bad choice, we can make a good one as well. Do the right thing before you can be a non-doer. Now that you have been doing the wrong things, wake up to your power to choose, your right to choose, and do a few things right. If you can make a choice to become engaged and involved and emotional, can’t you make a choice to not to become engaged and involved and emotional? Or do you have control only one way? You are very good when it comes to making all the noise and all the mischief. Then you are very alert and energetic. But when it comes to doing the right thing, you say, “You see, I am dull and foolish and I don’t understand anything!” When it comes to all the nonsense, see how you succeed, don’t you? You want to go and create chaos. You want to go and satisfy your lust, and see how you find out ways, don’t you? See the things that you covet and chase and see how you devise clever mechanisms to get what you want to. Restfulness is your nature. You cannot become restless without your consent. Discover your choice. Better still; admit your choice. Admitting choice entails responsibility. If you are a human being, you have no option but to live rightly; otherwise there is suffering. What is the wrong choice? Anything that involves helplessness is the wrong choice; that is the definition. When rest is your nature and the only truth, from where has restlessness come? Obviously it has to be a silly fabrication, it cannot exist; it is a myth. You never forget, you decide to forget. And if you can decide to forget, you can equally well decide to not to forget.

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dwet me this that pain pleasure jab tak body he rhege koi choice nhi lekin jab hm wrong right me right chunte jate he viprit parithitiyo me bhi to ek din choiceless ho jate he Jo zindgi se nhi bhagta unhe zindgi mil zati he

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