Questioner: Acharya Ji, the mind gets influenced by the social media very easily. How can we protect ourselves from its bad influences?
Acharya Prashant: Mind is nothing but an aggregation of influences upon you. Who are you? We have defined that at the beginning of the Satsang.
You are the thirsty one. The thirsty one is influenced by the mind, by the aggregation of the influences, because the ones influencing you promise you relief. Just see that they cannot deliver what they promise. That’s all. You won’t need to listen to them anymore.
And if the next question is: “To whom then we listen?”
If you are not listening to the wrong ones, then you are already being powered by the Right One. Otherwise, how would you not listen to the wrong one? From where would the courage come to call the wrong as ‘wrong’?
Are Facebook, or Twitter, or LinkedIn the culprits? Do they have an intention? Do they have an agency even? Are they conscious entities? Are they?
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