Remain easy, remain free, and you won’t need any confidence || (2016)

Questioner (Q): What is meant by saying that confidence is fear? And secondly, does it practically help me to know this?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Both are related. You see if you really come to understand it, then the question of the application of your understanding becomes redundant. Because whatever you do is anyway an application of the mind. It’s like asking that "If I lose disease, if I regain health, what would be the practical application of that health?"

No particular application. Because, whatever you do, you do either in your state of disease or your state of health. If you are healthy, then whatever you do will be a healthy act. Whatever you do. Hence, no particular application. It’s like asking the doctor that "If my eyes get better, what is it that I will be able to see more clearly?" Well, nothing in particular. Nothing in particular! Because whatever you look at, you anyways look at it through your eyes. And so, if your eyes get better, whatever you look at, you will be able to see with more clarity. So, if you understand, then whatever you do, whether it is about tying a shoelace, or cleaning a fan, or driving a car, or chumming with a kid, or playing in a field, working in an office, mingling with friends, love, life, livelihood, everything would be in the light of what you are. It always is, is it not?

So, no particular application is there.

If somebody asks, "What will I do with this understanding?" The answer is, "Whatever you do." "What will I do with this understanding?"