Question: Acharya Ji Pranaam! Once we are attached to anything, there is so much of suffering.
Please help me understand this.
Acharya Prashant Ji: End of suffering is just an idea for us. Let’s rather talk about suffering – that is a fact, that is our daily experience. The questioner is quoting me from somewhere. The quote runs this way, “Once you are attached to nothing, that is the end of suffering.”
I am saying that the end of suffering is a mere concept. Do you know the end of suffering? Do you have any closeness or any familiarity with it? So don’t talk about the ‘end of suffering’, talk only about ‘suffering’.
You know suffering. Where does it come from? Where does it come from? It comes from pursuing paths that lead to nowhere, rather they just turn around at some point and bring you back where you started from.
That is what is called in India as – a cycle of birth and death.
You thought that the path you are taking is leading you somewhere, but it’s kind of circular. It took you this way, this way, this way, this way and it brought you back. And at no point was there a clear U-turn. There was no way for you to clearly be warned at some time that you are just going to return to the beginning point.
