Question: Why does the mind fear change?
Acharya Prashant:
Mind does not fear change. Mind is afraid that it will lose what it has.
Were the mind to know that it will get something more valuable as a result of change, it will welcome change. Mind’s problem is it has something which it has acquired from outside and it has no control over what it has acquired.
What does the mind have? – Object. What kind of object? – Money, Relationships, Respect, Body. All of these are subject to disappearance in time. Money came from outside and can go back, respect is given by others and they can withdraw the respect. The body too, will fall in time.
That is the reason mind is afraid, mind wants some content; that contents is its very existence, its very identity. But that content is borrowed content. And when I am living on borrowed content I will be afraid that this will be taken away. But the mind will not be afraid if you tell it that, “If this content goes away, something more valuable is waiting for you.” Then the mind will not resist change.
