How free are your thoughts and life? Let's test || Acharya Prashant, at IIM Bangalore (2025)

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Are your thoughts truly your own—or are they borrowed from the world? In this eye-opening session, Acharya Prashant challenges our deepest beliefs about identity, decision-making, and the notion of "what we must do" in life.

🔍 Key Themes Explored:
How conditioning hijacks the “I”
The pain and necessity of self-inquiry
How to recognize false desires & must-dos
Why our dreams are rarely our own
The myth of certainty and why it’s dangerous
Real spirituality is brutal honesty, not feel-good illusions

🌱 This is not a talk for comfort—it is a challenge to wake up, question everything, and meet yourself for the first time.

00:00 – Introduction
01:37 – What is Conditioned Thinking?
08:45 – How Ego Hijacks Thoughts
13:40 – Why Borrowed Ideas Feel Personal
20:00 – Truth Demands Inner Pain
27:30 – “Confidence is Your Enemy”
32:22 – How to Find What You Must Do?
45:50 – Are Your Dreams Really Yours?
52:51 – When to Act vs. Observe
55:05 – Final Insight: Truth is Here & Now

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Video Information: 10.03.25, IIM-Bangalore, Bangalore

Context:
Confidence is your enemy
The one sitting inside is not your friend, it is the false I, a usurper
Most of us die physically without ever having taken birth
Even if the association is false, the ego clings to it because it fears loneliness
We are manufactured beings — right DOM, not DOB
If it's appearing to me, then it ought to be false
The more confident you feel, the more Maya is winning
You don’t need any vision of the future, vision of the future is dangerous
Your dreams are not your own, your targets are not your own
Life is not about doing more, it’s about dropping what need not be done
What we call our truth is often the greatest enemy of the truth
Action and observation must go together — like watching from a moving bus
You are not even born yet — how can you be worried about death

Music Credits: Milind Date
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