'Free will' is an entertaining myth || Acharya Prashant, Bangalore Open Session (2025)

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Video Information: 09.03.25, Curtain Call, Bengaluru

Title: 'Free will' is an entertaining myth || Acharya Prashant, Bangalore Open Session (2025)

Context:
0:00 - Neuroscience says: Free will is an illusion
1:12 - Vedanta’s agreement—but via observation
3:05 - Are your thoughts really your thoughts?
5:10 - The role of pure witnessing in real freedom
7:00 - Suffering proves you’re not living your nature
8:44 - How detachment leads to dharma
10:30 - Choiceless living vs forced living
12:26 - Why unconsciousness is essential for worldly pleasure
14:10 - Consciousness is the real freedom—not choice

You don’t need free will to act rightly. You need clarity.
Vedanta and Neuroscience both deny free will—just through different doors.
Right action is choiceless. You don’t choose the Truth, it flows through you.
True observation is not doing—it’s your very nature.
You suffer because you think you’re the doer.
Consciousness is the only real freedom. Everything else is compulsion.
If pleasure demands unconsciousness, is it worth it?

Music Credits: Milind Date
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