Free Will || Acharya Prashant

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00:00 So you can desire anything in the name of free will and that's sacrosanct, right?

00:04 You say, "Well, this is what I want. My truth is my truth. To each his own.

00:08 Who are you to interfere in my personal preferences?"

00:13 So desire is taken as an absolute.

00:15 You are neither supposed to ask yourself and certainly not others, why they desire what they do.

00:21 I will not ask whether the thing is actually worthy of desire.

00:26 I will not ask whether I really need to go after that thing.

00:30 I will not ask who am I and what is it that I really need.

00:33 Do I even need that thing?

00:35 These are taboo questions.

00:37 In the modern world, desire reigns supreme.