Choose Your Role Wisely || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Mistaken identity and blurred consciousness || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Kharagpur (2022)

Transcript

00:00All the roles are just roles. You do not exist for the sake of those roles. They are incidental.

00:07A lot of those roles you never even asked for. They were always situational.

00:11Even the program you might have enrolled in is not necessarily the program that you always desired to be in.

00:18I can say for myself, I got a certain J.E. rank and that J.E. rank determined the department I got into.

00:23In fact, while preparing for J.E., I had thought nothing of departments.

00:26Do you see how coincidental these identities are?

00:30You never wanted to be born a woman.

00:33You never explicitly desired to be born in India or in your particular religion.

00:39But these things just happen. These are incidents.

00:42How much importance can one give to accidents?

00:47How seriously do you want to take something that just happened?

00:50And if such things that randomly happen are to be the core of your life, then tell me where is freedom?

00:57Anything can randomly happen.