Is Your Mind Controlled by Society? || Acharya Prashant (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Good evening, sir. So, sir, when we talk about the common consciousness and the way you were

00:08explaining it, is that also just the conditioning? Yeah, that's what. See, material is conditioning.

00:19That which is a product of certain conditions is called material. Is there anything in Prakriti

00:25that is not a product of its conditions? So, what is conditioning? Conditioning is both a

00:32process and an output. Everything is conditioned. There is nothing that just shows up. Everything

00:43is the result of a process. That's called conditioning.

00:45So, when we say that there is no difference between life and death in this way, in Prakriti,

01:02but can we still say that death is end of the reaction? Change in reaction, but that reaction,

01:10but that change is anyway always happening. You see, an iron piece experiences an attractive force

01:19towards a magnet, right? The iron is at a distance of one meter from the magnet, right?

01:29And the iron piece is drawn towards the magnet and now it's at a distance of 0.5 meters from the magnet.

01:37What happens to the attractive pull? It grows stronger. Right. So, something has changed.

01:47Changed, nothing else. That's not death. That's not nothing else. That's just change.

01:54In one condition you are behaving in one way. Now your condition has changed, so you are behaving in another way.

02:00So, if I were to put it very, very, very summarily, can we just say that we are like animals?

02:13That's a lot of aggrandization.

02:30But yes, given that no animal ostensibly has enrolled in this course,

02:35we can, we can say that and get away with that. But,

02:57once, you know, if you see people as people,

03:00you will be very angry at them. If you see people as animals,

03:09you would still have some expectations. But if you can see people as processes,

03:14the first thing that you will lose is anger.

03:26The fellow is not a fellow. The fellow is a process. How can you get angry at a process?

03:32The fellow is not a fellow. The fellow is a mass of chemicals. How can you get angry at hydrogen peroxide?

03:48You are calling that fellow by some name. Give me a name. Some fellow you get usually angry at.

03:54Tony. Tony. Tony. Tony is not a person.

04:03Tony is a perchloride.

04:08So, so are we all. Ahinsa. Ahinsa is to

04:15Ahinsa is not about not getting angry on people. Ahinsa is about seeing the

04:24pointlessness of anger. The fact is that the other fellow cannot help doing what he is doing.

04:35Because he is a process. The iron piece cannot help doing what he does. What it does.

04:43Just as you call animals not as he but as it. Start calling people not as he but as it.

04:53And then you find that anger becomes untenable. There is no person. There is just iron and magnet and nitric

05:03acid and sand. How do you get angry at sand?

05:06There is no person. But that is possible only if you first of all start seeing that

05:19I am not a person. I remaining a person I cannot call that one as a process.

05:25There is a process. There is a process here. There is a process there. What is there to get angry about?

05:32He did what he could.

05:38Therefore, I have been insisting continuously that consciousness, real consciousness is choice.

05:46In a process there is no choice. The fellow in front of you, how much of choice does he have?

05:57If he has no choice, why get angry? And if he has choice,

06:05then the mark of having choice is that you will not choose wrongly.

06:15And then you will not get a reason to be angry at him.

06:21Had he really had choice, he would have chosen

06:26rightly. And had he chosen rightly, you would have found no reason to get mad at him.

06:32Right? So if you claim that he is choosing wrongly, actually he is not choosing at all.

06:43There is nothing called right choice and wrong choice. There is just called the presence,

06:48something called the presence and something called the absence of choice.

06:52Presence of choice is the right choice. Absence of choice is the wrong choice.

06:56When you find somebody making a wrong choice, please know that the fellow was helpless and choiceless.

07:07There was no fellow, there was just a process. Therefore, there was a wrong choice. No process has the

07:13capacity to choose something beyond itself.

07:17You do not exist. How do I get angry at you? You do not exist. How do I get angry at you? You are a mass,

07:31a mass without a center. Who do I get angry at? One cannot get angry at an amorphous mass of things.

07:41There must be some point to get angry at you. You do not have a point. You do not have a center.

07:57So, so, so, so what we call as the wrong center is actually no center.

08:04There is either a center or just looseness. There is nothing called the wrong center really.

08:20So, this also kind of answers the question that I had.

08:25Ego is hell-bent upon identification.

08:28That's true. That's what Arjun is doing. And that's what Krishna is trying to make him acknowledge

08:36and recognize. What purpose does it serve for ego?

08:44Okay. Think of someone who's trying to gate crash into a party.

08:52What will he tell the doorkeeper? There is somebody inside I know.

08:57Yeah, right? So, if you are to enter a party uninvited,

09:05you must continuously assert that you know the people inside.

09:11You must continuously be seen hands in hands with someone.

09:16Otherwise, the bouncer will throw you out.

09:22Are you getting? Okay. There is a hotel.

09:27You don't really have a room there.

09:30You don't really have a room there.

09:34Still, you want to enter the hotel.

09:39What is it that you must continuously keep telling the hotel staff?

09:44I know one of the guests.

09:45One of the guests.

09:47And the fact is, you don't know any of the guests.

09:49So, what do you keep changing?

09:51The names.

09:52The room number that you quote.

09:55And the names that you quote.

09:58Do the residents need to make up a story?

10:05No.

10:05But does the intruder need to make up a story?

10:10Yeah.

10:10Always. The ego is the intruder.

10:14So, the ego always needs somebody's company to roam around.

10:18If the ego is found roaming around the resort campus,

10:23solo, all by itself, what will happen?

10:25It will be thrown out.

10:28It will be thrown out.

10:29The only way it can survive inside the campus, the resort, the hotel campus,

10:34is by being seen in somebody's company.

10:38And then, you know, the ego will be respected because it is with someone.

10:44The ego will be allowed to exist because it is with someone.

10:47So, that's the only way the ego can survive.

10:49By being with someone.

10:53And the ego always says, in its own justification,

11:06that the residents need me, therefore I exist.

11:11The fact is, even without the intruder, the residents are

11:17completely adequate, at rest,

11:21balanced, satisfied, balanced,

11:25in harmony.

11:51for talking.

11:54Welcome home.

12:10Thanks.

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