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