All thoughts arise from external influences || Acharya Prashant (2013)

Acharya Prashant

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All thoughts arise from external influences || Acharya Prashant (2013)

*Questioner: Most of the thoughts are coming from society and family. So, how can I judge that which thought is mine or not?*

Acharya Prashant: No thought is yours; no thought is ever your own. You have very rightly said that all thoughts come from this place or that place, this influence or that influence. No thought is your own. Understanding is your own; that can be your own.

Let me give you an example:

As I am speaking right now, some of you would be thinking, the others are not thinking.

Is there anybody here, who would like to claim that he or she has listened to me attentively, even for one or two minute?

Even for one or two minutes?

Anybody would like to claim that?

‘That yes, even just for one or two minutes, I did listen attentively’.

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