Thought is a servant; thought is a shadow. The shadow cannot betray its owner, its master. So, what changes is the nature of the ego itself, not the nature of thought. So when we say, for example, selfless thought, that primarily implies that the ego has improved, loosely put. Since I have become better, so have my thoughts. Now, I cannot remain the same and say my thoughts have become selfless, and if I do that, then I'm being pretentious and just fooling myself.
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Questioner: Okay. I have two questions.
Acharya Prashant: Yeah, first one from me - nice look.
Questioner: Oh thank you. Actually, I was told to introduce myself in case you don't recognize me.
(Both laughs.)
Yeah, it's new, but yeah, let's take the questions. So the first one is based on something you were talking about a lot a few years back, which was basically about thought that doesn't have self-interest or self-preservation at its center, and now you took a more, maybe a more like, absolute stand regarding the place of thought. I guess that's the first thing if we could explore it. So is there such a thing as right thought or thought that doesn't serve the ego in some way?
