Free thought as a tool to negate frozen thought, stale thought, is good, is useful, but it needs to know its place. It needs to have some humility. Thought is just thought, movement of the brain. It won’t get you too far.
This summary is AI-generated. Please read the full article for complete understanding.
Questioner 1: Hello, Acharya Ji! Thank you so much for your videos and your Satsangs in Rishikesh. It’s very, very insightful and helpful. And may I ask you one more question? What do you think of free thinking and free thinkers? Thank you!
Questioner 2: Acharya Ji, this question that Inis from Russia has put up, is very relevant to me as well. What is freedom of thought? What is thought per se? What does it mean to be a free thinker? Are you thinking freely?... What are all these things? Please give clarity.
Acharya Prashant: Free thought! We need to be firstly clear on what the thinker is and hence, what the thought is before we talk of free thinking or free thought. You see, from your observation, do you remain when you are not thinking? I am not talking of you in the bodily sense. You obviously say that even when you are not thinking, the body remains, but in the psychological sense, do you remain sans your thought?
When you are deeply meditative, or when you are in deep sleep, or even in deep ecstasy, do you remain in the psychological sense?
