Question: How do I call this brain my own if this is nothing but a collection of experiences from the past and influences from the outside?
Acharya Prashant: Me and my brain must be called as two different entities. Right? This question surely wouldnтАЩt have been in your mind a month back, today it is there because you have come to see that the brain is nothing but a collection of all your past experiences. The brain is nothing but a product of evolution and it has all the information that life has gone through, has gathered in the course of these million years of being and becoming.
You have also come to see, it has been often emphasized that any external influence is absorbed by the brain. You surely have been told that the brain acts like a sponge. That the brain acts like the sponge, that it keeps on taking in whatsoever comes from outside. If I am not mistaken, you have also seen that all this comes from outside is what constitutes your ego. Correct? Identification with that becomes your ego.
So now you are wondering that how do I call this brain my own? If this is nothing but a collection of experiences from the past and influences from the outside, how do I call it my own? Right?
If this is nothing but some kind of board, a blank board on which anybody can come and write something. What is it that I can really call as my own? Right? What is it that I really call as my own?
