Most people move through life unconsciously, mistaking inherited beliefs, ambitions, and social conditioning for personal choice. Careers, relationships, goals, and even identities often arise more from habit and circumstance than from conscious understanding. Real freedom begins by questioning the actor rather than the action, examining the assumptions behind one’s choices, and awakening from the psychological “coma” in which life is merely happening rather than being consciously lived.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya ji. My name is Lata. I'm a PhD student here in biomedical engineering. So, drawing from that dumbness of things that we do. So, what happens generally is, the friends I have, the people I've met throughout, there's a lack of why, in why they're doing the PhD. I have met them, I asked them why. And they're like, "There's bachelor's, there's master's, then there's PhD. What else is there?" Okay, for engineers there's a different agenda. They have BTech, didn't get a job, did MTech, didn't get a job, did a PhD. So, it happens that way.
So, what happens at the end of a PhD? Like, a PhD shouldn't be a degree, right? It is to seek something. You're seeking something deeper in that field. You're not just here for that. How do we find that why? Why are we doing this? Why are we here?
Acharya Prashant: You're carrying this book, right? Just open the second chapter. Just open the second chapter.
