Youth and Creativity-4 || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

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Youth and Creativity-4 || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Listener 1: One morning I woke up and I had a creative thing that I saw in the night. Secondly, whatsoever somebody is saying is coming from past maybe from unconscious. For each of your sentences I had so many flashes from the past. Actually I’m not ignoring knowing, it actually helped in knowing.

Speaker: Alright, let’s look at the validity of this. You said that next morning I woke up and I had a creative thing that I saw in the night. Can you dream of something of that you had no experience in the past, what you have not experienced, can it be present in your dreams?

Listener 1: Sir, actually I feel yes.

Speaker: Do you feel French. Can you ever dream in which you are speaking French? What is not present in your mind, cannot be even present in your dreams? Whatever dream you have is somehow modification of the experiences that you have had. Something picked from here, something picked from there and all mixed together. There is nothing new there. Second thing that you said is ultimately coming from some experience, so there is nothing called creativity from nothingness. It is always creativity from something, that’s what you are asserting on. Let’s look at this, A is dependent on B, B is dependent on C. If creativity is always from something, then everybody is dependent on somebody, now then where will you, then place the first one. Or, do you want to say that there is never any first one?

Listener 1: Sir, I think that we can innovate only when we are in dreams. For example Sir, first of all shelters were made by human and it depends on the need.

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