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Where do your interests come from? || Acharya Prashant (2018)
Acharya Prashant
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6 years ago
Conditioning
Maya
Programming
Realization
Sensory Input
Imagination
Fear
Listening
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that human interests and visions are not original but are products of external influences and sensory inputs accumulated over time. He uses the analogy of a person born deaf to illustrate that without hearing words, one would have no language to speak or even to form imagination. Everything we claim as our own interest is merely a pile of information that has been built up and recycled through the hardware and software of the brain, which is itself a product of conditioning and environment. We are essentially programmed like a computer software that accepts or rejects inputs based on pre-defined variables, a process he identifies as the network of Maya.