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(Gita-9) Nothing is real? Everything is just perception? || Acharya Prashant, on Bhagvad Gita (2024)
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Atman
Prakriti
Ego
Maya
Liberation
Vedanta
Bhagavad Gita
Avidya
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Acharya Prashant addresses the common misinterpretation of Bhagavad Gita verse 2:22, which compares the soul changing bodies to a person changing clothes. He clarifies that in Vedanta, the Self or Atman is infinite and does nothing; it neither acts nor is acted upon. It cannot enter a finite, material body because it is beyond the field of Prakriti (nature). The 'embodied one' mentioned in the verse refers to the ego or the 'I-tendency' within Prakriti, which attaches itself to various objects and forms. This ego is the eternal subject that experiences birth and death through its associations with material forms, whereas the Atman remains untouched, eternal, and all-pervading.