It's Not Your Choice || Acharya Prashant || आचार्य प्रशांत No, no, I have now chosen to take up that job. I have chosen that car model. I have chosen to settle in the US. No, not at all. It's not your choice. You're just flowing. You're drifting. Do we really choose our thoughts? Then how do you choose your careers or your partners? Because if thoughts and feelings come randomly, then the things that we hold so close to our chest, they also just come randomly. And if they are random, why do you invest so much on them? Think of all your purposes. You'll find the top purpose is missing. That one purpose is first of all come to your senses and stand up on your feet. Because we can be really conscious because choice is available. Join the community of more than two lakh participants on the Acharya Prashant app. Acharya Prashant | IIT Hyderabad | It's Not Your Choice | Do We Really Choose Our Thoughts | Choose Your Careers | Choose Your Partners | Top Purpose Is Missing | Man in Coma | You're Just Flowing | You're Drifting | Unconscious Behavior | Choice Is Available | Unconditional Love | Karma | Bhagavad Gita | Suffering | Consciousness | Purpose of Life | Career Choice 🧔🏻‍♂ Want to meet Acharya Prashant? Be a part of the Live Sessions: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/enquiry?cmId=m00046 📚 Want to read Acharya Prashant's Books? Get Free Delivery: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/books?cmId=m00046 📝 Read 3 handpicked wisdom articles, just for you: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/articles?cmId=m00046 ➖➖➖➖➖➖ #AcharyaPrashant #आचार्यप्रशांत #BreakingFree #YouthOfIndia #Freedom #Liberation Video Information: 01.10.2025, IIT Hyderabad Title : It's Not Your Choice || Acharya Prashant Context: - How do we find that why? Are we accountable for any of our actions? Does even what we say unconditional love does it even exist? Why do we dread this philosophy of karma so much? Most of us reach our mid-twenties having ticked every box: degree, job, goals, maybe even a relationship, and somewhere in the back of the mind, a quiet unease sits. We call it lack of direction, or burnout, or existential crisis. But what if the unease is not a problem to be solved, and the choices we are so proud of were never really choices at all? In this video, Acharya Prashant speaks with students at IIT Hyderabad about the absence of a real "why" behind the pursuits we chase, whether anything we call a choice is actually conscious, what unconditional love requires before it can even begin, the difference between having many purposes and having the one purpose that makes all others meaningful, karma as it is commonly understood versus what the Bhagavad Gita actually points to. What Acharya Ji says about the nature of consciousness and suffering may reframe the very question of what it means to live deliberately. Key Points: Unconscious drift vs. conscious choice Karma: popular idea vs. Gita's actual meaning Suffering as signal, not obstacle ➖➖➖➖➖➖ 🎧 Listen to #AcharyaPrashant on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3f0KFwe... Music Credits: Milind Date ~ ~ ~ ~