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All experience is pre-conditioned, hence false || Acharya Prashant (2018)
Acharya Prashant
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Experience
Programming
Liberation
Ego
Conditioning
Prakriti
Social Training
Realization
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that all human experiences are unreal and pre-programmed fictions. He asserts that the experiencer exists before the experience and determines it based on internal scripts, rather than experiences happening spontaneously. Because we know in advance what will please or displease us, our lives remain circumscribed and closed to anything truly new. This programming is partly genetic and partly social, leading to predictable emotional responses that society and media exploit to control individuals. For instance, people are expected to feel happy at weddings or find certain images 'hot' because they have been trained to do so, often internalizing this training until it feels like a physical reality. He highlights that liberation is possible by realizing that one is merely trained to experience certain emotions. By recognizing that emotional surges, phobias, and attachments are alien scripts—either biological or social—one can choose not to be dominated by them. Acharya Prashant compares the ego to a remote-controlled instrument strapped to one's arm; while the world holds the controls to cause pain or pleasure, the individual has the power to unstrap the instrument. He encourages a rebellious attitude toward harmful conditioning, suggesting that through realization and the right exercise of choice, one can become unpredictable and free from the control of external triggers.