Full Video: Empowering Choices: Impact of Knowing What to Do and What Not to Do || Acharya Prashant (2023)
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00:00So my question is, what is more important in life? To know what to do or to know what not to do?
00:04See, doing or not doing, both are functions of the doer, right? The doer is the one making the
00:12choice. If he says do something, he has eyes on the result probably. If he says do not do something,
00:18he wants to save something probably. We often say, oh there is that little voice inside us,
00:25we call it conscience. Wisdom is to realize that your conscience is all artificial,
00:30100% influenced. And that's why the so-called inner conscience is totally outer and varies
00:37from person to person. People have done horrible deeds based on the advice of their conscience.
00:42Hitler too, in his own eyes, must have been a man of conscience. So who is the doer?
00:47Who is the doer? What does he want to achieve through the deed?