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Video Information: 01.10.2025, IIT Hyderabad
Title : Stop Trusting Your Dreams || Acharya Prashant, IIT Hyderabad
🗒️Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:32 - What Do Dreams Reveal About You?
09:00 - Can You Trust Your Beliefs?
18:38 - Testimonial
Context: - In this insightful session at IIT Hyderabad, Acharya Prashant discusses a question on dreams, leading into a deeper look at desire, perception, and the mind. It then explores how we relate to facts, how beliefs take shape, and the tendency towards self-deception. As it unfolds, it raises fundamental questions about responsibility, truth, and the role of the observer, leaving the viewer with much to reflect on.
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Music Credits: Milind Date
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Title : Stop Trusting Your Dreams || Acharya Prashant, IIT Hyderabad
🗒️Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:32 - What Do Dreams Reveal About You?
09:00 - Can You Trust Your Beliefs?
18:38 - Testimonial
Context: - In this insightful session at IIT Hyderabad, Acharya Prashant discusses a question on dreams, leading into a deeper look at desire, perception, and the mind. It then explores how we relate to facts, how beliefs take shape, and the tendency towards self-deception. As it unfolds, it raises fundamental questions about responsibility, truth, and the role of the observer, leaving the viewer with much to reflect on.
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🎧 Listen to #AcharyaPrashant on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/3f0KFweIdHB0vfcoizFcET?si=c8f9a6ba31964a06
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00What would you call about dreams?
00:02Our mind is capable to think a lot of informations.
00:07Why do we then have certain dreams where we don't actually ever think about it?
00:13How many of you were caught speaking Latin in your dreams?
00:17Please tell me, is it even possible?
00:19Dreams can tell you something, but they can tell you...
00:25How does the time dilates in dream?
00:28There are a lot of time passed in dream.
00:31Not just time, the entire universe, space-time, both, everything.
00:35Your mind is capable of a lot of self-deception.
00:39But that self-deception is also capabilities in it.
00:43Very dangerous capabilities.
00:45Even if you do realize it's a dream, that is again like an inception of the dream itself.
00:50But the thing is, there are those who say, well, there is this one life to live,
00:55and I want to explore it to the extreme.
00:58I want to drink it to the hilt.
01:00Getting it?
01:00It depends on your own love, your own intensity.
01:04Aren't believe a product of your own experiences?
01:07Know that this is controlled by an algorithm you never wrote.
01:14All is good.
01:16Okay.
01:18All is well.
01:19I believe some supreme lord, a benevolent one, will take care of me.
01:24All is well.
01:25Let's go to sleep.
01:32What would you call about dreams?
01:35Why do we then have certain…
01:38We have certain dreams where we don't actually ever think about it?
01:43Not possible.
01:44Our brain makes person who does not even exist in our life.
01:47No, no.
01:48Not possible.
01:51In all your dreams, only your desires express themselves.
01:57And all desires have a material object at the other end.
02:04At one end stands the self, at the other end stands an object.
02:09That's the composition of all dreams.
02:13Right?
02:14So, how many of you have dreamt the fifth dimension of space in your dreams?
02:22Possible?
02:23How many of you were caught speaking Latin in your dreams?
02:30Please tell me.
02:31Is it even possible?
02:32Not Latin, but yes.
02:33There was certain language which is understandable.
02:35That language, this you can do.
02:38Yes.
02:39That is fine.
02:40That is not a language.
02:42But even if I see Latin, I won't understand it is Latin or not.
02:47Because I…
02:47In Latin, maybe you could have told yourself this is Latin.
02:51You see, only your experiences with respect to objects,
02:58unfulfilled desires with respect to objects,
03:01they return to you in dreams.
03:03There is nothing new or novel in dreams.
03:06Dreams can tell you something, but not anything new.
03:11They can only tell you who you already are.
03:14They cannot predict the future for you.
03:16But they can tell you what is lying buried in your mind.
03:20That's what dreams can do.
03:21How does the time dilates in dream?
03:24There are a lot of time passed in dream, but what we see is…
03:28What…
03:29When…
03:29For the moment we sleep, let's say it is just a one-hour nap.
03:33Not just time.
03:34The entire universe, space-time, both, everything.
03:37How is…
03:38How does that…
03:38Because in dream, there is liberation from the tyranny of facts.
03:45How is it so?
03:46How our brain is capable.
03:47Because that's what desire is all about.
03:48Does desire care for facts?
03:50Does desire care for facts?
03:53No, but…
03:53Please understand.
03:55No.
03:55Does desire care for facts?
03:58Yeah?
03:59So, you have a desire for Cleopatra.
04:04And centuries back, she's gone, dead.
04:07But in your dream, you can time travel and mate with Cleopatra.
04:13Because desire doesn't care for facts.
04:17If desire could care for facts, it would dissolve.
04:23For example, there are certain physical limitations, right?
04:29For a one-hour nap, how am I able to see months in my dream?
04:34All physical limitations are facts.
04:39Now that you are awake, and conscious, and respectful of facts,
04:46you will say there are limits.
04:48But please tell me, are there any limits to desire?
04:52No.
04:53Are there any limits to desire?
04:56That's what dream is about.
04:58But if I desire, I have a…
05:00For example, if I am desiring of something,
05:03I will think about it, time will pass.
05:05And time will pass with its own pace.
05:08But in dreams, time does not pass with its own pace.
05:11So, that which you call as the speed of time is a fact.
05:16Dreams don't care for it.
05:19Because if time remains what it is, then you cannot have Cleopatra.
05:23How is it arising then?
05:25You want Cleopatra, that's all.
05:27No, but how is it arising, the non-existence of the fact?
05:33You just want it.
05:35There is a belief that if you can have Cleopatra,
05:38you will gain the ultimate fulfillment.
05:41That's the only reason.
05:42And then to have her.
05:44You can cook up any kind of distortion.
05:46You can even distort time.
05:48You can distort space.
05:49You can see yourself as one beautiful prince riding a horse, anything.
05:55That means our mind is capable to think a lot of information.
06:00Your mind is capable of a lot of self-deception.
06:05Self-deception.
06:07But that self-deception is also capability, isn't it?
06:12Very dangerous capability.
06:13Yes.
06:16If during this self-deception, I can play with time.
06:20I can play with the passage of time.
06:22So, I can also play with while being conscious.
06:26Can I just dilate the time for me?
06:29Yes, obviously you do that, don't you?
06:31Even when you are not dreaming, even when you are in this common state of consciousness called Jagrati,
06:39even when you are not in what Vedanta calls as Sapnavastha,
06:43even then you are playing all kinds of games with time.
06:49We know the speed of flight cannot be exceeded.
06:53Right?
06:54But if your girlfriend is on Jupiter, you will reach her in half a second.
07:00Even as you are awake right now, aren't you thinking of her?
07:04She is the princess of Jupiter.
07:07Aren't you thinking of her?
07:08Please tell me.
07:09What happened to time now?
07:11What happened to the physical limits of the universe and the limit of speed of light?
07:17What happened to that?
07:19And that's why you observe or see your dead loved ones in your dreams,
07:24because you desire to have them back.
07:27And desire has only contempt for facts.
07:30So it is again something holding back to that.
07:33Yes.
07:34Desire has deep contempt for facts.
07:37I want to have $10 billion, irrespective of who I am.
07:43I won't care for my fact.
07:46I want $10 billion.
07:47That's desire.
07:49I won't look at my qualifications.
07:51I won't ask myself what have you done to deserve $10 billion.
07:55There is desire.
07:56That's why desire is blind.
07:57It just wants.
07:57I want.
07:59I want.
08:00You can't cross question, but why do you want?
08:03It will slap you back.
08:04That's how desire is.
08:06Can you also elaborate on the role of the observer in such situations?
08:10Observer sees this stupidity and smiles.
08:13What else can he do?
08:14It's also desires.
08:16In your dreams, even your perception, your logical perception is highly altered.
08:21Even if you do realise it's a dream, that is again like the inception of the dream itself.
08:27But the thing is, the intensity and frequency of your dreams, that changes with your realisation.
08:36When you are sorted out in your awakened state, the quality of your dreams, that changes.
08:45The more unfulfilled desires you choose to carry, the more vivid, vibrant and explosive your dreams are.
08:59We were talking about beliefs.
09:02Aren't belief a product of your own experiences?
09:05So you want us to keep the experiences as the, from the participant's perspective?
09:11Totally wrong.
09:11Those who believe, they avoid experience at all cost.
09:16Those who believe, yes.
09:21Do you know?
09:21A lot of people still say that man never experienced landing on the moon.
09:29Because the moon is a thing of the gods.
09:32How can a mere man step on the moon?
09:37So they said that experience never happened.
09:42For example, we see a lot of people that something good happens to them and then they connect it to
09:48God.
09:49Right?
09:49And that is their belief, that something good happened because of God.
09:53Yes.
09:53So that is their belief.
09:54But if something wrong happens to somebody, the moment, the immediate reaction from their side is that there is no
10:00God.
10:01So what do you conclude from this?
10:03That belief is an agent to avoid responsibility.
10:11Belief is self-deception.
10:13Self-deception, irresponsible.
10:15Not taking accountability of your own actions.
10:18Unfortunately, it's not an accurate trait of human beings, where we cannot rely on it for seeking truth.
10:25So it's never good to rely on oneself.
10:29A thought arises, you want to quickly conclude, delay, postpone.
10:37Be a little sceptical.
10:39You know, these were all schools of thought.
10:43Cynics, sceptics.
10:45But we have turned them into unfavourable words.
10:50These were philosophers.
10:52The cynics, the sceptics.
10:54In fact, we hated the cynics so much, we gave them that name.
10:59Their root word was cynicism.
11:02No, cynic means a dog.
11:06Cynicism, that's why.
11:07So we hated them so much, we called them dogs.
11:12Because they didn't want to believe in what the society believed.
11:16So the society hated.
11:18Because they called out all the lies.
11:20So we said, you are dogs.
11:22And they said, we celebrate dogs.
11:24Diogenes was a famous and leading cynic.
11:28He actually lived with dogs.
11:31He said, these are better than men.
11:33So he lived with dogs.
11:35In some context, yes, definitely.
11:37They are loyal and predictable.
11:39So, don't trust yourself too much.
11:43Know that this is programmed to self deceive.
11:49Know that this is controlled by an algorithm you never wrote.
11:56Right?
11:57That this is just an intermediate product of evolution.
12:02Know.
12:03So don't trust itself.
12:05Don't trust this too much.
12:06Because finding absolute truth wasn't really necessary for our evolution and survival.
12:12Well said. Very well said.
12:12So, even if we were saying that we need this truth and that deception that we are having for that.
12:21Doesn't necessarily mean we just cannot handle the reality of truth itself.
12:26I think we can say it like that.
12:28Where we just cannot comprehend in what ways we can achieve good.
12:32It's a subjective thing.
12:34It depends on your love.
12:36If you decide to make peace with restlessness, that is fine.
12:42But then there are those who say, well, there is this one life to live.
12:48And I want to explore it to the extreme.
12:51I want to drink it to the hilt.
12:54Getting it?
12:55It depends on your own love.
12:58Your own intensity.
13:00Otherwise, you could simply say, you know, eat, drink, be merry, have sex, die.
13:05Yeah. That's why we need to put constraints to any of our beliefs or any of our ideas,
13:10where it won't really universally apply.
13:11Like Newtonian laws were disproven by Einstein.
13:14And even when you have to temporarily invest in a belief,
13:21because sometimes you are choiceless,
13:25then you must still remember that it is a belief, irrespective of my temporary approval of it.
13:37It is still a belief, just like scientific theories.
13:41You take them in, but they are always open to being falsified.
13:48One experiment and a long-standing theory can be falsified.
13:55So you must always have that honesty, that openness.
13:58Openness is what many of the masses lack.
14:01Otherwise, it becomes dogma.
14:03Otherwise, you say, I have believed in this.
14:06My forefathers have believed in this.
14:08This has come to me from the gods.
14:11Therefore, it is not open to discussion.
14:15It can't be contravened.
14:18And if you do that, we'll accuse you of blasphemy.
14:23And we'll lynch you.
14:25Unfortunately, many such believers held the position of power,
14:28which did reshape a lot of history.
14:30Because power is supplied by the crowds.
14:32And the crowds are mostly stupid.
14:33So essentially, the people who could affect, like influence the crowd were essentially the people who were powerful.
14:39Other than they were knowledgeable or just wise.
14:43Would it be right to say that the answer is to know that you don't know anything?
14:49And eventually, you be flexible and keep believing and then contradicting your own beliefs?
14:57Eventually, you can falsify your own beliefs and believe in you.
15:00Even the people with power were those who were derived by belief because belief is something which will attract a
15:07lot of masses any day.
15:09Allows you to be lazy.
15:11Yes.
15:12And laziness is something which most of the people crave.
15:18That is quite natural.
15:20We would want to expend the least amount of energy to achieve a task.
15:24So, in a context, in a meaning, it's not really bad.
15:28It just depends on how we are applying it and where we are not applying it.
15:33All is good.
15:35Okay.
15:37All is well, I believe.
15:41Some supreme lord, a benevolent one, will take care of me, all is well.
15:46Let's go to sleep.
15:47I mean, there are some constants we are born with.
15:50All we can do is just deal.
15:51Let's all go to sleep.
15:53Somebody will take care of us.
15:55This will eventually become a fact as well.
15:58How?
15:59How?
16:00How will it become a fact?
16:03That some great python is waiting for you.
16:06And you are saying it will become a fact that all is well?
16:10All are confirming to it.
16:13That's why.
16:15Because there is no antithesis of it.
16:17Fact is not a belief with consensus.
16:22Fact is not a belief approved by the crowds.
16:25What kind of definition is this?
16:27A fact is something that stands irrespective of subjective approval.
16:32That is what a fact is.
16:34Even if everybody says G is not 9.8 meter per second square.
16:39It still stays at that.
16:41That's a fact.
16:42A fact does not depend on the crowd.
16:46Shared illusions do not become reality.
16:49Do they?
16:50Yeah.
16:51This was a great insight for all of us over here.
16:55We all understood quite a bit.
16:57And like, again, we understood that we are observers.
17:01As in, we need to be observers.
17:04That's a good insight that all masses should have.
17:06And hopefully this has reached to quite a lot of people.
17:09And we really appreciate it.
17:11And the time that you gave us answering the question, the discussion.
17:14I am glad. I am glad.
17:15It was a great honor for us.
17:19Thank you, sir.
17:20Thank you, sir.
17:26So, there are two bodies.
17:29One is the observer.
17:30No, there is not the body.
17:31There is not the body.
17:31No, no, sorry.
17:32There are two things.
17:33One is the observer and another is a consumer.
17:35So, is there, if I am saying there is an observer self.
17:40So, is there any supreme observer which is observing everything?
17:44Do we have something like that?
17:45Yes, there can be one supreme observer here.
17:49It can go to infinity like that.
17:52And if this happens, then this happens.
18:02If these three have somebody behind them, then are these three observers or observed?
18:12Observed.
18:13Observed.
18:14Then they will not be on that side of the cup.
18:16Then they will be on this side of the cup because they are the observed phenomena.
18:20Which means there can be only one observer always.
18:24If this observer has somebody behind him, then this one is no more an observer.
18:30It is the observed one.
18:32Is it what called Advait we say?
18:35You can call it Advait.
18:41Namaste.
18:42I have been listening to Acharya Ji since two years now.
18:49Before connecting to Acharya Ji and his teaching,
18:52I was going through a lot of confusion, indecisiveness and lack of clarity in my life.
19:02There were a lot of questions that were going in my head.
19:06And I was not able to find the clear answers.
19:10But after connecting to Acharya Ji and his teaching, I find myself able to get these answers.
19:19Acharya Ji's teachings, he does not teach Gita or Upanishad like we have heard traditional ones.
19:30But he connects these Upanishad and Gita with his deep understanding and the facts and the things that are relevant
19:40for us now.
19:42So I can say that connecting to Acharya Ji and his teaching is the best decision in my life.
19:50It has been a life changing for me.
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