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“Truth Without Apology”
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This video is taken from the book signing event at Crossword Bookstore, Madras on 18 November 2025.

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00:00Sir, I just was going through the 7th chapter, Catching Yourself Red-Handed.
00:05So in this one, this line is there.
00:07It means to look at one's impulses, feelings, thoughts, desires and actions.
00:11There is no other within to look at.
00:14I am a little bit not getting this.
00:17Like there is no other means.
00:19Most people believe in some fictitious entity within.
00:23So this line is there to challenge that.
00:26All that you have within is your own processes.
00:30So what does it say?
00:31Thoughts, feelings, impulses, actions.
00:34This is all that is within.
00:36There is nothing called a soul within.
00:39There is nothing called a self within.
00:41There is nothing called a flying Jivatma within.
00:44So it means like only we are like a component of impulses, feelings and all this.
00:50And there is that which claims to be the owner of all actions and impulses and feelings and decisions.
00:58And that is called the self or the ego.
01:02It is fictitious because these things are not actually commanded by the ego.
01:07They are all biological and chemical.
01:09But for practical purposes the ego does exist because that is the way we relate to each other.
01:16We all have a sense of self, the individual self.
01:19The I does exist.
01:21There is the world and this is me.
01:23So that feeling is there.
01:24So then like when we catch our self red handed.
01:31So then this will be like as the visibility will increase the dissolution of ego or self.
01:38You should not wonder about that.
01:40Just catch yourself in the moment.
01:43This is what I am doing.
01:45This is what is happening within.
01:47Like an observer.
01:48Like an experimenter.
01:49In an unbiased and neutral way.
01:51I can see what is happening.
01:54This is what is happening.
01:55And you see without caring for what is next.
02:01For the result.
02:02Just observe what is happening.
02:04Okay sir.
02:06Thank you sir.

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