Why the Smartest Thing You Can Do Is Stop Trusting Your Own Thoughts 

“I affectionately refer to my own mind as the bullshitter.”  

Most people trust their minds completely. Every thought that arises is taken as truth, acted on without question, and defended as though it were fact. But what if the mind is not nearly as reliable as we believe it to be? In this Satsang, Vishrant shares something deeply personal and profoundly confronting. He explains how, from the age of fourteen, he began watching his own mind and discovered something unsettling. It lied. Not occasionally. Not in small ways. It lied to itself, consistently and convincingly, to get whatever it wanted. And if our own minds are willing to deceive us, why would we trust them?  

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When Did Vishrant Stop Trusting His Own Mind? 

Most people never stop long enough to watch their own thinking. Thoughts arise and they are believed. End of story. But Vishrant was different. At just fourteen years old, he began to witness his mind, not as a participant in its stories but as an observer watching from the outside. And what he saw changed everything. He could see that his mind was telling itself lies to justify what it wanted. The justifications were convincing. They were clever. And he believed them. Until he didn’t. That was the moment he realised his mind could not really be trusted. And if you think about it, this is how we lose trust with anyone. When they lie to us, we stop believing them. So why do we continue to believe a mind that does the same thing? 

How Does the Mind Justify Addictive Behavior?

The mind wants what it wants. This is not a complicated idea, but the way the mind goes about getting what it wants is remarkably sophisticated. It creates justifications. It builds stories. It produces reasoning that sounds perfectly logical on the surface. And then it believes its own reasoning, even when that reasoning is completely false. Vishrant saw this pattern in himself first. And then he saw it everywhere. For six years, he worked as an addictions counsellor. During that time, he witnessed the same mechanism playing out in the lives of countless people. The excuses that people came up with for continuing their addictions were incredible. They were so fanciful and these people believed them, because that is exactly how the mind operates. It wants what it wants. It justifies what it wants. And then it believes the justifications, even when they are lies. This is not a flaw unique to people struggling with addiction. It is the way every human mind works. The only difference is whether someone has stopped long enough to notice. 

What Will the Mind Do to Get What It Wants?

This is the part that most people find difficult to accept. The mind is not a neutral tool that processes reality clearly and delivers honest assessments. It has desires. It has agendas. And it will produce whatever story is needed to serve those agendas. Vishrant puts it simply. The mind will tell you anything to get what it wants. It will rationalise behaviors that are harmful. It will make excuses for choices that lead nowhere good. It will construct elaborate narratives to avoid discomfort. And the most remarkable part is that it does all of this while sounding entirely reasonable. This is why so many people stay stuck. Not because they lack intelligence. Not because they don’t care. But because they trust a narrator that is working against them and they don’t even know it. 

What Can You Trust If Not Your Own Thoughts?

If the mind cannot be trusted, what can be? Vishrant’s answer is disarmingly simple. Silence and Stillness. He began trusting silence and stillness because silence and stillness can be trusted. What you think is open all the way to corruption by itself. This is a radical idea for most people. We are taught from childhood that thinking is the most valuable thing we can do. We spend twelve years at school learning to live in our heads. We are rewarded for thinking well, thinking fast, thinking cleverly. And so, the idea that thought itself might be unreliable feels almost offensive. But silence does not lie. Stillness does not manipulate. There is no agenda in the space between thoughts. There is only what is actually here. For Vishrant, learning to trust that space instead of the noise was one of the smartest things he ever did. 

Why Does the Mind Avoid Emotional Healing?

There is a reason most people carry their wounds for a lifetime. Healing the wounds of the heart is uncomfortable. It is inconvenient. It requires feeling things that the mind would very much prefer to avoid. And so the mind does what it does best. It justifies escape. It creates reasons to stay busy. It produces arguments for why now is not the right time. It finds distractions and calls them necessities. It builds an entire case for why the discomfort should be avoided. And because the justifications sound reasonable, most people believe them. This is why so many people don’t heal that much wounding. They believe their mind and find an escape from feeling what they have to feel to heal the wounds of their heart. The escape looks different for everyone. For some it is work. For others, it’s entertainment, substances, relationships, or endless thinking about itself. But the mechanism is always the same. Discomfort arises. The mind justifies an exit. And the wound remains untouched. 

The Escape Methodologies 

Vishrant uses a phrase that is both direct and revealing. Escape methodologies. These are the strategies the mind creates to get away from what is uncomfortable. They are not random. They are carefully constructed, internally justified, and fiercely defended. The mind justifies the things that don’t help us heal, because healing wounding is uncomfortable and it is inconvenient. This is worth sitting with for a moment. The very thing that would set someone free, feeling the pain that has been stored in the heart, is the very thing the mind works hardest to prevent. Not because the mind is evil. But because the mind’s job is to solve problems and avoid discomfort. And the wounds of the heart look like problems that should be avoided. But they are not problems to solve, they are experiences to be felt. And feeling them is the only way through. 

How Do You Know If Your Mind Is Lying to You?

This is perhaps the most important thing Vishrant says in this entire Satsang. If you haven’t noticed your mind lying to you, you simply haven’t looked. It is not that some minds lie and others don’t. Every mind does this. Every single one. The difference is awareness. Most people live inside their thinking without ever stepping back to observe it. They are so identified with their thoughts that the idea of watching those thoughts from a distance doesn’t even occur to them. But the moment someone begins to look, truly look, the lies become visible. The justifications, the rationalisations, the stories that sound true but serve only the mind’s desires. Vishrant didn’t notice any of this until he started watching. And then once he started seeing it, he couldn’t unsee it. The lies were everywhere. 

A Disbeliever in Excuses 

After decades of watching his own mind and years of working with people as an addiction counsellor, Vishrant arrived at a clear position. He is a disbeliever. When it comes to listening to people and their excuses for their behaviours, he understands too well how the mind actually works. He knows how it will justify its own lies to get whatever it wants. This is not cynicism. It is clarity. When you have seen through the mechanism in yourself, you recognise it immediately in others. The stories change. The details are different. But the pattern is always the same. The mind wants something. It builds a case. And then it believes its own case. Vishrant sees through it because he saw through it in himself first. 

What Happens When You Stop Believing 

Something remarkable happens when a person stops automatically trusting every thought that arises. Space appears. Not the kind of space that needs to be filled. The kind of space where something real can finally be felt. This is what Vishrant means when he talks about trusting silence and stillness. It is not about emptiness. It is about making room for what has always been there underneath the noise. When the mind’s commentary quiets, even for a moment, reality becomes available in a way it never was before. Not a better version of reality. Not a spiritually improved reality, just what is actually here, and what is actually here can be trusted. 

An Invitation to Watch Your Own Mind 

This Satsang is not about rejecting the mind or fighting against thought. It is about something much simpler than that. It is an invitation to watch. To notice the stories your mind tells you and ask whether they are actually true. To see the justifications it produces and wonder who they really serve. To catch the lies in the moment they arise, not with judgment, but with awareness. The moment you see the lie it loses its power and in that space something else becomes available. Something the mind could never offer. Silence. Stillness. And the quiet truth of what is actually real.  

Sit in Satsang with Vishrant and experience this for yourself. In the presence of truth, the mind’s noise begins to fade. When we stop believing every thought, something inside begins to soften. And what remains is not nothing. It is everything the mind was hiding from you all along.