00:00 The constitution was being framed at the time when religious hatred and passion and tempers
00:14 and violence in the country were very very high, there was a lot of bloodshed.
00:21 So these educated people became very afraid of religion.
00:24 They said if we talk of religion, then again there will be bloodshed.
00:29 They did not understand the difference between religion and spirituality.
00:35 They did not know the difference between a belief system and inquiry.
00:40 What you call as religion is just an organized belief system, believe in this, believe in
00:44 that.
00:45 Whereas spirituality is just an invitation to inquiry.
00:50 There is hardly anything common between frozen belief and youthful inquiry.
01:03 Just do not think that by being well educated or well read or thoughtful, you have liberated
01:11 yourself of superstition.
01:14 Most people live in all kinds of superstition because they have no self-knowledge and I
01:18 said the ego is the first superstition.
01:21 As long as the false self remains, the mother superstition remains.
01:30 But you know it boosts the ego to call that illiterate tribal superstitious.
01:38 Why?
01:39 Because he believes in gods and goddesses and magical powers of that great old tree.
01:46 So you say, oh he is so superstitious.
01:49 He believes that the trees can speak.
01:54 He believes that that particular rock can do some magic.
02:02 But look at your own life.
02:07 You chase a man or a woman and you think that that rock can do some magic for you.
02:13 How are you not superstitious?
02:16 Thinking that a rock can weave magic is superstition.
02:22 But thinking that a new job can do magic for you is not superstition.
02:31 The latter is even more vicious superstition because it is difficult to call it out and
02:42 remove it.
02:45 Something is outside of you, you can easily wipe it away.
02:50 When the thing is inside of you, it requires courage to pluck it out.
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