Superstitious Beliefs || Acharya Prashant

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00:00We don't care about what the actual meaning of the festival.

00:03So there are so many misconceptions, there is so many stupidity in the society that goes on.

00:08How do we avoid all that?

00:09We just believe.

00:10The spirit of exploration, inquiry, investigation is not there.

00:14We do not know a thing about the objective world.

00:17We also do not know a thing about our religions.

00:20So we do not know why festivals exist.

00:22We have no idea at all.

00:23We just celebrate.

00:24So Diwali is just about crackers and lights and sweets and gifts and such things.

00:30Any festival.

00:31Bakrid.

00:32And it has become, to the vast majority of Muslims, a day of slaughter.

00:35What is this?

00:36Are festivals about such things?

00:38What is Holi?

00:39The day when you throw balloons at all kinds of people, especially girls.

00:43Christmas is all about consumerism, shopping.

00:46You shop right till the new year eve.

00:49There are 40 times more ridiculous kinds of beliefs circulating and people are damn serious

00:56about them.