Idol Worship || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Vibes, Energy, Aura: New-age nonsense || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Guwahati (2023)

Transcript

00:00A stone can affect you only if you first of all already believe that it is going to affect you.

00:07So it is not the stone that is having an effect on you.

00:10It is your belief that is having an effect on you.

00:12But we don't see this. There is nothing special in the thing.

00:15There is nothing special in any kind of stone or Rudraksha or anything. No.

00:19But if you feel affected, it is because you have been strongly conditioned to believe that way.

00:23And there are a lot of people who have vested interests in conditioning you.

00:28In making you believe that a certain crystal or stone will have a beneficial effect on your life.

00:35Or if you wear a certain bracelet or whatever, then your life will improve.

00:40Often they are the ones selling those stones. Right?

00:44And if you have an interest, a stake, some kind of benefit you are drawing from propagating misbelief and superstition,

00:54then nothing stops you from turning an entire population superstitious.