Science cannot Fight Superstition || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: If Vivekanand comes alive today, this is what he faces || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)

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00:00Science cannot deal with subjective things.

00:02You fall in love with a pig, science cannot correct you.

00:04All that science can tell you that it is a pig.

00:06You still say it's my subjective decision to roll in the shit with the pig.

00:10Science will remain silent.

00:12What can science do now?

00:13Science can at max tell you what all kinds of bacteria are present in that filth.

00:18Beyond that science can't do much.

00:19It's a subjective thing and the superstitions today are all subjective.

00:22How do you fight that?

00:23Swami Vivekananda is saying the challenges of the last century were actually easier to deal with.

00:29At this moment the challenges are almost impossible to tackle.

00:33You could demonstrate to someone that his belief is a mere superstition.

00:37But how do you demonstrate that your subjective concepts, your way of life, your principles,

00:44these are all just worthless, false, baseless.

00:47How do you demonstrate that?

00:49It's very difficult.

00:50And the youth has been greatly indoctrinated today.

00:52Especially in a country like India because it's a young country.

00:54So if you can capture the youth, you have captured everything.

00:57You have also captured the future, right?

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