Superstition Sells, Truth Frees! || Acharya Prashant

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

Transcript

00:00There is nothing special in any kind of stone or Rudraksha or anything.

00:03No.

00:04But if you feel affected, it is because you have been strongly conditioned to believe

00:08that way.

00:09And there are a lot of people who have vested interests in conditioning you, in making you

00:14believe that a certain crystal or stone will have a beneficial effect on your life.

00:22Or if you wear a certain bracelet or whatever, then your life will improve.

00:28Then they are the ones selling those stones, right?

00:32And if you have an interest, a stake, some kind of benefit you are drawing from propagating

00:40misbelief and superstition, then nothing stops you from turning an entire population superstitious.