Belief Blocks Reality || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Of God and Ghosts || Acharya Prashant, at Goa University (2022)

Transcript

00:00One religion has one fancy story that it takes to be the truth.

00:04The other religion has another story with another name, other characters,

00:08and the other religion takes that story to be the truth.

00:11And if you do not agree to believe in stories of my choice, then you are my enemy.

00:16Is that not how religions of the world operate?

00:19Obviously, all that is just belief.

00:21Spirituality, first of all, says drop all beliefs.

00:24You cannot investigate into the truth if you are burdened with beliefs.

00:30Beliefs will simply block your vision.

00:34Beliefs will totally impede your capacity to know reality at all.

00:39So it's not as if spirituality says do not believe in God.

00:42It simply says do not believe.