Spirit of Inquiry || Acharya Prashant

Full video: The Influencers you follow on social media || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Roorkee (2022)

Transcript

00:00Why do you say that mathematics has to be applied only to numbers?

00:05Mathematics is not necessarily numerical.

00:08You get what I'm trying to say.

00:10Why can't the same spirit of inquiry be present to everything in life?

00:15I will not accept without verification.

00:18I will not take anything just because it seems to be coming from a particular authority or high seat or respectable position.

00:26I will not take it.

00:27The first freedom is to be free to question, to question others and to question yourself.

00:34So if you have a book written by those influencers, pause at every sentence.

00:39Though most of them don't write books, they don't have anything worth writing.

00:43Pause at every sentence, analyze, just refuse to move to the next sentence till you are contented with the current one and the previous ones.

00:52Don't let them pull a fast one.

00:54You understand what it means to pull a fast one?

00:56Don't let them get away with this.