Fear of Ghosts || Acharya Prashant

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

Transcript

00:00My problem is that my logic doesn't let me believe in God.

00:04But then in the night if somebody starts talking about ghosts,

00:06I want something God-like near me, like a picture or something.

00:10You believe in ghosts, so to counter that you start believing in gods.

00:16And then you make it ghosts versus gods in your inner battlefield.

00:20And because you are the referee, you make the gods win, right?

00:23So that's one way and that's a tried and tested way.

00:25And that way has actually helped a lot of people.

00:27It's not without reason that those fancy stories continue to hold sway.

00:33They help a lot of people.

00:34So you could use that.

00:35Or you could ask yourself, do I need to counter imagination with imagination?

00:41There is somebody sitting inside me who has no taste for truth,

00:46but has a very fertile imagination.

00:48And that one comes up with all kinds of fancy ideas.

00:51Not only does she come up with fancy ideas,

00:55she doesn't remember the idea is her own.

00:58The idea does not absolutely or objectively exist.

01:03The idea is a purely subjective fancy.

01:06It came from me.

01:07And you forget that.