Why we believe? || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00The sun is hanging there because the gods ordered it.

00:06How much work does it take to come up with this fancy story?

00:10No work it takes.

00:12The earth is the center of the universe.

00:15And the suns and the moons and the stars and the galaxies are all orbiting around the earth.

00:21How much work does it come up with this kind of a nonsensical story?

00:25Zero work.

00:26Therefore, we go for easy, lazy beliefs.

00:30But to discover the distance between the sun and the earth.

00:37To really come to the shape of the orbits.

00:42To derive equations.

00:45To determine the speed of light.

00:47All that takes effort.

00:50You know of Bruno, you know of Galileo.

00:52You know what happened to them.

00:53You are not born to believe.

00:55Belief is simply a validation of ignorance.

01:01Do you also see how within the human being there is something that just lazily wants to believe.

01:09Why?

01:10Because truth is arduous.

01:13Truth demands hard work.

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