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Superstitious Beliefs || Acharya Prashant
Acharya Prashant
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8/17/2024
Full video: Dealing with negative vibrations || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)
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We don't care about what the actual meaning of the festival.
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So there are so many misconceptions, there is so many stupidity in the society that goes on.
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How do we avoid all that?
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We just believe.
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The spirit of exploration, inquiry, investigation is not there.
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We do not know a thing about the objective world.
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We also do not know a thing about our religions.
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So we do not know why festivals exist.
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We have no idea at all.
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We just celebrate.
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So Diwali is just about crackers and lights and sweets and gifts and such things.
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Any festival.
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Bakrid.
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And it has become, to the vast majority of Muslims, a day of slaughter.
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What is this?
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Are festivals about such things?
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What is Holi?
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The day when you throw balloons at all kinds of people, especially girls.
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Christmas is all about consumerism, shopping.
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You shop right till the new year eve.
00:49
There are 40 times more ridiculous kinds of beliefs circulating and people are damn serious
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about them.
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