Fear of Ghosts || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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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,

00:07I want something God-like near me, like a picture or something.

00:11You 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.

00:28It'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, or you could ask yourself,

00:37do 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, and you forget that.

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