English Superstition || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Kantara: Mainstreaming Primitive Superstition || Acharya Prashant, Vedanta Mahotsav (2022) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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00:00India is witnessing what you can call as English-educated superstition that's happening since last 10-20 years now.

00:08Mostly in the last 8-10 years.

00:10Because the political conditions have become very conducive for superstition to prosper.

00:15How?

00:16Because the political ideology says culture is everything and superstition is a part of our ancient culture.

00:23So superstition is great.

00:25The political ideology is not talking really of spirituality.

00:29It is talking only of culture.

00:31Hence you have rise of godmen over the last 10 years who specialize in superstition.

00:38Half their talks and discourses are about the other world.

00:43What happens in death, after death.

00:46How many kinds of disembodied beings are there.

00:50And all this is gaining both traction and market.

00:54This is a very very tragic development.