Spirituality Without Belief || 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.

00:03I want to know, can spirituality help me fight my phobias?

00:08God as it exists in popular imagination is nothing but the dualistic counterpart of ghosts.

00:16You imagine something and then you let your own imagination terrify you.

00:20And when you feel terrified, you say, oh my God, there is a real danger in front of me.

00:24So you counter this imaginary reality with another kind of imaginary reality.

00:30Spirituality isn't about God. Spirituality isn't about believing in anything.

00:35Neither ghosts nor gods.

00:37God and truth are not the same thing.

00:39Spirituality is about seeking the truth.

00:42God and gods and goddesses and all the stories that we have read about this and that,

00:49obviously they come from our own mind.

00:51No story can come from anywhere else.

00:53To seek truth is to go to the origin of all your stories and fall silent there.