Belief Blocks Reality || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Of God and Ghosts || Acharya Prashant, at Goa University (2022)

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00:00One religion has one fancy story that it takes to be the truth.

00:03The other religion has another story with another names, other characters and the other religion takes that story to be the truth.

00:11And if you do not agree to believe in stories of my choice, then you are my enemy.

00:16Is that not how religions of the world operate? Obviously, all that is just belief.

00:21Spirituality first of all says drop all beliefs. You cannot investigate into the truth if you are

00:28burdened with beliefs. Beliefs will simply block your vision. Beliefs will totally impede your

00:36capacity to know reality at all. So it's not as if spirituality says do not believe in God,

00:42it simply says do not believe.