Astrology Industry || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Is astrology spiritual or scientific? || Acharya Prashant, with DU (2023)

Transcript

00:00For anybody who believes in astrology cannot be a rational person.

00:04Let there be a thesis.

00:06Let there be a set of propositions that are available to examination.

00:12Nobody will jail you for your beliefs.

00:14You want to believe in something and continue to believe in it.

00:17But don't term it as logical or rational or scientific.

00:21There is no logic. There is a story.

00:24You may love a story. Fine. That's your subjective choice.

00:27But don't call it a science. It's a story.

00:29And quite an entertaining story.

00:31Also quite profit yielding story.

00:33If I look at the size of the astrology industry today.

00:36And the number of astrology apps that are available on Play stores etc.

00:40So it's a story that is making big money for a lot of storytellers.

00:45Fine. It's between them and their clients.

00:48If the clients choose to pay just to hear stories, who am I to object?