Hard Unrelenting Enquiry || Acharya Prashant

Full video: The myth of 'Consecrated spaces' || Acharya Prashant, with SPA Delhi (2023)

Transcript

00:00Spirituality is not mumbo-jumbo.

00:02Spirituality is hard, unrelenting inquiry.

00:07You want to know what is going on.

00:09Spirituality is philosophy with the purpose of liberation from the ordeal of life.

00:16Spirituality is not a belief system.

00:18Come on, start believing in this.

00:19Come on, start just dancing or parroting something totally mindlessly.

00:23Figure out the meaning.

00:25And if there is no meaning, then there is no compulsion to again and again visit that place.

00:30Everything is symbolic.

00:32And the right meaning has to be asserted.

00:34You must know what is being pointed at.

00:36And if the temple is real, then it will definitely point only towards the sky, the truth, the absolute freedom.

00:45And if you cannot see that, then you must say, oh, the temple right now holds no meaning for me.

00:49Because that temple is not telling me of liberation.

00:53Not the temple's fault really.

00:54My own fault.

00:55I cannot read the meaning.