The Real Genius || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Maybe your grandmother once told you that if you are not a creative genius, I will not sing you a song or offer you love.

00:07And then you said it is compulsory for me to behave like or feel like or pretend like a genius.

00:14That happened way back in your childhood.

00:16You were told that if you are not brilliant and outstanding, then you won't be loved.

00:20So you soaked it in. You said, now all my life I have to behave as if I am the genius there.

00:27And that becomes an ideal you compulsorily carry. You cannot question it.

00:32You must learn to inquire into these things. No ideal is beyond investigation.

00:38You must ask, what is religion? What is spirituality? What is patriotism? What is greatness? What is divinity? What is love?

00:44And these are the words we worship. We have been told that they are beyond inquiry.

00:51No, nothing is beyond inquiry. I want to know. Please tell me.

00:53Where do people come from? Where do ideas come from? Where do countries come from?

00:57What is really respectable?