What do you believe in? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00There is a kid in the family, right?

00:01And the kid the entire year is showing up with a report card from the school.

00:06And the report card continuously says A, A+, A, A+.

00:08Every two months there is an assessment and the kid comes up and shows the card and the card looks just glorious.

00:14And so you have a certain attitude towards the kid, right?

00:16You give importance to that kid then, correct?

00:19And then when the final exams are over, you in your exuberance, in anticipation that the result will again be great,

00:25you decide not to wait for the report card.

00:26You decide to go to the school yourself and meet the class teacher and get the report card personally.

00:31You meet the class teacher and you say, I'm Champak's didi.

00:35And the class teacher says, are you sure you are his didi?

00:38Because till this day he was displaying somebody else as his didi.

00:43And he hands over the card to you.

00:44And the card somehow is all in red ink from the first place till the last.

00:49C-D, D-L, Z-.

00:52You collect the card and you go back.

00:53And the kid, Champak, is sitting there all puffed up because he is the apple of the family's eye.

00:58Everybody gives great importance to whatever he says.

01:01Because he is not just the class topper, he is the school topper, he is the galaxy topper.

01:05And now you go back with that red thing in your hands.

01:07What is the importance that you now give to Champak?

01:10Very less importance.

01:10No, there was a wise woman in the neighborhood who was cautioning you since an entire year.

01:16And I think this Champak fellow is no good.

01:18You drill some sense into him.

01:19All the time he is chasing all the kids around, especially girls.

01:22And still your family just fraternizes him all the time.

01:25Because you were according a certain importance to Champak based on your assessment of his reality.

01:31And your assessment was based on the proof he was furnishing you.

01:34So the problem about the clash between emotion and logic is the problem about the very fundamentals of assessment of importance.

01:43Fundamentals.

01:44We do not know who to accord importance to.

01:46Because you went to the class teacher, therefore the worth was revealed to you.

01:50And facts will never be revealed if you live in belief.

01:54If you continue to believe Champak, you will never know facts.

01:56That's the problem with belief.

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