Religion and Spirituality are not same || Acharya Prashant, with NIT Trichy (2021)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why do people believe nonsense and get fooled? || Acharya Prashant, with NIT Trichy (2021)  Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SweO6ml5jYA&t=0s  Video Information: 03.11.2021, NIT-Talk (Online), Rishikesh  Context: What is  meaning of faith, belief and trust? What is the meaning of to be faithful? How to be faithful? Do belief, fact or faith change with time? What is faith? What is spirituality? Why do we get caught in traditions and culture? Who is a Guru?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00 The constitution was being framed at the time when religious hatred and passion and tempers

00:14 and violence in the country were very very high, there was a lot of bloodshed.

00:21 So these educated people became very afraid of religion.

00:24 They said if we talk of religion, then again there will be bloodshed.

00:29 They did not understand the difference between religion and spirituality.

00:35 They did not know the difference between a belief system and inquiry.

00:40 What you call as religion is just an organized belief system, believe in this, believe in

00:44 that.

00:45 Whereas spirituality is just an invitation to inquiry.

00:50 There is hardly anything common between frozen belief and youthful inquiry.

01:03 Just do not think that by being well educated or well read or thoughtful, you have liberated

01:11 yourself of superstition.

01:14 Most people live in all kinds of superstition because they have no self-knowledge and I

01:18 said the ego is the first superstition.

01:21 As long as the false self remains, the mother superstition remains.

01:30 But you know it boosts the ego to call that illiterate tribal superstitious.

01:38 Why?

01:39 Because he believes in gods and goddesses and magical powers of that great old tree.

01:46 So you say, oh he is so superstitious.

01:49 He believes that the trees can speak.

01:54 He believes that that particular rock can do some magic.

02:02 But look at your own life.

02:07 You chase a man or a woman and you think that that rock can do some magic for you.

02:13 How are you not superstitious?

02:16 Thinking that a rock can weave magic is superstition.

02:22 But thinking that a new job can do magic for you is not superstition.

02:31 The latter is even more vicious superstition because it is difficult to call it out and

02:42 remove it.

02:45 Something is outside of you, you can easily wipe it away.

02:50 When the thing is inside of you, it requires courage to pluck it out.

02:57 [Music]

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