Spirituality vs Ghosts || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: Of God and Ghosts || Acharya Prashant, at Goa University (2022)
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00:00My problem is that my logic doesn't let me believe in God.
00:03But then in the night if somebody starts talking about ghosts,
00:05I want something God-like near me, like a picture or something.
00:08So I want to know, can spirituality help me fight my phobias?
00:13You believe in ghosts, so to counter that you start believing in gods.
00:18And then you make it ghosts versus gods in your inner battlefield.
00:21And because you are the referee, you make the gods win.
00:23So that's one way and that's a tried and tested way.
00:25And that way has actually helped a lot of people.
00:28It's not without reason that those fancy stories continue to hold sway.
00:32So you could use that or you could ask yourself,
00:35do I need to counter imagination with imagination?
00:38There is somebody sitting inside me who has no taste for truth,
00:42but has a very fertile imagination and that one comes up with all kinds of fancy ideas.
00:47She doesn't remember the idea is her own.
00:50The idea does not absolutely or objectively exist.
00:54The idea is a purely subjective fancy.
00:57It came from me and you forget that.