Astrology Industry || Acharya Prashant
Full video: Is astrology spiritual or scientific? || Acharya Prashant, with DU (2023)
Transcript
00:00Anybody who believes in astrology cannot be a rational person.
00:04Let there be a thesis, let there be a set of propositions that are available to examination.
00:12Nobody will jail you for your beliefs.
00:14You want to believe in something, then continue to believe in it.
00:17But don't term it as logical or rational or scientific.
00:22There is no logic, there is just story.
00:24You may love a story, fine, that's your subjective choice.
00:27But don't call it a science, it's a story.
00:29And quite an entertaining story.
00:30Also quite profit yielding story, if I look at the size of the astrology industry today.
00:36And the number of astrology apps that are available on play stores etc.
00:40So it's a story that is making big money for a lot of storytellers, fine.
00:46It's between them and their clients.
00:48If the clients choose to pay just to hear stories, who am I to object?