Vedanta and Atheists || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Is Vedanta only for Hindus? || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00I am an atheist. Even that begins with I. I hate Vedanta. Even that begins with I.

00:04I am a Hindu. I am a Christian. That begins with I. Vedanta explores that very I.

00:09All that is okay. It does not have anything that one must believe in. Vedanta is not a belief

00:16system at all. Vedanta wants the truth, not imaginations, not beliefs. In fact, you'd be

00:22curiously happy to know that God as such has no place in Vedanta. Even if you want to say

00:29there is God in Vedanta, you'll simply have to say that which is the truth has to be called as God.

00:35So Vedanta says there is me, there is the world. And I find that I keep getting deceived

00:40and wounded so frequently. And I have a proof. My inner situation is the proof that there is

00:46something wrong with my existence and my relationship with the world. So I want to

00:50understand who I am, what this world is all about, and what is the relationship between two of us,

00:55and how can I get rid of my suffering. That's Vedanta.