Full video : Letting Go of Habitual Affirmations: Is It Key to Spiritual Growth? || Acharya Prashant (2024)
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00:00Religion is not nonsense. If you go to the core of religion, you will find everything there that nourishes life.
00:06In fact, you cannot carry on with life without being truly religious.
00:10When I make this statement, a lot of people get disturbed.
00:14They say, we understand when you say religion has something good to offer.
00:17But if you say religion is fundamental and indispensable, then we don't agree with you.
00:21My request to them always is to not to worry about agreeing with me, but to try to understand what religion really is.
00:29You don't really even have to start with religion. You have to start with yourself.
00:32Figure out who you are. Figure out where all your dissatisfaction and disquiet comes from.
00:38And then you will know what religion is.
00:40And then you will also know what should not be entertained in the name of religion.
00:4499% of the practices and traditions and beliefs and stories, they belong either to the museum or more correctly, to the wastebasket.
00:55The problem is the self-appointed meaning.
00:58The problem is the refusal to see that several parts of religious texts are irrelevant to this age and must be respectfully consigned to museums.
01:09That's the problem. Very respectfully. We are not being offensive here.