Full video: Dealing with negative vibrations || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Pilani, Goa (2022)
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00:00We don't care about what the actual meaning of the festival.
00:03So there are so many misconceptions, there is so many stupidity in the society that goes on.
00:08How do we avoid all that?
00:09We just believe.
00:10The spirit of exploration, inquiry, investigation is not there.
00:14We do not know a thing about the objective world.
00:17We also do not know a thing about our religions.
00:20So we do not know why festivals exist.
00:22We have no idea at all.
00:23We just celebrate.
00:24So Diwali is just about crackers and lights and sweets and gifts and such things.
00:30Any festival.
00:31Bakrid.
00:32And it has become, to the vast majority of Muslims, a day of slaughter.
00:35What is this?
00:36Are festivals about such things?
00:38What is Holi?
00:39The day when you throw balloons at all kinds of people, especially girls.
00:43Christmas is all about consumerism, shopping.
00:46You shop right till the new year eve.
00:49There are 40 times more ridiculous kinds of beliefs circulating and people are damn serious
00:56about them.