Spiritual Entertainment (Superhit!) || Acharya Prashant, Vedant Mahotsav at IISc Bangalore (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Pranam Acharya ji. I think, I love reading books, but I have read few books, those kind

00:15of books I have read actually. From there, I just got to know in most of the books what

00:22they have written was actually they go out of the world, they go to some place and they

00:26do sadhana and they get this realized. And the first question we had in the morning was

00:32like Mukti is not out of the world, it's a way of life. So here, they are going out of

00:38the world and they are doing that. And this is also conditioned in my mind. Is it really

00:43necessary or something? So can you just throw some light on that?

00:49I guess the Kaddu Ke Karname debate was settled long back. It seems you still want to pursue.

01:02How many of you remember Kaddu Ke Karname? See, is it not settled yet? Man flies out

01:11of his body and out of his body he divides in three. He is simultaneously there in Moscow,

01:23London and Hathras. Astrophysics, nice. It's also impressive. As impressive as those comic

01:46strips we enjoyed in class 3. The yogi has to be superhuman after all. So he will do

01:57unbelievable things. So nice, good entertainment. What do you want now?

02:05No, in these books I have read like they have gone out of the, I mean, what you call this

02:10normal world and they did intense sadhana for getting realized.

02:14Where have they gone? They have gone to the caves or Himalayas.

02:21So you can go there. So what will you find there? A cave is a cave. There are so many caves. So

02:31what's special about caves? The ancient man, all of them used to live in caves. What's so

02:43special about that? All of them were realized. Everybody was living in caves. They had nothing

02:49better to live in. What's this? My thought process, they just went to avoid this distraction

03:01from the world. So you can do that, fine. Live in a cave. What do you want?

03:08Basically, it's an escape, I feel. Come, let's go to a cave. Why do all this? Let's go and sit in a

03:30cave. It requires a separate and dedicated kind of research. What is it about caves that attracts

03:45so-called spiritual people so much? You don't have electricity there, you don't have water,

03:57you don't even have toilet paper. How will you manage your daily quota of tweets? What will you

04:10do in a cave? The cave will soon start stinking. Where will you wash your clothes? I'm asking a few

04:21basic questions. They'll sound not spiritual. And I'm asking you these things. What will you do with

04:26your clothes? Okay. But that's what again, hundreds of generations of ancient man were

04:42doing exactly that. And all the animals do that even today. They live without clothes.

04:49That leads to enlightenment or what? I think in those books, Acharya ji,

05:03they say that it's a realization of at one moment, it's a euphoria moment. That's what

05:10they say. Leave enlightenment. Did you enjoy it or not? So, just collect money. It's not

05:22about enlightenment. It's about entertainment. You got good entertainment, fine. You just wait.

05:33One day I'll write a great entertainer. Maybe I'll make you two a character in that. That's

05:44what you want. Thrillers and entertainers. Great VFX. Why are we talking about all these childish

06:01things? Somebody flying around. That person has nothing better to do than to fly around. Why are

06:08you flying around like that? Come down. If you get a paranormal power, will you choose to just fly

06:21around? What are you doing? It is kiddish. There is nothing in it. Forget about being impressed by

06:35it. How can you even take it seriously? It is meant for below average IQ kind of people. It

06:48is not for the consumption of people who can think and understand. It is for imbeciles whose

06:59discretion has been blunted by overdose of belief. Belief, belief, belief and decades and decades of

07:13indiscreet belief simply kills your faculty to investigate, know and separate the fact from

07:24fiction. Belief compounded with fear. If you don't believe, something bad will happen to you.

07:33That belongs to the same genre as the kind of people who leave comments on social media saying

07:46if you do not subscribe to my channel, your mother will die. And they get ample subscribers.

07:54The kind of stories you are talking of belong to the same genre as the one making that comment.

08:05The writers of these two are coming from the same place. They are exploiting your

08:11vulnerability to beliefs. They are exploiting your exposure to fear. They are exploiting your

08:23lack of certainty in the truth. They exploit your risk averseness. They know very well that

08:39they can serve any kind of horse dung to you and you will not comprehensively reject it.

08:49Because you want to play safe. You want to say what if I reject it and some harm comes to me?

08:55What if there is a 0.1% chance that all this is true? Why should I be the first one to run the

09:05risk? Everybody else seems to believe in it. Let me also believe in it. Let me belong to the crowd.

09:11That's what they are exploiting and they will continue to exploit you. Because where there

09:19is very little devotion to the truth, there is all kinds of vulnerabilities and fears.

09:27And when you are afraid, then you cannot resist anything. Then you don't have the courage to pick

09:35up the book, turn a few pages and just throw it away like this and think this is nonsense.

09:39The man of truth, instead of discussing that kind of book, will just dismiss it,

09:46throw it away. Throw it away and if it deserves to be taken a bit more seriously, then burn it.

09:54But we want to play safe. Why? Because we do not know. We do not know anything. We do not

10:05know anything for sure. So we are risk averse. Because there is so much uncertainty.

10:17So you say the man is speaking with such confidence. Maybe what he is saying

10:23sounds incredulous, but it's true. Maybe. Everything in life is maybe. We never did

10:30anything with certainty. Because certainty lies only in truth and to that we were never fully

10:38devoted. The punishment is the entire world will keep making a fool of us.

10:47They will serve you nonsense and you will not have the courage to kick it away.

10:52And with such great confidence, they have continued to serve us garbage, book after book,

11:04book after book. Sometimes the yogis are flying, sometimes they are dealing with disembodied beings

11:17and there is no outrage. People take it. So simply take it.

11:28In an awakened society, the writers and publishers of such books would have been

11:44taken to task, would have been dragged to the courts and put behind bars.

11:53How can you serve this kind of toxic nonsense to the entire society?

12:01Just to further your influence? Just to push people deeper into fear so that you can lord over them?

12:18When somebody is afraid, it becomes possible to control him.

12:23They want to keep you in fear. They can't keep you in fear of guns or other kinds of tangible

12:29power because they don't have that. And when they have that, they exercise that.

12:34But they also know that where even guns are ineffective, ghosts come handy.

12:42Because guns you can verify. The fellow will say, you know, I am pointing a gun at you and

12:46say there is no gun. But the fellow can say, I am carrying two ghosts with me.

12:51And you can't even verify. So it's very important to keep you in awe of ghosts

12:58so that you can be controlled. And when you can be controlled, then you can be exploited.

13:03The only objective is to exploit and exploit and exploit. And that's why the one word they are very

13:08scared of is liberation. Because liberation means fearlessness. If you are fearlessness,

13:16then they cannot exploit you. Then they cannot draw power from you. Then they cannot rob your money.

13:22So they'll never let you be fearless. Book after book will keep pushing you deeper into fear.

13:33By making you believe in the paranormal, extraterrestrial,

13:37super transcendental. The only thing common among all these is none of them are verifiable.

13:47None of them can be scrutinized or objectively verified.

13:50They will say the verification is possible only by the one who has experienced it.

13:59You say these things are possible only by the one who has experienced it.

14:04You say these things don't exist because you have not experienced them.

14:07But then that exactly is called madness. If there is something that only you can see and nobody else

14:15can see, then it is not called existence. This is called madness. How many fingers?

14:23Huh? How many fingers? Suppose she says 7. So is she a seer with paranormal powers or is she

14:34simply mad? That's what. If there is something that only the experiencer can verify, it is a

14:43state of madness. They say no, you have not seen ghosts. So you keep refusing. But we have seen

14:55ghosts. We have experienced ghosts. I am a ghost. You better give up the ghost and liberate the

15:06earth of your presence. Think, if ghosts are actually

15:21concluded to be non-existent, what will happen to all the guru shops?

15:27Just think, the guru economy will collapse.

15:31It is running on everything that is beyond this world. Hence beyond you. Basically what they are

15:36saying is there is something beyond you but not beyond me. I am special. So come to me,

15:40give me money, become my follower, wash my feet. Only I can experience those things.

15:49They are disembodied beings that only I can see. Or those who have been blessed by me.

15:55There are these 3 minions. Chela 1, Chela 2, Chela 3. This one is Bhut specialist,

16:02this is Chudail specialist, this is Preth specialist.

16:12And then he has the guts to write an entire book and it sells.

16:17That's why there is so much climate catastrophe. This universe deserves to

16:28come to an end. If books like those can sell

16:35and be mentioned respectively, then this world deserves to be destroyed.

16:42And be mentioned respectively, then this world deserves to come to an end.

16:51I think we are making the same mistake of giving that entertainment through those books. We see

16:56that ratings and everything and the mass is also paying those books and we don't use our

17:02investigation and buy those books. I think that's the mistake. And we are seeing those books without

17:09investigation. The entire mass is taking their books.

17:13And think how you just suspend your discretion and your faculty to enquire when you are reading all

17:21that. Just watch yourself. You don't even want to enquire and question what the hell is being written

17:27here. One thing that the Guru will always have in plenty is confidence. He will ooze so much

17:37confidence, you will feel scared of questioning him. He says, I captured the ghost. I did it.

17:48And he will say it with such a flourish. You are left with no reason or opportunity

17:56to doubt or enquire, let alone negate or refute. Not possible.

18:08And you are a poor ordinary man

18:14in self-doubt, in diffidence. And he says, what can you do now? Finished.

18:26We are materialistic beings. So, we can see only the body and the outer shell. So, you are over-odd

18:35in a very planned way through the weight of personality. All these bluffmasters,

18:44they cultivate their personalities in a way to intimidate you. Look at their dresses. Just think

18:52how much time they have given to their dressing and that will tell you all about their intentions.

18:56Why will a sane person with something proper to do in life give so much time to dressing? Think.

19:06Think. So much attention to dress is either by cinestars or models or by Gurus. What's common

19:17between the three? They want to capture you through their dress and personality. That's

19:23the very intention. Because internally they are anyway hollow.

19:28So, the only way they can dominate you is through their outer appearance.

19:38And because we are unable to penetrate

19:44beneath the surface, beneath the clothes and the persona,

19:49we are taken in, captured.

20:03In spite of having heard all this, the next time a Veti Guru comes to you, you will again be

20:11intimidated. That's the tragedy. You will again find yourself short of courage to stand up and

20:19squarely question him. The one art that the Guru has definitely mastered is the art of dominance.

20:31The one art that the Guru has definitely mastered is the art of dominance.

20:48And that's the reason why religion has earned such a bad name today.

20:55An entire generation

20:57is simply leaning away

21:04from any kind of religiosity. And probably rightly so.

21:13Because in the name of religion, mostly what you get is just exploitation from some kind of Guru

21:21or somebody. Why should you be religious? Better stay away.

21:31Better read thinkers, philosophers. At least there you are not exploited. Even if you don't

21:37get any great benefits, at least you are not exploited. Normal fiction you may read.

21:43But if you read so called spiritual literature, then there is no end to the toxic impact it has

21:54on your mind.

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