Full Video: Letting Go of Habitual Affirmations: Is It Key to Spiritual Growth? || Acharya Prashant (2024)
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00:00There is a section of Hindus who have been exploited in the past, so they would drop Hinduism and take to Buddhism.
00:07Their grievances are real and factual, there has been definite exploitation in the past,
00:13but because of that exploitation, they believe that religion itself is nonsense.
00:19Now religion is not nonsense.
00:21If you go to the core of religion, you will find everything there that nourishes life.
00:27In fact, you cannot carry on with life without being truly religious.
00:32But to try to understand what religion really is, you don't really even have to start with religion, you have to start with yourself.
00:38Figure out who you are, figure out where all your dissatisfaction and disquiet comes from,
00:44and then you will know what religion is.
00:46And then you will also know what should not be entertained in the name of religion.
00:5199% of the practices and traditions and beliefs and stories,
00:57they belong either to the museum or, more correctly, to the wastebasket.