Beliefs Breed Conflict || Acharya Prashant

Do you now see why religions fight with each other? Because they are based on belief. And you now know why scientists cannot fight. Because doesn’t matter whether you are coming from Germany or US or India or any place. The facts of science remain the same.

Hence scientists will not fight. In fact, they collaborate. Scientists across countries and cultures collaborate. And religious people across cultures and beliefs they continuously fight because beliefs cannot match. Because stories cannot match. Because imaginations cannot match. Because my tradition told me God is red. His tradition told him blue. His tradition told him yellow, the white there and violet here.

We will all be very insecure because we cannot be secure without the truth. And we do not know the truth. We are just believing. So he comes to me and says God is red. I’ll say no my god is yellow and then we’ll fight and kill each other down. That’s what belief systems do. They breed violence. Truth cannot breed violence because truth is the same for all but beliefs will definitely be different for all. That’s belief.

Nobody knows anything. All have their stories. That’s belief. Spirituality is not belief. Please, please, please. In fact, spirituality is constantly sniffing for belief. And if I smell belief there, I’ll come hunting.