The God-Belief || Acharya Prashant

So I had like a lot of uh down times in my life. I was very down. Belief in God gave me a lot of hope. >> Belief in an external power God isn’t it first coming from belief in your internal powerlessness. I’m so disappointed. I’m so disappointed. There is somebody behind me ready to kill me. What do I need to take care of this disappointment and the fear?

Nothing. Just close my eyes and believe that there is somebody else protecting me. How? How? Instead of compensating for one belief with another belief, why don’t you inquire into the first debilitating belief itself? Are you really so weak, so fragile, so brittle that you have to necessarily go through as you said the down times? If you are feeling internally weak, instead of rushing after belief, shouldn’t you inquire why you are feeling internally weak?

Maybe you are feeling internally weak because you are carrying random expectations, dependencies or greed. Those things weaken you from within. But instead of dropping those things, you go and pray and start feeling relaxed that now you’ll be taken care of by an invisible energy. Instead of inquiring into those desires, instead of dropping those desires, you summon up, you conjure a big power outside of you. And then you go and you kneel and you say now my…