Why do we want to ‘see’ first and then believe? || Acharya Prashant, on Jesus Christ (2017)

Questioner: Dear Acharya Ji, Pranam!

Thomas had a great doubt about the resurrection of Jesus. Why is it so necessary for us to see first and then believe? Then after seeing we doubt our seeing. How do we rid ourselves of this suspicious attitude?

Acharya Prashant: It’s obvious Nimisha. We are people identified with the ‘body’ and the ‘senses.’ So we would believe only that which the senses tell us.

It’s not really necessary for everybody to visually, optically, see first and then believe. Such a thing is necessary only for the man who believes in his eyes. Only the man who believes in the world that he sees with his eyes would want the proof of Godliness admissible through the eyes.

He has already declared that what the eyes are showing to me is True. That’s his belief. That’s his fundamental assertion — “What my eyes are showing to me is True.”

So, when you would tell him that something is true, obviously he would demand that it would be visible through the eyes.

Isn’t it obvious?

He is saying, “What the eyes are saying is true.” He believes in the body, he believes in the eyes, he believes in the world. Now, you tell Thomas such and…