Why do you think Spirituality is illogical?

Acharya Prashant
5 min readApr 1, 2021

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Acharya Prashant: (Reading out question) “Sir, you are a very logical person, why do you present yourself as a spiritual person?”

Should I answer the question or the assumption? Where do you pick such jewels from, Gaurav (Questioner)? Your assumption is that spirituality or religion is anti-logic or illogical. From where are you getting it? I am not blaming you for asking this question. I am just alarmed. There is some source in your life from where you get a clear idea that spirituality and logic do not go together.

Spirituality is the very zenith of logic, Gaurav. Spirituality and logic go hand-in-hand. It is just that Spirituality is so deeply logical that a point comes when logic cannot keep up with it. So spirituality and logic go hand-in-hand and at some point, logic gets tired and falls down and Spirituality still keeps going. Then you say that spirituality has surpassed logic, transcended logic. But in surpassing logic, spirituality never becomes illogical or anti-logical. There is nothing in spirituality that will be against logic; it can be beyond logic, all right, but never against logic.

Now from where are you getting these ideas? Surely, you are influenced by people who talk of Spirituality or…

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