If you are religious, then shouldn’t you be truly religious? Religion is about a total commitment to the Truth. You’ll have to recognize that the objective of religion is not to attain heaven, not to please a holy figure, but to come to your own inner Truth. All good books exist to awaken your consciousness. When it comes to you and the Truth, do you want somebody in between? And wherever you spot fakeness, falseness, hollowness or ignorance, drop it.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji, and I am a first-year student of PG at IIT Kanpur. So my inclusion is that when I see religious practices, particularly in my household, I see some practices that are going without some rationale, like our forefathers did it so we are doing it. But I want to introduce that rationale to my family, to my elders like my father, my other sister, and my grandfather. So for that, how should I approach them, or how should I discuss it with them, so that it does not affect their faith and it does not offend them?
Acharya Prashant: You’ll have to tell them that the objective of religion is not to attain heaven, not to please a holy figure, but to come to your own inner Truth. And that is sacred. You’ll have to tell them.
Questioner: I’m a Muslim.
Acharya Prashant: You are a Muslim. Be it a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, anybody, the highest objective of religion is Truth. Your family would understand the word
