Forget God; attend to the cat || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Acharya Prashant

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Forget God; attend to the cat || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Question: Sir, you said that facts lead to Truth. Can we say that only facts can lead to Truth?

Acharya Prashant: Facts take us to the door of Truth. After that, one never knows what will happen.

If you want a more definitive statement, a more definitive statement is: *facts give you freedom from illusion*.

That is a more definitive statement .

Listener 1: And isn’t that Truth?

AP: Freedom from illusion? Not yet, not yet.

L1: What is left then?

AP: You are still at the gate. Just said, that all observation is subjective. The subject is still left. So facts will give you freedom from a lot but the one who kept gathering the facts, a bit of him is still left. It’s like you are asking everybody to leave the room, and after everybody has left, you are still left. Just a little bit.

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