What you call as God is a concept; Truth is not a concept. Therefore, you can have stories about God, various religions, and their miscellaneous beliefs. But you can have no story at all about Truth because it is that which is invariable. Time cannot change it, and it doesn't vary from person to person. Irrespective of your subjective state, it remains as it is. Truth just turns you silent.
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Questioner: Sir talking about beliefs. As we have been discussing about beliefs and its correlation with superstition, one question that a fifteen year old version of me would ask to myself, which I would fail to answer would be a question like; computer science was my favorite subject at school; I was in the ICSC school.
Before any other examination, history scared me the most. So, before history examination, I would spend more time praying to lord, rather than studying or going through the chapters of my book. But when the exam came for computer science, I hardly took the name of any lord or any God which I believed in. I worshiped him to the extent of prioritizing him over my duties.
So, the question that the fifteen-year-old would ask, would be: If the true divine power that we talk of or the general notion speaks of, is it something true? Is it belief? Or is it just a creation of the fear of the human mind? Because human beings are just afraid individuals.
Acharya Prashant: Wonderful! Great that you have opened up a new dimension to the whole thing. See, if there is something that exists differently as different thoughts among different people, it is obviously beliefs, right? If there is something you can invest yourself in today and discard tomorrow, that again is a belief, right? The God that the Hindu believes in is not the same God that a Muslim or a Christian or a Buddhist believes in. By definition it is belief. Correct?
