You look at a person and you say, “This fellow gives me bad vibes.” Now, those bad vibes are your feelings about that person. But you are pretending as if your feelings are his quality. Vedanta says, “You are the source of all your experiences.” The cult of vibrations, auras, energies, positivity, and negativity — it is an enemy of self-observation. It will not allow you to look at yourself.
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Questioner: Sir, when it is said that a person or a place has positive or negative vibrations, you strongly disagree with this point of view. Why is it so?
Acharya Prashant: The reason is philosophical. The reason has its roots in Vedanta. But I’ll narrate it in layman’s language.
You remember the witch hunt? Have you read it? Medieval Europe. Women were declared to be witches and burnt alive, stoned, executed by various means the most ghastly kind of means possible. And what was the justification that was offered?
"I sense that the woman is evil."
In today’s language, they would have said, “She’s sending me negative vibes. She’s sending me bad vibrations,” or, as is the culture to say, “low frequency vibrations,” or “her aura is bad.” That was the kind of reason that was offered. Yes, it is true that often, when you look at a person or a place, you experience a certain feeling. In fact, that always happens. Even if you look at a stranger, there is a certain reaction that arises from within. Yes, that does happen.
