Acharya Prashant asserts that the true opposite of a superstitious mind is not a scientific mind, but a spiritual mind. He criticizes the framers of the Indian Constitution for advocating for a scientific temper to eradicate superstition, arguing that this approach is ineffective because science and rationality cannot address the root of the problem. He explains that the ego is the fundamental superstition because it believes in its own existence when it does not truly exist. According to him, superstition is believing in something that is not there, and since the ego itself is the first such false belief, it is inherently superstitious. He notes that the fear of religious violence during the partition led the Constitution's framers to avoid spirituality, as they failed to distinguish between organized religion, which is a frozen belief system, and spirituality, which is an invitation to inquiry. Acharya Prashant concludes that education and rationality do not liberate one from superstition without self-knowledge. He points out the hypocrisy of educated people who mock tribal beliefs in magical rocks while they themselves harbor the superstition that external things like new jobs or relationships will bring them magical fulfillment. He emphasizes that internal superstitions are more vicious because they require great courage to remove.
