Questioning pseudo-science and superstition is the first step toward genuine freedom. Beliefs such as *Vastu, Kundli,* and *Muhurat* should not be accepted merely because they have been followed traditionally. Fear and attachment to privileges often prevent people from questioning authority. A truth-seeker must be willing to challenge age, status, and authority. Human progress has come through curiosity, inquiry, experimentation, and reason—not through blind obedience.
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Questioner: Hello, Acharya Prashant Ji. I'm Adarsh. I'm a B.Tech first-year student. I want to ask about the issue of pseudo-science, like its impact in our daily life, because it's in everyone's life. Everyone faces it day to day, like vastu, Kundli, and we take major decisions of our lives based on it, like which college to go, who to marry, when should we inaugurate anything, or those kind of things. And when we question it, we are just told, "It is being followed. You just follow it. Why do you have to question it?" And it sometimes frustrates us, and we can't even question it back. So how do we challenge it? Because we don't have that much liberty to question the elders.
Acharya Prashant: Am I not an elder?
Questioner: Yeah?
Acharya Prashant: How are all of you then raising so many questions to me? Liberty is not something that somebody gives you, some quota of. Liberty is who you are. Liberty is not even your birthright. Liberty is your inner, inseparable nature. You always have that liberty. The question should be, the more honest expression should be, "I do not exercise my liberty." Instead, you are saying, "I do not have that liberty." You have that liberty. You don't exercise it. You don't exercise it out of fear or greed. If you exercise your liberty, there would be consequences. That would be a hit on your interests. You don't want to run that risk, right?
