The sweet conspiracies of the Heart || Acharya Prashant, on Amritabindu Upanishad (2016)

Questioner (Q): What’s the difference between conspiracy and belief?

Acharya Prashant (AP): A conspiracy is a belief that you are quite clever. A belief is a conspiracy that is not known as a conspiracy.

A conspiracy is a belief that you are quite clever. A belief is a conspiracy that is not known as a conspiracy.

Q: So belief has conspiracy in it?

AP: Of course, but you do not know that you are conspiring against yourself. Why do you believe in something? You believe in something so that you do not have to know the fact. You say that you already know. You say, “I believe that I know, so I don’t have to know. “ This is your own inner conspiracy against yourself.

Q: Can we say that the difference between conspiracy and belief is that conspiracy has a motive behind it and belief does not?

AP: Belief too has a motive but that motive is a little subconscious. Every belief exists with a motive to frustrate the Truth, to block the Truth. There is no other motive of the belief. To believe is to say, “I do not need any observation because I already know.” That is what belief means.