How can we avoid being misled by people who are confident but wrong?
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How can we avoid ourselves being influenced by people who are confident and wrong? Yes, this is a major problem.
In the Bhagavad Purana it is said that the present age which is called Kalyuga. It is a satyatve dharshtam evahi. That means the more audacious a person, the more truthful they are considered to be.
In fact, Eric Globular, who was the associate of Hitler, he had that slogan. Tell a lie loud enough, long enough and bold enough. And people will believe it to be true.
So rather than just looking at the confidence of people, we have to look at the content of their speech and the content of their life. That means a person may be speaking very aggressively, person may be speaking very assertively, very confidently. But what are they speaking? Does it make sense? We have to use our intelligence.
We should not just let the appearance enamour us, infatuate us. We look at the content of their speech. And after looking at the content of their speech, we look at the content of their life as much as is possible.
If somebody says that, you know, you do this and you can become free from all negative behaviour, you can become free from all self-defeating behaviour. And then we find out they themselves are addicted to this or that. Then that means they are not walking their talk.
So that’s why we shouldn’t isolate the knowledge from the living. So if we observe people rather than just looking at their appearance, we look at the content of their speech and then we look at the content of their life. And if what they speak makes sense and how they live is congruent with what they are speaking.
If a doctor says Ayurveda is very good, if a doctor says allopathy is very good and then when his own son is sick, he is taking him to Ayurvedic doctor. That means there is a mismatch over there. So, by matching of these two things, by evaluating the content of the speech and checking for the congruency between the life and the walking and the talking, we can make well-informed decisions.
Thank you. Any other questions? Where is the mic? Can you give her? Yeah.