Javed Akhtar accused Sadhguru of ‘playing dangerous game’ with devotees: ‘He’s using his brain, doesn’t want you to use yours’

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During the conversation, the two also had a heated debate about faith. “Anything that is devoid of reason, rationale, evidence, witness is faith. I really wonder what is the difference between faith and stupidity, because stupidity has the same definition. I am willing to accept ‘belief’, but it has to have rationale.” Sadhguru responded, “The way this is going, it’s coming from a certain presumption. When I met Javed saab last time, he was telling me that some guru told him not to use his mind. I do not know which guru said this, but one thing is clear, the advice has been taken seriously.” Javed retorted, “I promise you guru ji, I have never taken any guru seriously.”

In a more recent interview with Mid-day, he reflected on his argument with Sadhguru, and made fun of the ‘pompous’ questions that were raised about the reason for human existence. Javed Akhtar said, “It is a pompous question posed by homo sapiens. It doesn’t mean anything. You are redundant, like a blade of grass. You will never say that about an ant, about a cockroach, about a mosquito. You are the same, just a little bigger. In this universe, which is billions of years old, we die in 70-80 years. We are nothing.”