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Only a Religious person can be Secular || Acharya Prashant (2018)
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12/29/2023
Full Video: What is secularism? How to become secular? || Acharya Prashant (2018)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G776o-aBco8&t=0s
Video Information: Shabdyog session, 31.10.2018, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
~ What is the real meaning of secularism?
~ Who can be a secular person?
~ Is any religious person a secular person?
~ Is religion teaches secularism?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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When you say that X is a secular person, what you mean is that he is prepared to read the
00:14
Quran even if he is a Hindu and that he is prepared to respectfully go to the Upanishads
00:23
even if he is a Muslim.
00:26
When you say that a country Y is a secular state, what do you mean?
00:35
You mean that in that country people are not discriminated on the basis of their professed
00:42
religious association.
00:51
If this is what you want, then you should be deeply religious.
01:01
Who teaches you equanimity?
01:05
Religion.
01:07
In secularism, you want to be equanimous.
01:15
But who teaches you equanimity?
01:17
Religion.
01:18
In secularism, you want a certain detachment.
01:21
But who teaches you detachment?
01:24
Religion.
01:26
In secularism, you want to be respectful towards divergent opinions.
01:33
But who teaches you to be respectful towards divergent opinions?
01:39
Religion.
01:42
In secularism, you want not to hurt the other even if the other is holding beliefs that
01:56
go against yours.
01:59
But who teaches you violence?
02:02
Religion.
02:05
So truly religious person and only a truly religious person can be secular in real terms.
02:19
In other words, if secularism is dear to you, you will have to turn to religion.
02:27
If secularism is in strife with religiosity, it means both
02:45
are misplaced.
02:50
The religiosity is fake and the secularism is shallow.
03:01
You need not teach a truly religious person to be secular.
03:05
In fact, secular is such a small and shallow word in front of religion.
03:13
If one is deeply religious, truly religious, then one is not only secular, one is way way
03:21
beyond secular.
03:28
Secularism only wants you to tolerate differences.
03:33
True religion celebrates differences.
03:44
So when you will talk about secularism to a truly religious person, he will laugh.
03:50
He will laugh not because he opposes secularism.
03:53
He will laugh because he has gone beyond secularism.
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