Is India Hindu Country? || Acharya Prashant, at LIT Nagpur (2022)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why comment on her religion, when you don't know yours? || Acharya Prashant, at LIT-Nagpur (2022) Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10SHCThAI-0&t=0s  Video Information: 22.11.2022, LIT- Nagpur, Maharashtra   Context: Acharya Prashant speaks at LIT on what it really means to be a Hindu at LIT ~ Who is a Hindu?  ~ What is the significance of Vedas?  ~ Does religion teach violence?  ~ How to stop conversion of religion? ~ Why harass Muslims? ~ Indian Constitution is found on Vedantic Values ~ Torturing innocents an act of bravery?  ~ What is Sanatan Dharma?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00 India is definitely not a Hindu country in the way the masses think of Hinduism these

00:14 days.

00:17 Not in that sense.

00:18 However, if somebody illuminated from within is prepared to see that real Hinduism is actually

00:30 just core spirituality, then probably you could call India as having Hindu foundations

00:37 and then you would be right.

00:40 But those who throw jibes at you and ask you, "Oh, there was this India Pakistan match,

00:46 did you support India or Pakistan or things like that?"

00:49 They are definitely not Hindus of the spiritual kind.

00:55 So they are not entitled to claim that India is a Hindu country of their kind.

01:05 Is it getting too complex?

01:09 Young people, are you getting it?

01:13 At the root of it all, there is ignorance regarding the basic nature of both Hinduism

01:22 and India.

01:26 This will be a little heavy, so you will have to understand this.

01:30 Hinduism is not what people seem to be practicing today, that too in an aggressive manner.

01:39 That's not Hinduism.

01:41 Actually over the last 10-20 years, a very rabid, very virulent version of Hinduism has

01:49 surfaced and that Hinduism claims that India belongs to itself.

02:00 It does not.

02:04 First of all, one has to understand what the Hindu religion is all about.

02:09 Hindu religion is not about sloganeering on the roads, targeting this group or that group,

02:16 throwing hate all around.

02:18 No, that's not Hinduism, not at all.

02:22 And all those people who do this, ask them, "Do you know anything about the central scriptures

02:30 of your religion?" and they will draw a blank.

02:37 Now what kind of Hindus are these, who know neither Ved nor Vedant?

02:45 Ask them about the Aasthik Indian darshans and they will stare at your face.

02:56 But very proudly, they declare themselves to be Hindus.

03:02 How exactly are you a Hindu?

03:07 Forget about Nyaya and Vaisheshik.

03:11 I ask you the fundamentals of the topmost Indian darshan Vedant and you will try to

03:23 change the topic.

03:24 You will say, "Let's talk about something else.

03:27 Let's talk about the Islamic threat to India."

03:31 I'm asking you, "Sir, you are speaking as a Hindu.

03:35 Please tell me something about the Brahma Sutras."

03:40 And you don't know that.

03:43 But you are very concerned about the Islamic threat.

03:49 And we can talk about the Islamic threat as a separate topic that probably does deserve

03:55 to be discussed.

03:58 But right now, because all your discourse begins with the claim that you are a Hindu,

04:07 let me first of all ascertain that you are indeed a Hindu.

04:10 How are you a Hindu?

04:17 How do you qualify to be a Hindu?

04:18 Just because you are born in a Hindu family, so you qualify to be a Hindu.

04:24 But you have no humility at all.

04:30 Not only do you not see that you are not a Hindu in the first place, you want to impose

04:38 your kind of ignorant version of Hinduism upon the entire country.

04:46 That's what your entire attempt is.

04:48 You are saying my Hinduism means the kind of culture I follow.

04:52 And anybody who subscribes to this culture is a Hindu.

04:57 How exactly?

04:58 What culture do you follow?

04:59 What are the roots of this culture?

05:01 Where does it come from?

05:02 Have you ever tried to understand, ever made any study?

05:06 No, you have never done that.

05:10 It's just that the tradition of the past 100 or 200 years has handed over a particular

05:14 culture to you and you think that culture is Hinduism.

05:17 No, not at all.

05:18 Thank you.

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