India is not this || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: The Foundation of the Indian nation || Acharya Prashant, on Vedanta (2021)
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00:00How do you represent India to someone of another nationality?
00:04Tell me.
00:04When you go abroad, how do you express what you mean by India?
00:07Beyond the area on the map, what does India mean to you?
00:10It is quite horrifying.
00:12But you have very little beyond the masala dosa.
00:14Or maybe you have a few other things.
00:16Come on, like?
00:17Like Bollywood, the Bhangla, the cow sitting in the middle of the highway that is.
00:20The monkey riding the elephant.
00:22These are all good. Nice.
00:23Vibrant images of the Indian landscape.
00:26Can you fall in love with these?
00:28It's not so easy loving masala dosa.
00:30Or is it?
00:30That's the entire thing.
00:31We do not know what India stands for.
00:34To love you need something that's sublime.
00:36Something sacred.
00:38Something worth worshipping.
00:39And it's a sad thing that that which is worth worshipping does exist in India.
00:45But is often not deliberately introduced to us.
00:49The root of the Indian nation is essentially spiritual.
00:52You devoid Indians of spirituality and they will remain Indians only in name.