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Exploitation of Religion || Acharya Prashant
Acharya Prashant
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8/9/2024
Full Video: The myth of 'Consecrated spaces' || Acharya Prashant, with SPA Delhi (2023)
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It is this intellectless, thoughtless, mindless religiosity that has brought us down to our sorry state.
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It is not without reason that India suffered so badly for so many centuries.
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To me, the primary reason was misinterpretation and exploitation of religion.
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And that is still continuing.
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Also, in the last 10-20 years, that exploitation has somehow worsened.
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We thought that with the arrival of science and education and values of freedom and inquiry,
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superstition would reduce.
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But very strangely, that has not come to pass.
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What we are seeing is a phenomena in the opposite direction.
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More and more blind kinds of cults are rising.
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People are not reading.
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People are becoming more and more ignorant of their own central scriptures.
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In some cults, I have heard, reading is prohibited.
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They say, no, you don't read anything.
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Especially, don't read anything related to science.
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You just read these 3-4 books that our cult prescribes and become totally brainwashed.
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