Hindu Scripture || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Why do even educated people believe in caste? || Acharya Prashant, with Delhi University (2023)

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00:00The thing is, in Hinduism, there are so many books, like hundreds of books that you call

00:05a scripture. This is a problem that most other religious streams don't face. There is a central

00:10book and that's such a great thing to have. But in Hinduism, not only do you have hundreds of books,

00:15first of all, most people do not know which among these is central. Secondly,

00:21if there is a central book in Hinduism, most of the other books totally violate that central book

00:27and yet people continue to follow the other books. The net result of this is that some very

00:33obnoxious beliefs continue to prevail because they get their sustenance from some verses of

00:41some scriptures. Those books are not fit to be called scriptures, but popularly they continue

00:46to be. What to do with that? We need education. We need education of the self. And if you are

00:52to call yourself a Hindu or a Sikh or a Muslim, then you need to be educated in at least your

00:58own scripture.