Religious Conflicts || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Why can't the Sunnis accept Shias? Because we don't know what real religion is about.

00:04Such a small thing. You think you are discriminating against your neighbour.

00:08You are a Sunni, the neighbour is a Shia and you are saying, you know, you are not a proper Muslim.

00:13I am a proper Muslim. You are some kind of second grade Muslim.

00:17You think it is between you and your neighbour? No.

00:20It is the same thing that becomes World War III. It is not just between you and your neighbour.

00:24Religion is everything. That is nothing but dogma and desire and rituals.

00:28Why not have the right religion? That's what popular religion is.

00:32You have great diversity. If you go to Africa or to Europe, you go to America, you go to China or you come to India.

00:41The kind of religion that you find will be studded with diversity.

00:46You will say, this is different than this. Such diversity is in the field of religion.

00:51Behind the apparent diversity, there is a very basic, very primitive, a very shameful commonality.

00:58Desire. In all its diverse forms and appearances and differences, religion always and everywhere has been about self-appeasement.

01:09How can I appease myself? How can I gratify myself?