Culture vs Religion || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Acharya Prashant meets his teacher Dr. Trilochan Shastri: Religion, Democracy & Constitution (2025)

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00:00is the constitution in conflict with our religion and our culture.

00:04The constitution is already based on religion, the core of religion, which is Shruti.

00:08Even though the framers of the constitution have not looked at the constitution from that angle,

00:13but if I look at the preamble, if I look at the fundamental rights, if I look at the

00:16directive principles, if I look at the fundamental duties, what I see is Vedanta, which is Shruti.

00:20So, what you are seeing as a conflict between culture and constitution is in fact a conflict

00:27between culture and actual religion. So, if constitutional values are being seen as threatened,

00:33maybe a way to defend them is to revive actual religion. The more the actual religion is revived,

00:40the more we will see that our own constitution is already in harmony with the real religious values.

00:48And just for the record, while Dr. Ambedkar, one of India's great persons of modern India,

00:54he had problems with Hinduism and the culture, but he didn't have any problem with the Upanishads.