Nation's harmony at stake? || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Religion and Violence || Acharya Prashant

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00:0010, 20 or 100 people who engage in active violence.

00:04Behind that display of active violence,

00:06there is a lot of passive toxicity.

00:10And from where does that passive toxicity come to the society?

00:13It comes from a few nodes.

00:14TV, social media, some other places.

00:16When that toxicity is coming to you

00:19as a general member of the society,

00:21then you don't resist.

00:22But when there is arson and looting and murder and rioting,

00:26then you start saying,

00:28why are these people actively fighting each other?

00:30All of us are responsible

00:32when that act of looting or rioting happens.

00:36We will fight because we are animals.

00:39We require the enlightening effect of wisdom literature

00:44to transcend our animal disposition.