Why We Resist Reform? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00100 years back you would have said caste system, untouchability, not even untouchability, unseeability.

00:07There are certain people who are saying they cannot even be seen.

00:10These are great parts of our culture.

00:12Didn't you change that? Weren't there social reformers?

00:14Today we worship those social reformers.

00:16In their time, those social reformers, you threw mud at them.

00:20And you abused them. And you even wanted to kill them.

00:23And you said these people are destroying our culture.

00:25Because they are talking of abolishing child marriage.

00:29And they are talking of widow remarriage.

00:31And in our culture, the woman should be burnt on the pyre of the husband.

00:35These things are part of your culture.

00:37We are proud that we reformed and refined our culture.

00:42Aren't you proud of that?

00:43So, I am not discounting the importance of culture.

00:46What I am saying is, culture should be a shadow of the truth.

00:50Culture should be a follower of the truth.

00:55Culture should be a follower of the truth.

00:57Culture should be a follower of the truth.

00:58Culture should be a follower of the truth.

00:59Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:00Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:01Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:02Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:03Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:04Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:05Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:06Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:07Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:08Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:09Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:10Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:11Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:12Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:13Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:14Culture should be a follower of the truth.

01:15Culture should be a follower of the truth.