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Real Secularism is Religious || Acharya Prashant
Acharya Prashant
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5/13/2025
Full Video: What is secularism? How to become secular? || Acharya Prashant (2018)
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Only a truly religious person can be secular in real term.
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When you say that X is a secular person, what you mean is that he is prepared to read the Quran even if he is a Hindu.
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And that he is prepared to respectfully go to the Upanishads even if he is a Muslim, right?
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When you say that a country Y is a secular state, what do you mean?
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You mean that in that country, people are not discriminated on the basis of their professed religious association, right?
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If this is what you want, then you should be deeply religious.
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In secularism, you want to be equanimous.
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But who teaches you equanimity? Religion.
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In secularism, you want not to hurt the other even if the other is holding beliefs that go against yours.
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But who teaches you Ahinsa? Religion.
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So obviously you see that secularism and communalism are at odds with each other, but not secularism and religiosity.
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