Who Breeds Terrorists? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Religious fanatics and bigots - Where do they come from? || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Delhi (2023)

Transcript

00:00Terrorists sometimes hide in a particular house in a village.

00:03They cannot hide in that house if the rest of the village is not complicit, right?

00:09Now, do you want to blame that terrorist, that house, or the entire village?

00:13Those who are doing this, think of where they are coming from.

00:17Think of the entire ecosystem that breeds such people and then also tolerates them.

00:22I'm asking you, had we been really different as a society, would you still have those incidents?

00:28Do we want to blame an event or do we want to rather responsibly look at the entire ecosystem?

00:35I will live in my self-centered ignorance.

00:39See how animals fight?

00:40We will fight because we are animals.

00:43We require the enlightening effect of wisdom literature to transcend our animal disposition.

00:51And that's the entire purpose of spirituality, to take us beyond the bodily instincts.