Does Poor Mean Virtue? || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00It's not that the man in the village leading a slow life is virtuous.

00:05He is just deprived of opportunity.

00:08In fact, he might be as full of greed and ambition and aspiration and violence as anybody else

00:15and given a chance, he might shortchange you in the worst way possible.

00:19So it's not really necessary that if somebody is poor or slow,

00:24then that points at virtuosity.

00:26No way.

00:27But we have been somewhere taught to think like that.

00:31That there is a certain virtue in poverty.

00:33In India, we often refer to the poor as Daridra and Narayan.

00:37Daridra means poor and Narayan means God.

00:40Why?

00:40Give him a chance.

00:42Just give him a chance and he'll show you what he's capable of.

00:44He too is running the same race, just that he's a laggard.

00:47It's not that he has willingly opted out of the race.

00:51He is in the same race, just that he is not able to run that race properly.

00:56That's why he's been left behind.

00:57That's why he's been left behind.

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