Homeland vs. Abroad || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 It is extremely rare for people to return to their country and being a nationalist,
00:04 how can I contribute to my nation either by coming back to India or being settled there myself?
00:08 If India is just the birthplace of your body to you, then there is nothing special in India.
00:13 What is India really? Figure that out and then you will know whether
00:16 it is of importance to serve India. Just by being born here, you won't develop love.
00:22 You can develop some kind of an attachment to your territory, but that is not love.
00:26 An attachment does not have great power. So when America leaves, attachment is overpowered
00:31 and people fly away and settle in the US. I repeat, just by being born somewhere in India,
00:36 you do not become an Indian. You do not really grow love for India because
00:41 love requires understanding. To us, India is mostly about cheering the Indian cricket team
00:47 or sloganeering against rival countries. That's not what nationalism is, right?