The essence of India || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: Let's understand Nationalism || Acharya Prashant, with IRMA (2023)
Transcript
00:00I challenge you. How do you represent India to someone of another nationality?
00:06Tell me. How do you express what you mean by India?
00:10It is quite horrifying. But you have very little beyond the masala dosa.
00:14Quite horrifying. Like Bollywood, the Bhangra, the cow sitting in the middle of the highway that is.
00:20The monkey riding the elephant, peeing by the roadside.
00:24You would say Mahatma Gandhi.
00:26Or you would probably talk of the colours of Holi, the Kumbh Mela, Naga Sadhus, Yoga.
00:33Or you would probably talk of the Diwali lights.
00:36These are all good, nice, vibrant images of the Indian landscape.
00:41How can you fall in love with these?
00:43The identity of India, the root of the Indian nation is essentially spiritual.
00:48You devoid Indians of spirituality and they will remain Indians only in name.