The Struggle Didn’t End at 1947 || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: Indian Constitution and Vedanta || Acharya Prashant, at SRCC (2023)
Transcript
00:00Where is the Indian constitution really coming from?
00:03Please think of it.
00:04Most of those who were in the constituent assembly were also freedom fighters.
00:09Were they not?
00:10Think of them.
00:11Were they not freedom fighters?
00:12So it is coming from the spirit of freedom.
00:15Mind you, not even the spirit of independence, but the spirit of freedom.
00:19And the spirit of freedom is over and above the spirit of independence.
00:23It was not just an Indian independence movement, it was a freedom movement.
00:27What is freedom?
00:28Freedom was not just about replacing the Union Jack with the tricolour.
00:33That was independence.
00:34That was political independence.
00:35Freedom meant much more.
00:36And the project of gaining freedom was to continue even after 1947.
00:43If you would ask a Bhagat Singh, he would say that the revolution must be on even in
00:492023.
00:51It was not supposed to come to a standstill or a conclusion in 1947 or 1950.
00:57No.