Full video: What kept Indian culture alive despite so many invasions? || Acharya Prashant, with SPA Delhi (2023)
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00:00Culture is man-made and it should keep getting refined continuously.
00:06Culture is something that pertains to a particular place at a particular moment in time.
00:12Culture is time-bound and must change with time.
00:15And it is already changing with time.
00:17Hundred years back you would have said caste system, untouchability,
00:20these are great parts of our culture.
00:22Didn't you change that? Weren't there social reformers?
00:24Today we worship those social reformers.
00:26In their time, those social reformers, you threw mud at them and you abused them
00:31and you even wanted to kill them and you said these people are destroying our culture
00:34because they are talking of abolishing child marriage and they are talking of widow remarriage.
00:39We are proud that we reformed and refined our culture.
00:43Aren't you proud of that?
00:44Similarly, culture should always keep getting refined with a view towards the truth.
00:50Do not take culture as sacred or holy.
00:53Satya is Sanatan. Sanskriti is not Sanatan.
00:56Sanatan means timeless. Sanskriti is time-bound.