Full Video: GenZ: Is religion irrelevant today? || Acharya Prashant, in conversation (2022)
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00:00What are the good that religion has done to this world?
00:03The great Indian saint, Kabir Sahib, there are words from him, he said,
00:08ना होते जो सादु जन जल मरता संसार।
00:12He said, if in absence of religion, had religion not been there,
00:15the world would have simply burnt itself down to ashes.
00:20You see, man is a tremendous animal.
00:22Man carries all the instincts of animals
00:25with unmatched firepower in the form of intellect.
00:30Intellect that manifests itself as knowledge and then as technology.
00:35So we are animals with huge guns and nuclear arsenals.
00:40If we have even to this day managed to somehow survive with at least a bit of sanity,
00:48it is due to the becoming effect of religion.