India's Rich Culture || Acharya Prashan

Full Video: What kept Indian culture alive despite so many invasions? || Acharya Prashant, with SPA Delhi (2023)

Transcript

00:00What do you mean exactly by rich culture?

00:02What is this richness in culture?

00:04The fireworks that you celebrate so much in Diwali, do you think you are having fireworks

00:08three centuries back?

00:09Again that is something that has a foreign imprint on that.

00:12But today you say it's an inalienable part of my culture.

00:15What do you mean by your culture?

00:16What you call as your culture is largely the culture of those who invaded you.

00:20Were Indian women covering their heads in pre-Islamic times?

00:25Figure that out.

00:26How is it your culture now?

00:27It is the culture of the invaders.

00:29The same invaders that you hate so much.

00:31Pulao.

00:32Where is pulao coming from?

00:33Do you know where your aversion to alcohol is coming from?

00:35It is coming from the invaders.

00:37In your culture, alcohol was great.

00:39Not that everybody was a drunkard.

00:41But nobody was taking the issue of alcohol very seriously.

00:45Culture is time bound and must change with time.

00:48Do not take culture as sacred or holy.

00:51Satya is holy, not Sanskriti.