Exploitation of Religion || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The myth of 'Consecrated spaces' || Acharya Prashant, with SPA Delhi (2023)

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00:00It is this intellectless, thoughtless, mindless religiosity that has brought us down to our sorry state.

00:07It is not without reason that India suffered so badly for so many centuries.

00:11To me, the primary reason was misinterpretation and exploitation of religion.

00:16And that is still continuing.

00:17Also, in the last 10-20 years, that exploitation has somehow worsened.

00:22We thought that with the arrival of science and education and values of freedom and inquiry,

00:28superstition would reduce.

00:30But very strangely, that has not come to pass.

00:33What we are seeing is a phenomena in the opposite direction.

00:36More and more blind kinds of cults are rising.

00:40People are not reading.

00:41People are becoming more and more ignorant of their own central scriptures.

00:46In some cults, I have heard, reading is prohibited.

00:49They say, no, you don't read anything.

00:50Especially, don't read anything related to science.

00:52You just read these 3-4 books that our cult prescribes and become totally brainwashed.