Communal Riots || Acharya Prashant

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Transcript

00:00Don't you see people die for their beliefs? Look at what happens in communal riots.

00:05People are prepared to lay down their lives.

00:08I will get killed but I will not change.

00:11And if you look at the course of history, people have agreed to get killed for all kinds of stupid reasons.

00:17We have killed and we have been killed for all kinds of nonsense.

00:22We find that easier.

00:24We find physical annihilation more acceptable than inner improvement.

00:29For human beings, ego is bigger than even life.

00:32If the human being can be changed, everything changes.

00:35The politics changes, the economics changes, the relationships change, the society changes and then the future changes.

00:41And if the human being does not change, nothing changes.