Is India a Hindu Country? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why comment on her religion, when you don't know yours? || Acharya Prashant, at LIT-Nagpur (2022)

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00:00India was not secular even till 1950. It took more than two decades after 1950 for the word secular

00:07to enter the constitution. So it's not as if the Indian constitution is founded on secularism.

00:13Indian constitution is founded on something far deeper than secularism. The values underlying

00:20the constitution are actually spiritual. India is definitely not a Hindu country in the way

00:29the masses think of Hinduism these days. Not in that sense. However, if somebody illuminated

00:36from within is prepared to see that real Hinduism is actually just core spirituality,

00:43then probably you could call India as having Hindu foundations. And then you would be right.

00:48But those who throw jibes at you and ask you, oh, there was this India Pakistan match. Did

00:54you support India or Pakistan? They are definitely not Hindus of the spiritual kind.