Indian Culture || Acharya Prashant

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

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00:00In the name of culture, all that we know of is the stuff that we saw in our houses till a few decades back.

00:06And we think that is Indian culture.

00:08Just because your grandfather was doing something, how does it become Indian culture?

00:12Do not tell me from where does the ghoonghat come?

00:14You know the tribes belonging to Arabia that used to practice purdah?

00:19That was a cultural thing there.

00:20But today, if you locate a woman wearing a sari and practicing the ghoonghat,

00:24you will immediately say, oh, she is a cultural woman.

00:27If a foreigner came to India, he would say,

00:30chewing the betel, the betel nut with supari and katha and chuna

00:34and spitting it out selectively on white walls is Indian culture.

00:39Because that's what everybody was doing in India.

00:42And do you want to retain that or do you rather want to improve?

00:45And how do you know what is good in your culture?

00:47That which leads to the truth of the Upanishads and Gita is good.

00:52That which you are just blindly practicing is bad.

00:54It's simple, is it not?