Culture Must be Ever Changing! || Acharya Prashant

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

Transcript

00:00Culture is man-made and it should keep getting refined continuously.

00:06Culture is something that pertains to a particular place at a particular moment in time.

00:12Culture is time-bound and must change with time.

00:15And it is already changing with time.

00:17Hundred years back you would have said caste system, untouchability,

00:20these are great parts of our culture.

00:22Didn't you change that? Weren't there social reformers?

00:24Today we worship those social reformers.

00:26In their time, those social reformers, you threw mud at them and you abused them

00:31and you even wanted to kill them and you said these people are destroying our culture

00:34because they are talking of abolishing child marriage and they are talking of widow remarriage.

00:39We are proud that we reformed and refined our culture.

00:43Aren't you proud of that?

00:44Similarly, culture should always keep getting refined with a view towards the truth.

00:50Do not take culture as sacred or holy.

00:53Satya is Sanatan. Sanskriti is not Sanatan.

00:56Sanatan means timeless. Sanskriti is time-bound.