The Decline of Religion || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: What stops the youth today? || Acharya Prashant, in conversation (2022)

Transcript

00:00There is no way that a youngster of this age is going to accept religion.

00:04In the name of religion, all that we have is huge bundles of superstitions, traditions,

00:10beliefs and violent ignorance.

00:13So youngsters are either indifferent to religion and sometimes they actively hate religion.

00:19And a tiny cross section among them who has a thing for religion is actually turning bigoted

00:25and fundamentalist.

00:26So we do not have any truly religious people among youngsters.

00:31I'm talking of the spiritual mind, the mind that loves the truth, the mind that is sincere

00:36about life, the mind that does not want to spend itself in intoxication.

00:41I'm talking of that particular quality of mind, that's what I call as true religiosity.

00:46And that quality is becoming more and more difficult to find.