Was Gandhi Ji Coward? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Gandhi: Assassinated daily, yet Immortal || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00That's the accusation against Gandhi. He made Indians into cowards. If that is the accusation,

00:05that accusation should not be reserved for Gandhi alone. Level that against, I'm saying,

00:11all your rishis, sages, seers, saints, everybody, the entire line, the whole tradition,

00:17all the branches of the spiritual tree. Accuse them. Because all spirituality is fundamentally

00:22about looking at yourself first and then fighting the external battle. Nobody is asking you to not

00:27to fight external battles. You are being told first of all fight the inner battle and only

00:32that will give you the clarity and the power to fight the right external battles. Look at the

00:38battlefield of Kurukshetra for example. Krishna is not supplying Arjun with weapons. He is supplying

00:43Arjun with self-knowledge and Arjun wins. Even to win the external battle, first of all you have

00:48to win the internal battle. Gita is about Krishna helping Arjun to win the internal battle. Not

00:53without reason Gandhi used to say the Gita is like my mother.