India's True Purpose || Acharya Prashant

Full video : When India disappoints a Western seeker || Acharya Prashant, on Upanishads (2022)

Transcript

00:00A lot of people from the West, they come to India thinking that the land itself will do

00:04something magical to them, the land will do nothing.

00:07What makes India special then, at least for some people, the right company, the right

00:11environment, the right process of self-enquiry.

00:15Now you have to then ask yourself, how much of self-enquiry did really happen?

00:20How much vulnerability did you really espouse?

00:24And it's a choice always to open up, to come close and say, I want to speak out, I want

00:29to confess, I want to talk about myself, not about the experiences I'm having in India.

00:34What is the point in coming to India and waxing eloquent about a particular wedding ceremony

00:41one sees or a particular thing one sees on the road or a particular thing one experiences

00:46in the apartment?

00:48Is that what one comes to India for?

00:50One comes to India to prove himself, to know himself.