Discrimination vs Discretion ll Acharya Prashant

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00:00The constitution says everyone is equal but when we grow up in this country we are taught that

00:05everyone has a place whether that place is decided by their caste. There is diversity in the world

00:11and you cannot hold everything as equal so something has to be put above something else.

00:15Discrimination is based on my cultural conditioning, my physical conditioning or my blind

00:22desires. For example, if you are born in a particular family then you are higher than the

00:27other. That is the stupid kind of discrimination. Discretion we need. Discretion means I must know

00:34here are two books. I must know which one is useful to me in terms of giving me that which I

00:39really really really need. This is discretion. I will listen to one man because he belongs to a

00:45particular caste or because he's a Brahmin and a male Brahmin. Now this is the blind discrimination

00:50that we have to guard against.