Why the Big-Fat Wedding? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Weddings - why we all love them! || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Ropar (2023)

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00:00Why we Indians are so much crazy about big fat Indian weddings?

00:04We are very very close to the animals unfortunately in the sense that we too live lives that are very body centric.

00:13And because marriage is the biggest celebration that we have, that just proves that bodily pleasure is the biggest thing in our lives.

00:22Otherwise why would you celebrate so much? What's there to celebrate? Think of it.

00:25We are celebrating sex. A male body, a female body coming together and we have gone bazooka.

00:32The entire society is dancing. And if you just ask them a very objective question, exactly why are you dancing?

00:38What is this celebration all about? Nothing. Male cells and female cells coming together.

00:42That's the name of that celebration. And if you call it out in an obvious and flat way, very directly,

00:49everybody would be offended and they are offended just because they have never bothered to look at the mirror.

00:54They do not know who they are and why they are indulging in stuff.