Freedom Fighters and Gita || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Indian Constitution and Vedanta || Acharya Prashant, at SRCC (2023)

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00:00If you count the number of freedom fighters who took the Gita as their inspiration,

00:06you would run short of count.

00:09There are just so many.

00:10Think of Aurobindo, think of Telak.

00:12Even if you talk of a Bhagat Singh, he was an avid reader.

00:16And was he not placing the Gita in high esteem?

00:20He was.

00:20Even as he declared himself an atheist,

00:23what he meant to denounce was the gods that the commons worshipped.

00:26He had an unflinching faith in the truth.

00:30And Gita is not about God worship.

00:32Gita is about submitting yourself to the truth.

00:35Fighting for the truth alone.

00:37Even if it means fighting against everybody you have been related to in your life.