Organised Religion Outdated? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: India is too religious to be spiritual || Acharya Prashant

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00:00organized religion is nothing but a name of frozen methods traditions rituals they were designed to

00:06be helpful no doubt but over time they have all not only lost their efficacy but have actually

00:12become active instruments in the hand of maya situation has become so bad that the core

00:20spiritual documents like the upanishads people turned to reviling them actually putting them

00:27aside and denigrating them so that they can continue with the rituals and beliefs that they

00:34call as religion so for example if people are indulging in something utterly stupid and i ask

00:40them that this that you are doing is this written in gita they will say oh the gita is not all that

00:45important we have other books as well no that's utterly shocking i ask them yours is a vedic

00:50religion and this that you are doing is it sanctioned by the core of vedas which is vedant

00:57does vedant sanction what you are doing