Religion and Food || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Look at the kind of delicious food that you get in the name of religion.

00:08Ordinary food is no match at all to holy food.

00:15No wonder people want to turn holy.

00:19In the name of religion, you want to slaughter animals and say,

00:22we want to distribute the flesh, the meat to the poor and the needy.

00:28Do the poor and the needy need meat?

00:31Or education for their kids?

00:34Or a roof over their head?

00:36But then holy food has to be delectable.

00:43Finger licking delicious.

00:46So, no ordinary thing would do.

00:49It has to be fresh mutton.

00:51Do you see what mankind has been attempting since centuries?

00:56To satisfy taste buds and yet claim divinity.

01:01Go to any place of worship and see the food lip smacking good.

01:11Loads of sugar and dairy and everything.

01:18Now food is not sin.

01:24But partying in the name of liberation is hypocrisy, if not sin.

01:33Why call it a place of worship?

01:36Simply say restaurant with subsidised meals.

01:40Do you understand this?

01:42All religion is marked by things that please the senses and the desires.

01:50Make a list.

01:52And you'll see it's unending.

01:54Going home is an exception.

01:55And the reason for your life is that it can be remained empty.

01:57At least you cannot be in the city unless you want to buy me.

01:58So you can look at these different things.

01:59How many of them?

02:00Talk to your audience after the story,

02:02Take care.

02:03Take care.

02:04Say it.

02:05Watch out.

02:06Bye.

02:07Bye.

02:09Bye.

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02:12Bye.

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