00:00In the Arab world, the survival conditions were very brutal.
00:05So, how did Prophet Ibrahim or Prophet Muhammad manage to awaken their consciousness?
00:11If you think of the process of the Quran,
00:15Prophet Muhammad used to go up a hill and sit there for long durations.
00:20That sitting alone for long durations is at the core of insightful realization.
00:26If you are someone who cannot be by himself,
00:30if you are afraid of being alone,
00:33if you cannot remain silent to yourself,
00:36you will never realize anything.
00:38The fact is, even if you go to the Paleolithic times,
00:42what you find is religion emerging in a very preliminary way.
00:47So, it's never specific to one geography.
00:50Where there is man, there is dissatisfaction.
00:53And where there is dissatisfaction,
00:56there is an inquiry into the reason of dissatisfaction.
01:00And that inquiry itself is called religion.
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