00:01Had the Chinese been as religious as Indians are, China's growth and development would have
00:09been impossible. Because common religion is centrally about having a wish-fulfilling
00:16supernatural power up in the skies, right? Some supernatural power is up in the skies
00:23and he controls my destiny. He plays me like the puppeteer plays the puppet. Their nation's
00:31growth is going to be about human volition, human decision, human discretion and human effort.
00:38It's not going to be about some God's divine grace. We are there and this earth is there and we
00:45have
00:45intelligence and discretion and we will figure out what to do with it. My destiny, my decision.
00:51No supernatural being is needed. And today, even when you have parlays and negotiations over the
00:57boundary dispute, the fact is that you have to negotiate from a position of weakness because
01:03religion is everything. If you are stuck with the wrong kind of religion, you always find yourself
01:10in a compromised position. If religion is everything, why do you have religion that is nothing but dogma
01:15and desire and rituals? Why not have the right religion? There is only one religion.
01:21Know who you are and then simply let things happen.
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