00:00What you find in the Upanishads is unmatched.
00:03The Greeks were there at the same time and I love the Greeks.
00:06I have also taught Greek philosophy.
00:08The Chinese were there much the same period.
00:11But what you have in the Upanishads is unmatched.
00:14And yet we will continue in our same lowly condition
00:18if we do not totally reject that which we call as our Indian-ness today.
00:25Arjun in chapter 1, Vishadiyogh, represents the India of today.
00:28What he is narrating there as his problems, as his dilemmas
00:32are the problems, fears and dilemmas of today's India.
00:36How do we fight those we call our own?
00:38And if we all fight and if all the men perish,
00:41then we don't trust our women.
00:43They'll go and mate with those of the lower Varnas.
00:47Is that not how our relationships are?
00:48We don't trust our partners.
00:50And then they'll breed kids because all the Kshatriya men would be gone.
00:53So they'll mate with those of the lower Varnas and have kids with them.
00:57Our Indian-ness today.
00:59This is not Indian-ness.
01:00This is some hodgepodge coming from random incoherent sources.
01:05How does it help to have books around you
01:08or even the presence of the best teachers around you
01:12or the presence of great scholars around you
01:16if you have yourself not read those books?
01:19Or does it help?
01:20True Indian-ness waits to be discovered.
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