00:00Think of a Bhagat Singh who had to write an entire volume titled May Nastik Kyo Hoon?
00:07Why am I an atheist?
00:10Think of why Bhagat Singh needed to do that.
00:12He was a spiritual person to the very core.
00:17But then the word spirituality and the word religion and the word dharma
00:22have been monopolized and hijacked by the very wrong kind of people.
00:26And he didn't want to belong to those people because belonging to those people would have simply meant
00:33yielding to temptation and surrendering to authority.
00:39Bow your head down wherever you find power and privilege.
00:43Surrender to fear and greed.
00:46Keep prostrating in front of your masters.
00:50And Bhagat Singh is a rebel.
00:52Therefore he had to simply say no no no I don't belong to you.
00:54If you call yourself Aastik then I am Nastik.
00:58Because you have monopolized the word Aastik therefore I am opting out and calling myself Nastik.
01:05One thing is certain I am not one of you.
