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Full video: The Violence Hidden Behind Our Festivals || Acharya Prashant, PES University, Bengaluru (2025)
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00:00Thousands of fish wiped out in Mumbai's sacred Banganga tank allegedly due to severe water pollution from ritual offerings.
00:07Worship follows understanding. To worship something is to respect it in the deepest sense possible.
00:14If I do not understand this, on what basis can I respect this? What value does such worship have?
00:21So we offer shallow respect. We offer hollow worship, superficial.
00:26Internally we remain violent even towards the objects we worship.
00:30Respect is real only when there is a philosophical grounding to it.

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