Vedanta vs Western Philosophy || Acharya Prashant, Vedanta Mahotsav (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 What you call as Western philosophy, including the ancient Greek philosophy, it is a product

00:16 of thought.

00:20 You think and then you come up with something.

00:25 So, Vedanta, instead of being a product of thought, instead of being downstream in the

00:37 flow of thought, goes right to the source of thought upstream.

00:43 Now, how do you link these two?

00:49 One takes thought as just thought and all the divisions within thought are discarded

00:56 with a disdainful swipe of hand.

01:00 Ah, means nothing.

01:02 So all the different kinds of philosophies that you have, they are all bundled into one

01:10 as waves of the mind.

01:14 The interest of Vedanta does not lie in the content of mind, in the waves of mind, in

01:20 the products of mind, but in the genesis of mind.

01:26 What is the mind?

01:28 Where does it come from?

01:30 Where does it want to go?

01:37 So calling Vedanta as even philosophy, to me, is a bit of a problem.

01:50 Because philosophy is somebody's thought.

01:53 Here there are questions and factual answers and nobody can dispute those facts because

02:02 they are universal.

02:06 They belong as much to you as they do to me as they did to the ancients.

02:11 So it's hardly a philosophy.

02:16 There is nothing in it to believe.

02:20 You question and you proceed.

02:23 You see and you proceed.

02:27 So it's a different genre.

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