Only a Religious person can be Secular || Acharya Prashant (2018)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: What is secularism? How to become secular? || Acharya Prashant (2018) Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G776o-aBco8&t=0s  Video Information:  Shabdyog session, 31.10.2018, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India   Context:  ~ What is the real meaning of secularism? ~ Who can be a secular person? ~ Is any religious person a secular person? ~ Is religion teaches secularism?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00 When you say that X is a secular person, what you mean is that he is prepared to read the

00:14 Quran even if he is a Hindu and that he is prepared to respectfully go to the Upanishads

00:23 even if he is a Muslim.

00:26 When you say that a country Y is a secular state, what do you mean?

00:35 You mean that in that country people are not discriminated on the basis of their professed

00:42 religious association.

00:51 If this is what you want, then you should be deeply religious.

01:01 Who teaches you equanimity?

01:05 Religion.

01:07 In secularism, you want to be equanimous.

01:15 But who teaches you equanimity?

01:17 Religion.

01:18 In secularism, you want a certain detachment.

01:21 But who teaches you detachment?

01:24 Religion.

01:26 In secularism, you want to be respectful towards divergent opinions.

01:33 But who teaches you to be respectful towards divergent opinions?

01:39 Religion.

01:42 In secularism, you want not to hurt the other even if the other is holding beliefs that

01:56 go against yours.

01:59 But who teaches you violence?

02:02 Religion.

02:05 So truly religious person and only a truly religious person can be secular in real terms.

02:19 In other words, if secularism is dear to you, you will have to turn to religion.

02:27 If secularism is in strife with religiosity, it means both

02:45 are misplaced.

02:50 The religiosity is fake and the secularism is shallow.

03:01 You need not teach a truly religious person to be secular.

03:05 In fact, secular is such a small and shallow word in front of religion.

03:13 If one is deeply religious, truly religious, then one is not only secular, one is way way

03:21 beyond secular.

03:28 Secularism only wants you to tolerate differences.

03:33 True religion celebrates differences.

03:44 So when you will talk about secularism to a truly religious person, he will laugh.

03:50 He will laugh not because he opposes secularism.

03:53 He will laugh because he has gone beyond secularism.

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