Let's ask a buffalo || Acharya Prashant, IRMA (2023)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Query from North-East: Does imposing a common culture unify us? || Acharya Prashant, IRMA (2023) Link:      • Query from North-East: Does imposing ...    ➖➖➖➖➖➖  ‍♂️ Want to meet Acharya Prashant? Be a part of the Live Sessions: https://acharyaprashant.org/hi/enquir...  ⚡ Want Acharya Prashant’s regular updates? Join WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va6Z...   Want to read Acharya Prashant's Books? Get Free Delivery: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/books?...   Want to accelerate Acharya Prashant’s work? Contribute: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/contri...   Want to work with Acharya Prashant? Apply to the Foundation here: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/hiring...  ➖➖➖➖➖➖  Video Information: 13.04.23, IRMA (Online), Greater Noida  Context: ~ Does imposing a common culture result in unity? ~ What are 5 examples of unity in diversity? ~ What is the culture of unity? ~ Why is cultural unity important? ~ What lesson do you get from the unity of culture?  Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00 A buffalo comes and the buffalo looks at the two of us.

00:07 And if the buffalo were wise, we are appending the whole thing.

00:10 Now the buffalo is wise and you are being zanoor.

00:13 Were the buffalo wise, what would the buffalo find in common between the two of us?

00:25 We are both bipeds.

00:28 We both have the same physique.

00:35 That's a difficult question.

00:47 I am not really sure, sir.

00:52 So there is the instinct to know.

01:00 Buffalos since millions of years of their existence have never wanted to really understand

01:08 what is it to be a buffalo, what the grass is like, where does the thunderstorm come

01:12 from, why is the grass green at all.

01:18 Buffalos don't reflect or meditate, buffalos are never keen to reflect, realize, understand.

01:25 No buffalo ever asked herself the question, who am I?

01:30 Now this one comes with a disclaimer.

01:31 I am not a buffalo, so I can't be entirely sure.

01:34 But just looking at buffalos from where I do, I do not think that they are introspecting

01:38 or meditating.

01:41 They continue in the way they are, right?

01:43 You're born a buffalo, you live as a buffalo, you die as a buffalo.

01:46 There is no urge to rise, to know and to be liberated from inner ignorance.

01:56 So that's what unites me and you.

02:01 And then that alone has to be the basis of our community, our society.

02:13 All our rules, laws, policies, conventions, customs have to be founded on the underlying

02:20 unity, the unifying principle.

02:22 The unifying principle is liberation.

02:26 Liberation beyond liberty.

02:28 Liberty is good, but liberty is a small thing.

02:31 Liberation is beyond liberty.

02:34 Liberation, understanding, realization.

02:40 So if, as the head of the government, I have to impose a policy, the policy will say, you

02:46 know, in this area you cannot remain uneducated.

02:54 Because being a human being, obviously you have to know, you want to know, you must know.

03:01 So kindly have the basic education.

03:02 If you have arrived here uneducated, we will ensure, we will subsidize and we will have

03:08 you educated.

03:09 And that's what is common between all the people, the residents, the citizens here.

03:15 We all are educated.

03:18 Now that's the foundation of our unity, our education.

03:24 You are educated, so am I.

03:25 So the two of us have something in common.

03:28 You have an urge to understand, so have I.

03:31 And that's what we have in common.

03:35 So what does that mean?

03:36 That means systems will be transparent.

03:39 Because I want to know and the system doesn't want to reveal, now there is a conflict.

03:44 So systems have to be transparent.

03:48 Professors in universities have to be accessible.

03:54 Systems have to be continuous and practical and grounded in reality.

04:07 Are you getting it?

04:13 And that's when we can say, you know, yes, yes, yes, we belong to this place and this

04:18 is what we have in common.

04:22 But if you say we belong to this place and what we have in common is the language, then

04:27 that's not a very sustainable basis of unity.

04:31 Because you see that's an exclusive basis, it excludes, right?

04:36 It says someone speaking some other language comes here and we will treat him as an alien.

04:42 Someone comes here whose facial features are different and we will call them by some name.

04:50 Some not so pleasing name.

04:54 Right?

04:55 No, no, no.

04:58 The buffalo does better than us when it comes to these things.

05:04 There is very little, there is very little evidence of color based discrimination in

05:11 the buffalo universe.

05:14 Or in the cow or goat or camel universe.

05:16 We have not seen that.

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