Full video: The myth of 'Consecrated spaces' || Acharya Prashant, with SPA Delhi (2023)
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00:00A Muslim passes in front of a mosque and the kind of experience that he gets is not the experience that a Jew would get passing in front of the same mosque or a Hindu would get passing in front of the same mosque.
00:10It's all very subjective. It's within you. It's not in that structure.
00:15What can be in the structure is something else.
00:18There can be beauty in the structure.
00:20There can be sophistication in the structure.
00:23Also, there can be one more thing in the structure, very important.
00:26The structure can have great pointers towards higher values.
00:33And then the structure really becomes a living story.
00:37The structure then becomes a teacher.
00:40The structure is now teaching you something.
00:42But for that to mean anything, you must know what the meaning is.
00:46But do you know what the meaning is?
00:47If you do not know what the meaning is, how have you just blindly started parroting sacred, sacred?
00:53Do you get this?