Accusing Gandhi Ji || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Gandhi: Assassinated daily, yet Immortal || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00that's the accusation against Gandhi. He made Indians into cowards. If that is the accusation,

00:05that accusation should not be reserved for Gandhi alone. Level that against, I am saying,

00:11all your rishis, sages, seers, saints, everybody, the entire line, the whole tradition,

00:17all the branches of the spiritual tree. Accuse them because all spirituality is fundamentally

00:22about looking at yourself first and then fighting the external battle. Nobody is asking you to not

00:28to fight external battles. You are being told first of all fight the inner battle and only

00:33that will give you the clarity and the power to fight the right external battles. Look at the

00:38battlefield of Kurukshetra for example. Krishna is not supplying Arjuna with weapons. He is

00:43supplying Arjuna with self-knowledge and Arjuna wins. Even to win the external battle, first of

00:48all you have to win the internal battle. Not without reason Gandhi used to say the Gita is

00:52like my mother.