Is UPSC a Modern Cult? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The UPSC Craze and Coaching Industry in India || Acharya Prashant (2024)

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00:00if you are preparing for UPSC. They will give you everything that you would normally find in

00:06religious imagery and discourse. Deities, songs, heroes, folklore, legend and the requirement for

00:15tapasya. You have deities, you have priests in the form of the coaching teachers and the ultimate

00:21reward is swarg or heaven. And once you reach heaven, you are guaranteed lot of milk, honey

00:28and women. Look at even the movies that they make. And if the reward is so great, why can't

00:35you pay handsome guru dakshina to the priest? It's an entire mental environment that has been

00:42created. The youth are being caged in a bubble. It's a mental thing. They suffer all kinds of

00:48humiliation in this process of preparation for a government job. Still they don't opt out. Why?

00:55Because they have been told that there is no other option.