Full video : Acharya Prashant meets his teacher Dr. Trilochan Sastry: Religion, Democracy & Constitution (2025)
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00:00The constitution says everyone is equal, but when we grow up in this country, we are taught that everyone has a place, whether that place is decided by their caste.
00:09There is diversity in the world and you cannot hold everything as equal, so something has to be put above something else.
00:16Discrimination is based on my cultural conditioning, my physical conditioning or my blind desires.
00:23For example, if you are born in a particular family, then you are higher than the other. That is the stupid kind of discrimination.
00:31Discretion we need. Discretion means I must know. Here are two books. I must know which one is useful to me in terms of giving me that which I really, really, really need.
00:41This is discretion. I will listen to one man because he belongs to a particular caste or because he is a Brahmin and a male Brahmin.
00:48Now, this is the blind discrimination that we have to guard against.