India Forgot To Think || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Do Indians respect excellence? An inside story || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Ropar (2023)

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00:00The professor came and schooled it. He said, you slaves of the West always looking for Western appreciation.

00:05Sir, sir, sir, one little thing. More than half the cases you teach here are from Harvard and Stanford.

00:11And what is that thing called the Harvard stares? And then you say that we should not be looking at the West.

00:16India just stopped thinking. India stopped being original. We bypassed the mind.

00:20The thing is, please appreciate the cardinal mistake.

00:23Even to go beyond the mind, you have to first of all use the mind to the fullest.

00:28There is no other way. You cannot just arbitrarily drop the mind.

00:32To go beyond life, first of all, you have to go fully through life.