Full Video: What is secularism? How to become secular? || Acharya Prashant (2018)
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00:00Only a truly religious person can be secular in real term.
00:05When you say that X is a secular person, what you mean is that he is prepared to read the Quran even if he is a Hindu.
00:14And that he is prepared to respectfully go to the Upanishads even if he is a Muslim, right?
00:19When you say that a country Y is a secular state, what do you mean?
00:23You mean that in that country, people are not discriminated on the basis of their professed religious association, right?
00:31If this is what you want, then you should be deeply religious.
00:34In secularism, you want to be equanimous.
00:37But who teaches you equanimity? Religion.
00:39In secularism, you want not to hurt the other even if the other is holding beliefs that go against yours.
00:47But who teaches you Ahinsa? Religion.
00:49So obviously you see that secularism and communalism are at odds with each other, but not secularism and religiosity.