India was a superpower in all possible terms and yet those lowly little Britons came here and colonized us. Is it possible? There is something fishy in the story. We don't want to go back and really read and figure out what really happened. We believe in this narrative: we were great, we were ‘Vishwaguru’. How can the land of the Gita be ever defeated? It was due to internal reasons that we got defeated and enslaved. And those reasons are still very much present today. Which means the fault is entirely our own.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. When the question of Indianness comes, I have historical questions. Like my friend said, there was a time when we used to lead in the fields of technology, science, medicine, trade, education and what not. It should have been the case that we should have led, but it happened that we became slaves of foreign powers. And it's not also the case that they were much in numbers. They were a very small population, and they enslaved us.
Acharya Prashant: Apply your common sense. Is it possible that the America of today is enslaved by, let's say, Cuba? Possible? They have tensions with Venezuela. Is it possible that Venezuela of today colonizes the US? Is it possible? Please tell me.
But we say India was a superpower in all possible terms, and yet those lowly little Britons came here and colonized us. Is it possible? There is something fishy in the story, right? And we don't want to go back and really read and figure out what really happened. We believe in this narrative: we were great, we were ‘Vishwaguru,’ we were ‘Sone ki chidiya.’
