We talk about the 10, 20, or 100 indulging in active rioting but not the thousands and lakhs passively supporting them. If those thousands disappeared, would these few rioters survive? Had they known that displaying perverse attitudes in religion’s name would lead to social rejection, would they still dare? We fight because we are animals from jungles, sharing instincts with beasts. We require the Bhagavad Gita to transcend our animal disposition. Otherwise, we will remain violent.
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Questioner: We are talking in this classroom or auditorium but the others are doing something very dangerous. So that others are feeling insecure. How can we neglect that thing?
Acharya Prashant: See those who do all this irrespective of the side they come from, it doesn't matter whether it's a Ram Navami procession or a Muharram procession or a Christmas gathering. Those who are doing, think of where they are coming from. Think of the entire ecosystem that breeds such people and then also tolerates them.
I'm asking you, had we been really different as a society, would you still have those incidents? Do we want to blame an event or do we want to rather responsibly look at the entire ecosystem, please tell me. Whatever they are doing is more or less actively or passively socially accepted. That's why they can afford to do what they do. Had they known that for displaying all kinds of perverse attitudes and behaviors in the name of religion, they would be socially ostracized, would they have still dared to do what they are doing? Huh?
