If you know no philosophy and you are just celebrating Holi, Diwali, or Eid, or Christmas, that's dumb. Very dumb. And you call that as your great culture. No, I will have to sacrifice goats. Bloodshed is the name of religion. What kind of religion? No crackers are needed, even if that kills the air. What is this? AQI of 1,400. But I don't bother. I'm a religious man. What are you celebrating?
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Questioner: I'm Shabnam Sheik. In India we worship women as goddesses, and we have festivals like Navratri, Kanjak, and Durga Pooja. And in the same country, we treat women as trash. We exploit them, we mistreat them, harass them, molest them. And the same happens with the cows. We worship cows and we call them Gau Mata. In many states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat, it's banned to eat beef, which seems all right. But India is also the third-largest beef exporter in the world.
So my question to you is, why do we Indians worship one thing and also exploit the same thing?
Acharya Prashant: Because we do not know what the word worship means.
Worship follows understanding. To worship something is to respect it in the deepest sense possible.
