🧔🏻‍♂ Want to meet Acharya Prashant? Be a part of the Live Sessions: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/enquiry?cmId=m00026 📄 AP Framework A Comprehensive Account of the Philosophy of Acharya Prashant 🔥 🔗 Read here: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/ap-framework 📚 Want to read Acharya Prashant's Books? Get Free Delivery: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/books?cmId=m00026 📝 Read 3 handpicked wisdom articles, just for you: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/articles?cmId=m00026&l=1 ➖➖➖➖➖➖ #AcharyaPrashant #आचार्यप्रशांत #Bharat #India #BuddhaPurnima #ModernBuddha #BuddhistPhilosophy #Compassion #Dhamma #Nirvana #IITRooper #BuddhaTeachings #ContemporarySpirituality Video Information: 16.05.2022, IIT-Ropar, Greater Noida, U.P. Title : What Religion Gets Wrong About Buddha || Acharya Prashant, IIT-Ropar (2022) Context: - In this video, Acharya Ji explains that a modern Buddha would retain the same essential qualities as Siddharth Gautama, even if the outer circumstances look completely different. The conversation begins with a student from IIT Ropar raising a sharp question on Buddha Purnima about how a Buddha would function in today's world, where extreme heat, vanishing forests, social norms, and political corruption make the traditional path impossible. Acharya Ji responds by first mapping the core traits of the historical Buddha: deep scholarship rooted in his time, exceptional perceptiveness and curiosity about life's suffering, radical compassion placed above law and convention, complete detachment from wealth, power, and family, relentless inner honesty that refused premature conclusions, and the practical intelligence to build an entire movement once realization was reached. These traits, not the barefoot walking or jungle wandering, are what made him the Buddha. Today's version of that being would simply use modern tools and platforms to carry the same mission forward. Perhaps most strikingly, Acharya Ji points out that the Buddha was doing all this in his twenties, at an age when most people remain captive to physical instincts and mental illusions. The real message for young people is that these are not rare gifts belonging to one historical figure but qualities hundreds of young people today can and must embody. ➖➖➖➖➖➖ 🎧 Listen to #AcharyaPrashant on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3f0KFwe... Music Credits: Milind Date ~ ~ ~ ~