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रतन हुआ रैंडी, आनंदी हुई ऐंडी || आचार्य प्रशांत के नीम लड्डू
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Inferiority Complex
Westernization
Language
Culture
Devanagari Script
Identity
Internal Slavery
Religion
Description

Acharya Prashant illustrates a point by giving an example of a person named Mohan Verma whose Twitter handle is 'Gary Cool'. He questions how Mohan Verma became Gary Cool and why no one asks about this transformation. He states that people do not even want to understand what is really going on in their minds or the reason behind their actions. He contrasts this by asking if anyone has ever seen a foreigner, like James, change his name to an Indian one like Janmejay or Janak, which does not happen. However, in India, if someone has a beautiful name like Janak or Jaimini, their name is immediately changed to James. He explains that this happens because 'you are scared, you are bowed down, you are ready to lick soles.' He further exemplifies this by describing a boy and a girl in Kanpur who converse in English, which he sarcastically calls 'Mashallah' (wonderful), noting that their English is so poor it would make a native speaker doubt their own language skills. He questions why they must converse in English, stating the reason is clear even if one wants to remain in self-deception. He explains that religion is connected to culture, and a major pillar of culture is language, which cannot exist without a script. If the script is lost, the language is lost; if the language is lost, the culture is lost; and if the culture is lost, religion is lost. Acharya Prashant extends this chain, stating that from religion comes the individual, the person. He points out that even on Hindi channels, comments are written in English or in Hindi using the Roman script, with the Devanagari script rarely seen. He urges people to use the Devanagari script for their comments, emphasizing that by losing the script, one is not just losing their script but their very existence ('hasti'). He concludes that this is the psychology of today's Indian youth: they consider themselves very smart and cool, but are, in fact, a shrunken creature severely afflicted with an inferiority complex, unaware of how scared, poor, bowed down, and living in internal slavery they are.