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The Gita's Influence on Subhash Chandra Bose and Swami Vivekananda || Acharya Prashant (2023)
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Bhagavad Gita
Upanishads
Liberation
Consciousness
Subhas Chandra Bose
Spirituality
Slavery
Revolution
Description

Acharya Prashant asserts that true revolution is impossible without the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, which he defines broadly as a class of wisdom literature that uplifts consciousness from natural slavery to liberation. He explains that human beings are not born free; rather, birth itself is a state of bondage and slavery to impulses and biological conditions. Therefore, liberation is something that must be actively attained through spiritual education. He highlights that even revolutionaries like Subhas Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh, who are often viewed through a purely political or atheist lens, were deeply rooted in spiritual scriptures and the Gita. He argues that their external quest for national independence was a manifestation of an internal quest for spiritual liberation. Acharya Prashant defines spirituality not as rituals or traditions, but as the awakening of consciousness and the education of the self. He describes it as a process similar to a classroom lecture that incorporates psychology and neuroscience but adds the ego's urge for liberation and the highest order of love. He emphasizes that true 'bigness' or greatness is the prerogative of the Self, which is infinite and limitless. Since the material world is finite and can never satisfy the inherent hunger of the human mind, one must look toward the infinite to find true satisfaction. He concludes that without an internal fire for liberation, external actions remain lukewarm and lack the power to create real change.