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लफंगों को तुमने हीरो बना लिया? || आचार्य प्रशांत के नीम लड्डू
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4 years ago
Cinema
Media
Ego
Faith (Shraddha)
Entertainment (Manoranjan)
Kabir Saheb
Saints and Sages
Idols/Heroes
Description

Acharya Prashant questions who our heroes are, asking if the most popular actors have ever portrayed a character that shows faith. He asserts that while people claim faith is the highest value, their heroes and heroines have never enacted the role of a faithful person, and questions if they are even capable of doing so. Instead, these actors have extensively played roles that glorify the ego, with characters boasting, "I am this, I am that," and "I will do this, I will do that." He connects this to the widespread ego in the world, stating it's no surprise when the heroes people idolize are themselves like this. He explicitly states that most of society's poison comes from cinema halls. The speaker argues that many of these actors are incapable of playing any decent role. He asks who among today's artists could portray Kabir Saheb, suggesting that the top heroes lack the necessary understanding to do so. He explains that both the actor and the director lack any proximity to the teachings of saints like Kabir, Meera, Ashtavakra, or Buddha. In contrast, they are very familiar with and easily portray rowdiness, misbehavior, and obscenity because they come from such a world. Their world has no place for the likes of Kabir. Acharya Prashant extends his critique to all media, calling what is offered as entertainment a "mental disorder." He explains that the word "manoranjan" (entertainment) is actually the act of staining the mind. The rest of the media promotes this by making irrelevant people and their obscene pictures relevant. He describes this as a conspiracy to suppress the names of great sages like Jiddu Krishnamurti or Ramana Maharshi, while promoting the most vulgar and useless people and events.