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Full video: What kept Indian culture alive despite so many invasions? || Acharya Prashant, with SPA Delhi (2023)
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00:00When a woman wears saree and covers her head, you say, look, lajja, this shyness, this modesty
00:07is Indian culture.
00:08Were Indian women covering their heads in pre-Islamic times?
00:13Figure that out.
00:14How is it your culture now?
00:15It is the culture of the invaders.
00:16The same invaders that you hate so much.
00:18And you use your culture to hate them.
00:20The fact is even your culture is coming from the invaders.
00:22Pulav.
00:23Where is pulav coming from?
00:25Most of the food items on your plate today, you'll not like it when you hear where they
00:29are coming from.
00:30And many food items that you do not like today, they were originally a part of your culture.
00:34For example, somras.
00:36Today you say, all the sanskriti vadis will say, alcohol is so bad, alcohol is so bad.
00:41The thing is, if you go to the Vedas, continuously when the rishis are praising som, Indra is
00:47especially fond of som.

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