Is Politics Worth It for Young Indians? || Acharya Prashant, IIT Kharagpur (2025)

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Video Information: 01.11.2025, IIT Kharagpur, Kolkata

Title : Should a Young Indian Join Politics? || Acharya Prashant, IIT Kharagpur (2025)

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In this video, Acharya Ji explains that witnessing is not something to be practiced or achieved, but our natural state that gets clouded by desires, fears, and attachments. When knowing feels uncomfortable or threatening, we avoid it and fall back on beliefs, which blocks clear seeing. True observation becomes possible only when these inner barriers are honestly identified and dropped.

He then examines politics, pointing out that governance is a functional necessity, but many are drawn to it due to attraction towards power rather than genuine concern for welfare. The real question is not whether politics is meaningful, but what truly motivates one to enter it.

The discussion also highlights how people often speak about scriptures without studying them, driven by cultural pride instead of genuine inquiry. Meaningful engagement requires deep reading, questioning, and intellectual honesty rather than borrowed opinions.

Finally, meaningful work is presented as something deeply personal, arising from self-understanding. Without knowing oneself, one cannot determine what truly matters. Real purpose comes from clarity about one's own life situation, not from imitation or social expectations.

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