5 lessons modern India can learn from Indian mythology, according to banker turned bestselling author Amish Tripathi.
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00:00And the welfare of the human society cannot violate the rules of nature.
00:20There are certainly left-wing extremists who derived everything Indian and there are right-wing
00:34extremists who have bias against non-Indians and I feel wisdom is actually in the center
00:41and those of us who are in the center must speak loudly and speak clearly but most importantly
00:47speak politely.
00:48I genuinely believe our ancestors were very kick-ass and a lot of the wisdom that emerges
01:00from them is, we used to clearly say that look we don't have all the answers, right?
01:05There was a spirit of questioning and frankly I've said this repeatedly, if our ancestors
01:09were up in heaven looking down at us, they'd be embarrassed of us because we've achieved
01:14nothing as a modern country, we've achieved very little.
01:21Ravan was extremely talented and he had the blessings of Lord Shiva himself but his out-of-control
01:29ego used to cause so much problems for him.
01:33So that's something that we should learn that even someone as talented as Ravan, you know,
01:40he could meet a sticky end.
01:46Anger serves a purpose at times, no doubt.
01:48Sometimes you need anger to have the passion to rebel but unrelenting anger is like an
02:00ember, it just burns you from the inside out and Ravan suffered from that certainly, just
02:05unrelenting anger which would just corrode him from the inside.
02:08That's another thing that we should learn that anger is not something that you should
02:12hold on to, try to let it go.
02:19Mythology loving societies tend to be a lot more liberal, a lot more thoughtful.
02:25So the way to approach mythology is that it's a vehicle to learn some philosophies, philosophies
02:31that you can apply in your own life.