Full Video: Today's Buddha || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Ropar (2022)
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00:00Remember, the Buddha was in his 20s when he was wondering why does pure religion become so corrupted and when he had the guts to take up a humongous challenge, he said, I will cleanse religion, I will bring out the real essence of religion and all this in his 20s.
00:17When most people are just prisoners and slaves of their bodily instincts and their inner illusions, that's when he decided to act. Today we need hundreds of Buddhas. Obviously today's Buddha would not walk barefooted. He would probably not go village to village. We have better technologies to make us, help us reach out to people.
00:41But the core traits will remain the same. A very, very sharp and curious mind, deep compassion, detachment, not attracted, allured by money, power, family, a deep desire to cleanse religion. The traits we talked of are needed to be displayed. Hundreds of youngsters like you people.