Obsessions of Indian Intellectuals - Part I - Dr. Kapil Kapoor - India Inspires Talks

In this talk, Dr. Kapil Kapoor shed light on psychology of Indian Intellectuals with especial focus on their obsessions. Few things that these intellectuals are perennially worries about are: caste, sati, superstition, minorities, gender and about the environment especially about whatever Hindus do, is polluting.
These intellectuals are to be distinguished from Hinduism's traditional men of knowledge, or Rishi-s. The Rishi-s were devoted to the welfare of society, and they encouraged responsibility, self-reliance and cheerfulness. By contrast, our present "intellectuals" are only Buddhi-Jivi-s, those who "use their intellect to make a living".
They have certain typical characteristics:
• They are worried, with a perennially worried look on their carefully careless-looking faces.
• They have a sense of bad luck. Thus, why did they have to be born in a poor "developing country" rather than in America?
• They bemoan everything. They are like Rudali-s, professional mourners; these intellectuals mourn all the time.
• They suffer from a Hanuman complex. Hanuman was so strong that the gods were afraid of him and cursed him to forget his strength until someone would remind him. So, they forget about the past glories of their own civilization.
• They have a Tittiri complex. The Tittiri is an Indian bird that sleeps on its back with its feet skywards, as if supporting the heavens so that they don't fall. Likewise, the intellectuals think that their enduring concern is needed to save India.
• And a little extra to cap it all: intellectuals are good at talking about a book without having read it. This they call "meta-study". (Or as their hero Ayatollah Khomeini said about Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses: "You don't need to jump into a dungheap to know that it stinks.")
Thanks to Dr. Koernaad Elst for this apt summary of Kapil Kapoor’s talk.
Full text is available here - koenraadelst.bl...
About Dr. Kapil Kapoor
Dr. Kapil Kapoor is an Indian scholar of linguistics and literature and an authority on Indian intellectual traditions. He is former Pro-Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and served as professor at Centre for Linguistics

[@aryamahima3]

Totally agree sir. I lived first 28 years in Haryana, Delhi, Haridwar. Then I went to Canada. I almost cried there. Then I came to Germany. Mai over react nhi kr rhi par Bharat jaisa aura nhi h kahin bhi. I feel blessed to be born in India.

[@kmrsong]

Proud of you

[@sgt92]

Come back if possible..

[@rahilsoni1539]

Why u cried, what's difference, just wanted to know ?

[@kamalwadhwani4732]

DR. KAPIL KAPOOR IS A GIANT, AFTER HEARING HIS FIRST HAND, PROFOUND AND EXPOSITION OF CONCEPT I HAVE REACHED TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE IS COMPLETE INSTITUTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND MOREOVER WISDOM TOO.

[@harir3628]

Read book BEING DIFFERENT by RAJIV MALHOTRA also BREAKING INDIA by RAJIV MALHOTRA

[@usc4405]

Cant believe its a 4yr old comment. And it took lock down to get me watch these treasures on yt. I will read Rajiv ji. Im currently reading Sanjiv Sanyals book.

[@harishgolwalker8018]

Marbles

[@user-xx4gm3sq5p]

Snakes in the ganga by Rajiv Malhotra.

[@bejoy0007]

There is a big need and market in re-educating the modern Indians.

[@chandermohan1134]

Yes, they need to be reclaimed from the bogus and stale colonial theories.

[@venkatraman42]

Dr kapil Kapoor is the real intellectual . Great talk. Inspiring and enlightening

[@viveknsharma]

Kapil Sir is Genius Indeed... Very Very Very Prolific Beginning... FIRST 8 MINUTES...

[@usc4405]

🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻even after 8 mins

[@karunkumar7107]

Awesome Thesis Topic: Present day Indian Intellectuals as Rudahli

[@anupamr437]

Person like Dr. Rajiv Malhotra and Dr. Kapil Kapoor are the torch bearers of the new India based on Indic Sanskriti.

[@dearkrish1]

Awesome! Nehru & his dynasty did great harm to this great culture & nation.

[@rrsk88_farming]

True

[@rajagopalvasuthevan8734]

just english please dont detour into vernacular

[@liliesandtulips2000]

The tragedy is, this damage and destruction is still going on . Oh God please save my motherland. Jai Bharat

[@asmitaapardesi405]

Great irony! Those who built the strong base of this country are now branded as anti-nationals and now who undermine the basement of this country are saviours! Most ridiculous !

[@goognamgoognw6637]

I am not indian but i find this talk very interesting. I too have stopped watching tv and reading newspaper many years ago. more people are doing so but not the young generation who might be the most ever brainwashed.

[@harism5589]

Very nice presentation of the topic- Our inferiority complex as compared to Westerners. British and others ( French, Dutch, Portuguese etc. ) came and systematically invaded our land by creating East India company. Later they destroyed our industry and took all the wealth. Finally left us in very poor conditions. We grow up in such poor conditions ( as compared to West) made us think we must be inferior compared to these "invaders". We forgot why Christopher Columbus and Vasco De Gama risk their lives and went on mission to search for India. They were in search of the enormous wealth and knowledge. Also bashing Hindus has become guarantee of votes for Politicians. This is going to back fire us and further polarize and divide our society and country.

[@abhinaykumar7708]

He is living legend of India 🙏🙏

[@Neerurocks]

He opens our eyes on various topics which highlights that India was a great country and we can become again but by not being western obsessed

[@ctallovesyou]

These kind of people gives me hope that I am still alive else all others self proclaimed intellectual are too depressing let alone news sellers.

[@shivcharanagarwal2977]

Jyotish rahu

[@chandermohan1134]

Yes, that is why readership of the newspapers and viewership of TVs etc. have gone down largely.

[@Pujaksr]

Wish had him as a professor. Urge this video to be shown in all school n college within India

[@123lenu]

Always a treat to listen to Dr. KK, A few good people with few good listens is enough to bring change. India inspires is a platform to meet those few good speakers.

[@NarasimhanSN]

What a depth of knowledge & understanding ! Amazing !!

[@dr.emmadisrinivasrao3846]

wonderful analysis of an Indian intellectual and his mode of thinking

[@Amareeka]

"टटीरी complex" the best term for left intellectuals.

[@mangeshramane]

Mind blowing , Awesome. What a kwowledgable person!. This lecture really enters in my chitta. I really admire you Sir. Thanks for such an eye opening video.

[@srisairam3367]

Thank you Kapil Sir, Sashtanga namaskar to this great person. 🙏🙏

[@purnimabhatnagar4435]

very enlightening lecture.

[@user-mf2sc8xu6v]

🙏🙏 सादर प्रणाम आदरणीय 🙏🙏

[@oraclenaveen]

i also stopped watching TV.

[@Amareeka]

I watch with open mind, means critically.

[@jorgerafaelvidela4479]

Television = Tell Lie Vision

[@ankithooda1536]

He is a good teacher. Will hear him more.

[@badbhanu007]

amazing and wow......i just feel like keep on listening to him.

[@bharatchauhan7805]

Inspiring and knowledgeable lecture, thanks you shri kapil kapoor

[@manozsharma2000]

Great stuff

[@rajeshdangar7915]

What is an intellectual? 16:38 , in India 19:38 , 34:50 cultured person

[@arpandey6296]

Who are finding his words still apt. in 2020....??

[@valuableaditya]

2023

[@vineeth2946]

I feel blesses to get this opportunity to learn from this teacher . I am hearing this now five years passed , but atleast now i got the chance. Thank you

[@HarshalShirude]

very nice, thank you..

[@sanjeevanysudha8187]

Brilliant presentation. But I have faced this following situation.... I got into a train to go home and there on the floor .. banana peal, peanut peals. my feeling then........ I agree we are nice people. And the same way we do not throw waste product on the floor of our home or the floor of the people we are visiting, we can apply the the same restraint for the structures of our nation , and use the wide spread waste bins. The talk was really awesome. This is just my own experience. I completely agree with the statement that no matter how clean our surrounding is, it will become ugly if those who inhabit the place are of unclean minds. They will pollute the environment by there actions. But at the same time those with a clean and clear mind will strive to keep their surrounding clean both by speech and by action , for themselves and to a greater extent for others. I whole heartedly agree that there is too much unneeded self-criticism , though awareness is also important, but our intellectuals are only about blame rather than coming up with solutions to dissolve the source of any problem. Thank you for listening to me.Please take my opinion kindly. Namaskar!

[@ShobhitJrPal]

Real indian intellectualist

[@jyotivyas9286]

नमस्कार✌️✌️✌️🙏🙏🙏🤝🤝🤝💐💐💐🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏽‍♀️गुरुजी Kapil hee Kapoor. महान से भी महान🙏🙏🙏💓💐💐💐😭😭😭इनको श्रवण करना है मुझको। 🙏🙏🙏💓💐💓💐💓😭😭😭 धन्यवाद।

[@Alann_Walkerr]

Wonderful topic and the content indeed

[@manoranjandutta989]

Exhilarating to listen and learn from a great scholar.

[@sekarsekar3919]

Excellent sir, Namaskaram.

[@vijnanabandhu2167]

the mind of our most 'eminent' intellectuals works this way : they have to necessarily pul down India, reduce its historic achievements, accentuate its demerits & blame it on Hinduism, vedas, Brahmins, Aryan invasion, etc.. If they don't do this, they are afraid, there may increase a feeling of positivity about India among Indians, which ight lead to nationalism, which might lead to fascism, which may finish off all Musims frm this land. Hence all the drama

[@priyak3107]

Wonderful wisdom

[@sushant3201]

Awesome discourse. सराहनिय प्रस्तूतिकरण। आप तो ज्ञान के भंडार हैं और वार्तालाप प्रभावशाली हैं. Discovered this video accidentally.

[@bharatchauhan7805]

Very great lecture

[@nanjappa42]

Truly learned exposition, using Indian technical terms! So elevating.

[@Ranjankumar-bo2hq]

Very knowledgeable video.

[@abhijeettiwari3018]

Pranaam sir

[@DHARMYOGCOM]

Great lecture

[@charanjivsingh4776]

Great respect for you

[@vansh_seth]

Great lecture 🔥💯

[@purnimabhatnagar4435]

respected sir I am a teacher of english and i find criticism paper with the most recent western theories terribly disgusting and boring when compared with our classical Indian criticism.

[@deepu__]

Great lecture sir!

[@essenceofmelody1315]

Bas sunte hi jaye......treat for the ears & mind...

[@mohanpuri2736]

very very good

[@rensidaniel]

Sir kindily correct audio of lecture

[@lookthetop1702]

Fantastic speech. Deserve more views.

[@user-jb4yq5rb2r]

Very well said ..

[@yogesh___]

If he doesn't get atleast a Padma award I won't be voting for BJP in 2024 🙏🙏

[@abhijeettiwari3018]

He got it bro Though sir deserves Bharat Ratna for his great contribution for India and Hinduism especially encyclopaedia of Hinduism

[@greatbalance]

Overall very inspiring talk, but with some errors in details.

[@RajendraChhimpa]

wow sir

[@poojasivasubramanian]

You missed Maha periyavar of Kanchi Sir..

[@pavanp5268]

Good one sir. Wow.. What an analysis..

[@satyajitkanjilal3674]

Wonderful sir

[@MrinalM.]

Modi government should make sanskrit necessary in schools so that today's youth can learn read our great ancient literature and learn about its greatness and don't come under influence of foreign culture and media and feel ashamed of its own religion.

[@avi2125]

Kapil Kapoor ji is the Punjabi-uncle-next-door... 😂😂 Just fun listening to him ramble... 😁 - "I stopped reading newspapers...ghar wapsi...ghar bahar jana...kuch chalisa padha karo..."😀😀

[@dontwannabefound]

He’s awesome

[@rajeshkumar-pl3jg]

Sir g... pehle soch (khayal) aati hai ya ....pehle hum soch lete hain ? 2..Soch (khayal) kanha se aata hai? 3.. sabad aakash me hai... Ya ..sabad me aakash hai ? Plz. Sir give me answer

[@Boloniece]

Unhone example Diya hai, khayal aya buddhi me in, vagindriyon usko vyakta Karna hai, Kasey? How is speech produced? When vocal cords vibrate the air inside carries the sound. He says vibration energy was there, it was just given a form of sound. Complex? I also thought so. But we can think and look for answers

[@chandermohan1134]

These said intellectuals or more accurately Macaulay children still live in the colonial past and its dated colonial theories. In fact they have an obsession with them. They just abhore fresh and new ideas and originality. This is their gainful and secure profession since several generations or even centuries.

[@bharattanti2541]

Sir India inspire ki video dekhne me acha Lagta hai par jyadatar video English me rahti hai so jyada samajh me nahi aata so I request u sir Hindi me bhi video banaiye

[@nanamirge]

Sir grate..... You're...

[@bharatarya3588]

Hindi me bhi sir please

[@atharvas4399]

why are people like him not building our nation?

[@riaagarwal6840]

"naturally fair and handsome" complex???

[@beginingofbegining]

The Video description needs to say who Dr Kapil Kappor is.

[@gauravlath19]

beginingofbegining Dr. Kapil Kapoor is a legandary Sanskrit professor of our current era n a real true Indian intellectual n of-course a former JNU Sanskrit scholar! Just stat listening to him n u can hear him the entire video!

[@adetya88]

beginingofbegining Ten minutes through, I got what you mean. Is this the time to try and reconcile Vedic Metaphysics and the western philosophic positivism?

[@gauravlath19]

Just need to visit Vedic metaphysics as per today's circumstances!!!

[@rrsk88_farming]

Modi ji is the only solution

[@deepu__]

Intellectuals thinks that they are the olny true thinkers and upholders of the society.

[@HD-hh8hj]

🙏🙏🙏

[@shankarshukla8045]

I don't agree with Avdeshanand and Murari bapu but I'd suggest to hear jaggi wasudev he's far more good thinker

[@vinodkumarjain3957]

Check his past tooooooooo

[@ketankotalwar6471]

There is haze in leter part of the video, totally disgusts the video experience.

[@greatbalance]

I don't think it's right to say like he says, that "cleanliness is a state of mind". This is the wrong message to send out. If there is garbage and filth in trains, then it is visible to the eye and sensed by the nose. The example he gives is very silly - that you will find dirty people more hospitable than clean people. Why can't we be clean and hospitable? Proper disposal of garbage is good for everyone's health and well-being. Our ancient scriptures never condoned being filthy. "Shuchi" of various types and levels are always prescribed.

[@kamarajupranav2013]

greatbalance a

[@jayaneti3358]

Does this chap sit with a Harijan and eat or take a glass of water from a harijan or low caste. I bet he will say he/she is not clean. Preaching is at best

[@joyjeetchowdhury]

When i was in school, none of us were aware about SC, ST, OBC. It was in 9th standard, that we finally came to know about the certificates and stuff like this. Still one of us has any bad feeling for anyone. Now if you are talking about wearing skull cap on ramzan and janeu during election. So sorry bro, your measurement for a person is pathetic. Have you ever had dinner with xi xing ping? If no, Does it means you hate chinese and you are racist? Or did you had dinner with arab sheikh? If no, does it means you hate muslims? I'm so sorry to hear such a degraded thing from you...

[@itsnits11]

Agreed... this type of thinking again plays into the hands of outsiders who want to call Hindus dirty and poor... Wrong justifications like these just de-mean our scriptures more... A Hindu temple has water fountains / taps to cleanse our feet... also, at home, we won't go near our gods without taking a bath... Our mothers told us to clean our house because goddess Laxmi likes a clean and "Prasanna" household... Also, to his point about Perma-cold countries and Singapore, if rain and snow was enough to wash everything and cleanse everything, then we have monsoons too... what stopped us from washing everything in those 4 months? If there are good things to learn from westerners, like having a proper cleanliness infrastructure and discipline, then let's try to learn that too...

[@abhi2110ful]

Indeed! a non-sensical example. How can cleanliness & hospitality be co-related?!!. Since we feel responsible to keep our homes clean, why can't we do the same for public places/ transports as well. Also, who would finally be cleaning that garbage and filth in the trains - (don't we know that) :/

[@sachindivakar632]

विद्यारण्य ऋषी

[@user-kh3vh8kw1f]

ऋषी का कतई मतलब नही है सन्यासी नही होता है क्या वशिष्ठ ऋषी अविवाहीत थे तो वशिष्ठ ऋषी के सौ पुत्र कैसे थे

[@vinodkumarjain3957]

🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

[@mpluspoint]

Murari bapu is now islamist..who say krishna was adharma.

[@KannapiranArjunan-vm2rq]

VEDIC HINDUISM IS BARBARIC AND INHUMANE.. Read STUPID SANATANA VEDIC MORONISM AND injustices before talking. SHAME AND CRUEL. 1. "sathi" girls will be burnt alive when husbands dies..horrible culture. 2. "Baliya vivagh" a girl get married at 8 or 10 and if the BOY husband dies at 12 age, the girl will be tonsured and humiliated as widow and her life doomed..sometime such girls were donated to temples.. devapirar or dasi for abuses...shame culture 3. " Gangapirava" new born babies thrown into River Ganges or ganga river as religious ritual..no where such cruel infanticide other than SANTANA vedic cruelty adharma 4. "KANYA VADHA " KILLING FEMALE CHILDREN..EVEN ANIMALS WONT DO IT BUT VEDIC SANATANIST PRACTISED IT. 5. "NARA VADHA" HUMAN SACRIFICE! KILLING PREGNANT LADIES OR CHILDREN TO PLEASE GODS...NO SANE PERSON WILL DO SUCH VEDIC SANTANA barbaric PRACTICE 6.in Kerala Sambandham was a concubinage system primarily followed by the Nairs and Ambalavasi with Namboothiri in what is the present-day Indian state of Kerala. The honey moon of newly wed girls must be with nambudri brahmin priests not with husbands..vedic Santana prostitution.. 7. Untouchability..hard working low income people are low castes and they shoud not enter temples, even PRESIDENT of INDIA a well respected hindu was not permitted to enter a temple in north India. Some castes were not allowed to comeout during daytime because they are not be seen by highcastes..others cannot walk in agraharam brahmin street..only british and social reformist like Periyar changed that barbaric sanatana practices.. 8.In 19th century Travancore lower-caste women were not allowed to wear clothes that covered their breasts. They had to pay a tax called breast tax to the travancore officials if they wished to cover their breasts. SANTANA ADHARMA AND VEDIC STUPIDTIES ARE MORE AND MORE CANNOT BE POSTED HERE..

[@bhatsarvesh]

Everything was good till he mentioned Murari bapu.. i was like what ????

[@dontwannabefound]

What’s wrong with morari Bapu? He’s trying to get people to listen to something spiritual than polluting their consciousness with doom scrolling news.

[@lovkeshjangra674]

Now I get it ..you don't know a bit of science

[@koulmeadi]

Rudali 🤣

[@greatbalance]

Again, he is full of errors. He says the equivalent of 'intellectual' is 'rishi', which I don't think is very accurate. A more appropriate word for 'rishi' is 'seer', one who 'sees' what others don't. In fact, Yaska's Nirukta defines rishi as: 'rishirdarshanat', he is called a rishi because he has had a vision. This vision is beyond the intellect, and is life-transforming. So a rishi is even above and beyond an intellectual. Second, he says that rishis were sannyasis. Wrong again. 'Sannyasi' is the technical name for a person who has completely renounced family and personal social life. However, throughout our history, we have had rishis who were married and had children and large ashrams with students and disciples. This didn't make them any less great. In fact, rishis have been able to provide laws because even being in society, they were above it. Third, he says Madhvacharya wrote Sarvadarshanasangraha. This is wrong. It was Madhavacharya. Details are important.

[@thedescanteer]

+greatbalance So Madhvacharya and Madhavacharya are two different individuals?

[@MySaaaas]

+Sayantan Bhowmik Madhavaacharya: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidyaranya Madhvaachaarya: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhvacharya

[@Blizzardkicks1]

+greatbalance He already asked not to try and translate every sanskrit term as it may not cover the term properly. Aatma is not soul, Dharma is not religion, Rishi is not Seer

[@whitershadeofpale39]

+greatbalance bus buraii nikalte rehna..........acchi baat mat seekhna

[@Blizzardkicks1]

Bharti Pant Gahtori Right. But isne koi galti bhi nahi nikali kapoor sir ki.... bechara bas translation me ulajh ke rah gaya.

[@greatbalance]

He is not fully knowledgeable about the traditional classification of mind. The proper technical term is "antahkarana" "the inner organ". It expresses itself in 4 modes - Manas, Chittam, Buddhi and Viveka. Please first learn accurately before presenting in front of an audience. This tendency of Indians to accept and work with blurred, imprecise and diluted facts is a bad one and has been the cause of our downfall - this "chalta hai" attitude. Ancient Indians were great because they were precise and accurate in their expression and communication.

[@47atim]

+greatbalance IT IS MANO , BUDDHI CHITTA , AHAMKAR, THE FOUR SEGMENT OF THAT SAME MIND

[@mallickm6949]

Again Rudali..

[@ratansuradkar7698]

Tu to pakka brahmanvadi hai!

[@kamalkapoor2170]

आप पक्का कम पढ़ालिखा और कम समझदार हो।

[@kamalkapoor2170]

आप पक्का दिमाग से ........हो और रविशकुमार का रूदाली गान सुनो।

[@asmitaapardesi405]

Pseudo intellectual. Kapil Kapoor: One of the highly communalised political propagator in the guise of 'intellectual'. Doing ideological pimping for Sangh parivar. Not far away from the standard of Delhi riot-organiser Kapil Mishra.

[@ankithooda1536]

He is a good teacher. Will hear him more.