Students should debate on issues but not take sides, said spiritual leader Jaggi Vasudev at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), while noting that the country has become "ideologically divided" like the US in the past 10 years or so.
He also expressed concern over the cases of suicides among teenagers due to education-related issues and stressed there is a need to revisit education system.
The spiritual leader delivered the Nehru Memorial Lecture at the varsity and spoke about a variety of issues ranging from education, democracy, monogamy and artificial intelligence.
He also paid homage at the Wall Of Heroes at the varsity when he had come, JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar said on Twitter.
In response to a query by a student on how one can remain neutral in JNU, which is a politically vibrant campus, he said, "This has become a phenomenon across the county. If you open your month to say something about the nation they will try to fix you something to some ideology. Inevitably someone is trying to pin you on some board. Unfortunately, this is how you are destroying a democracy."
"What is the point of secret ballot? What is the point of offering a citizen the choice of choosing?"