These are elitist ramblings of someone who is intoxicated with his own intellectualism. I did not listen beyond four minutes, because it was unbearable to listen to so much nonsense. He diverges the question to rant about how his sanitized neo-vedantic Hinduism is superior to the mundane beliefs of the uneducated Hindu masses.
The questioner is a dishonest individual who is trying to make Hinduism look bad. You can't honestly believe that if Hindus stopped spending money on religious pursuits, poverty will be eliminated from India and the rest of the world. The question is only raised to make Hindus feel guilty about religion.
If I spend money on flowers and paraphernalia for worship, this fool asks me what's wrong with me knowing that some beggar is starving on the streets. But where is he questioning the intentions of the person who shops for the latest smartphone and designer jeans? Can you not see the double standards here?
How much money is paid to soccer players? Is this fool going to confront the FIFA? Is he going to confront the catholic church? Is he going to confront banks, governments and insurance companies? No, he won't. But he felt the need to belittle Hinduism and Hindus suck it up like candy, responding with an apologetic attitude. Like some sort of fetish.
What has gone wrong with Hinduism is exactly people like this Jay Lakhani who will say anything to please Sahib Ji, as he does here:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/jan/18/hindu-open-air-cremation
Yes, that's right. Your hero of the day is opposed to a Hindu's right to perform open air cremations. He is so ashamed of this custom that he wants the law to forbid it. And we should export his ideology back to India, nonetheless.
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