Kids are so cute but ... || Acharya Prashant (2018)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video:The myth of the child’s innocence || Acharya Prashant (2018) Link: https://youtu.be/NMBvE_EsjEc?feature=shared  Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 19.09.2018, Advait BodhSthal, Greater Noida, India   Context:  ~What is innocence? ~How to take care of children? ~What is meant by 'the myth of the child's innocence?' ~How to understand child's psychology?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .

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00:00 Get out of this obsession with kids.

00:10 The more you obsess with kids, the more you show how body centered, egg centered and prakriti

00:22 centered you are.

00:28 This entire planet is suffering because of man's obsession with kids.

00:43 You produce kids as if the kid would forever remain a kid.

00:48 You totally forget that the kid would soon, very very soon be a fully grown up individual.

01:00 But for three years of kuchiku, you burden the planet with hundred years of the excreta

01:10 of that full grown individual.

01:15 For how many years do you get to kuchiku the kid?

01:19 Three years.

01:20 And for how many years does that kid destroy the planet?

01:24 Hundred years.

01:25 You do not see that.

01:30 After three years, do you pack the kid back and parcel it back to your uterus?

01:39 After three years, you leave the kid upon the world.

01:47 Or you say that now I am busy preparing for the next one.

01:52 So this one can now go out and destroy the streets.

02:10 It is very strange how religions have often said that it is violence and sinful to kill.

02:23 But no one has ever emphasized that there is great violence in procreation.

02:30 Today ahimsa consists less of not killing.

02:36 Today the greatest act of ahimsa is to not to reproduce.

02:45 Violence lies less in killing.

02:49 Today violence lies much more in giving birth.

02:58 But if somebody is assaulting someone, you are quick to deplore.

03:01 You say, oh such violence, such violence.

03:07 And if you come across a pregnant woman, you suddenly become so decent, so gentle, so accommodating

03:15 and so tolerant.

03:35 If someone practices black magic, then you say that he is badly conditioned by centuries

03:49 of rituals.

03:52 If you find somebody practicing black magic, then you are quick to decry.

04:02 Medieval rituals.

04:08 And how old is this ritual of procreation?

04:14 I ask you.

04:16 And why must this continue as a ritual?

04:21 Why can't there be any wisdom in the decision?

04:27 Why must you habitually procreate?

04:32 Why must you take it as an obligation to procreate?

04:38 Why must you feel that a part of your life remains unfulfilled if you are childless?

04:46 Is it not hoodoo and voodoo and black magic to believe so much in maternity and pregnancy

04:52 and the fullness of the nest?

05:00 But no intellectual would come forward to say that maternity today is mostly an act

05:10 of great violence.

05:15 We keep on talking of saving life without ever knowing the meaning of life.

05:38 There would be a blood donation cam and the hoarding would read donate blood, save a life.

05:45 And you feel like asking save what exactly?

05:49 Say what?

05:50 What do you mean by life?

05:56 A breathing mass of flesh that's life.

06:02 What's life?

06:05 Something that begins when the child emerges from the body of the mother.

06:14 What is life?

06:16 Do you really want to save life?

06:21 Then first of all learn what life is.

06:27 Then you will really be interested in life and much less interested in giving birth.

06:34 [Music]

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