Living by Choice or Chance? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Grandpa says teenagers must not date || Acharya Prashant, at Mithibai College, Mumbai (2022)

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00:00According to Indian society, it is not permissible for teenagers to date.

00:04What's the population of this planet?

00:06Which is 800 crore people.

00:08Now tell me how do you define your society and why must you be constrained by 800,

00:14when you have 800 crore options available.

00:18Look at the kind of opportunity you are utilizing.

00:21How many are our contacts?

00:23We said 800 approximately, right?

00:25And what's the population of the planet?

00:27800 crores.

00:29So the opportunity we are utilizing is one in a crore.

00:32Is that not a huge waste to keep everybody but one away in a crore?

00:39You are given one crore options, but you stuck to just one of them and that one of them,

00:46even that one is not your choice.

00:48It is chance.

00:50The people you know of, how many of them are with you by your choice, your volition?

00:55Please tell me.