Root of all Problems || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The myth of the happy family || Acharya Prashant, in conversation (2021)

Transcript

00:00Have you suffered from a terminal illness?

00:03Have you suffered from an alien invasion?

00:06What is it that the bulk of the Earth's population really suffers from?

00:12We don't suffer because the neighboring country has launched a nuclear-tipped missile, right?

00:19So the root of the problem there is the very way our relationships are defined in the society, right?

00:28The images that a woman carries about herself, about family, about having kids,

00:36about the very purpose of life, about the man in her life, and vice versa.

00:40We do not address these.

00:42We think that these issues are not very important,

00:45so we talk of climate change, we talk of disarmament, we talk of colonizing Mars.