Becoming a parent involves great responsibility || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Kids carrying parents' ambitions || Acharya Prashant, with BITS Hyderabad (2022)

Transcript

00:00If killing someone is a crime, I call it a deeper crime.

00:05To unconsciously give birth when you kill someone,

00:09you are punished because it is an act in deep unconsciousness.

00:13But then reproduction too happens in deep unconsciousness.

00:18It is a tremendously important thing to be a parent.

00:21It cannot be taken casually.

00:23If a person has some love, he or she will ask himself a thousand times,

00:28am I ready to be a parent?

00:29And if I am going to be a parent,

00:31am I putting enough time, energy, attention into the process of preparation?

00:36Even after the kid has come, do I realize the gravity of my responsibility?

00:41Because the kid does not get grown up in a day.

00:44It takes almost two decades before you can call a human being a grown-up thing.