Why do Innocent People Suffer? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Making Sense of Suffering and Finding Inner Strength || Acharya Prashant (2020)

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00:00Why do innocent people suffer?

00:02The assumption is that being a person, you can still be innocent.

00:07That there is something called an innocent person, Vikram.

00:10There is nothing called an innocent person.

00:12To be innocent is to be free of all blemishes, bondages.

00:18To be innocent.

00:19Innocence is something very rare and very expensive.

00:23Innocence is not something that Prakriti distributes freely.

00:27It's just that we use the word innocence in a very loose and casual way.

00:32So our language tricks us into believing as if innocence is something common and widespread

00:38and usual.

00:39It is not.

00:40You are not innocent.

00:41The ones who did attain to innocence, they didn't quite suffer.