South Asian Parents || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Just by the dint of becoming a father or a mother, you don't get qualified to render advice.

00:07And it's not even advice often.

00:10It becomes, in India especially, in the global south actually,

00:13it takes the shape of compulsory directions.

00:16That too, with a strong emotional undertone.

00:19If you don't do what you are wanted to do, then there is emotional disruption.

00:23You must know first of all.

00:25You must learn from all your well-wishers.

00:27Yes, parents might be well-wishers, but there have been several others.

00:31Let there be an affinity beyond blood with the giants of mankind.

00:36It was not for nothing that they left behind their love, their advice for you.

00:41These are precious gifts.

00:42Accept them.