Parents' Dreams in Children || Acharya Prashant, with BITS Hyderabad (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 The travesties, you become parents far far before you have any mental maturity. Mental

00:18 maturity is something most people do not have even till their last breath. But physical

00:23 maturity comes so early. I was looking at the rabbits, you know, by the time they are

00:35 few months of age, they are ready to reproduce. It hits you there, oh just a few months old

00:45 and it is ready to reproduce. But the same thing happens with humans. 18 years of age,

00:54 20, 25, 13 or 14, you are ready to reproduce. And you have no sense of the world, no wisdom,

01:10 no maturity at all. And you have brought a baby to this world and you have become its

01:18 custodian, its guardian, its god. What else will you do? You could never make it to an

01:29 engineering college. Now you want the kid to learn coding right from age 6. You never

01:40 had the guts to speak straight even to your grandfather. So now you have put the kid in

01:49 some public speaking class. This is the most wronged community, a community most deeply

02:09 exploited, the community of children. And we do not talk of this continuous holocaust.

02:31 It isn't an event in history. It is a continuity so directly present, it becomes inconspicuous.

02:54 You fail to see it exactly because it is everywhere. Yes, I do understand that I might not be able

03:12 to make a huge change in his life. But can you just give me some things that I can put

03:17 forward to them because it is happening in my family and I cannot be a…

03:24 Doing that already, you see it has to be addressed by addressing the most fundamental questions

03:34 of life. For example, when I am speaking on the importance of work or on the importance

03:43 of relationships, love or even on the topic of let us say nationalism, patriotism, in

03:52 some way I am enabling the parent to take better decisions for the kids because it is

04:00 lack of wisdom that makes parents act so foolishly with regards to their kids. So wisdom from

04:10 any source, in any context is going to be useful. Parents need to be torn away from

04:21 their usual preoccupations. Even an hour daily to wisdom literature or to wise company would

04:33 help them raise the kid in a much better way. Otherwise the kid is just like animals being

04:51 transported to the slaughter factory. Parents need to be trained in spirituality. If you

05:05 want me to be blunt, this is the solution. This alone is the solution. Had we been a

05:14 conscious society, only very spiritual people would have had the right to reproduce because

05:28 undeserved reproduction is a crime against the one you have given birth to. If killing

05:39 someone is a crime, I call it a deeper crime to unconsciously give birth. When you kill

05:57 someone, you are punished because it is an act in deep unconsciousness, right? But then

06:08 reproduction too happens in deep unconsciousness. Why must people not be punished for having

06:17 babies? It is a tremendously important thing to be a parent. It cannot be taken casually.

06:34 If a person has some love, he or she will ask himself a thousand times, "Am I ready

06:40 to be a parent? And if I am going to be a parent, am I putting enough time, energy,

06:47 attention into the process of preparation? Even after the kid has come, do I realize

07:05 the gravity of my responsibility?" Because the kid does not get grown up in a day. It

07:17 takes almost two decades before you can call a human being a grown up thing. So the parent's

07:29 education has to be continuous. Is the parent up to it? Or is he using the kid just as a

07:40 plaything, a toy, a product of a casual moment? Something to show off to others like my kid

07:56 has to show off an ornament, a necklace, a new ring, a new pair of shoes?

08:12 Begin by talking. Initiate a discussion. Depth of any kind is good. Let them think deeply

08:29 over these things. Let them think deeply about anything. It's not that they are being violent

08:39 or ignorant only towards their kids. They are violent and ignorant towards everything

08:44 in the world. So let the discussion start from anywhere. It would be useful.

08:52 Yes, okay. Now I do, I'll just show them the recording as well of this session and

09:10 the exact question I asked. I do think that will be a bit more useful.

09:16 I am not very sure whether this is the right thing to begin with. My words are usually

09:26 too much for a beginner. They will react and that reaction will further inhibit them from

09:38 learning. So you need to probably begin on your own. At some point when you perceive

09:48 a ripeness, then maybe you can introduce me to them.

09:53 [Music]

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