The joys of motherhood || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Think of the life of a new mother, all the time they have to just look after the kid and they cannot read, they cannot take care of themselves.

00:08If you are a sports person, your sports are gone.

00:11If you are a traveler, you cannot travel anymore.

00:14You cannot even visit the cinema halls.

00:17You cannot go shopping.

00:18You cannot even sleep with abandon.

00:21All the time you have to be tuned in.

00:23Can you go and sit in a library and spend dedicated 8 hours there?

00:27What about your dance classes?

00:29What happened to your swimming schedule?

00:31What happened to your tennis matches?

00:33You are so fond of challenging everybody around.

00:36And you used to sit and continuously think and meditate on the great questions of life.

00:42Those moments used to be your internal bread and butter.

00:46Now can you spend those peaceful moments in quietness and solitude?

00:51Can you do that?

00:52Then why are you so eager to pop a baby?