Full Video: The myth of the child’s innocence || Acharya Prashant (2018)
Link: https://youtu.be/NMBvE_EsjEc?si=1jBAbJgxoghhL4LO
Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 19.09.2018, Advait BodhSthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
What is innocence?
How to take care of children?
What is meant by 'the myth of the child's innocence?'
How to understand child's psychology?
Why do babies appear cute?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Link: https://youtu.be/NMBvE_EsjEc?si=1jBAbJgxoghhL4LO
Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 19.09.2018, Advait BodhSthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
What is innocence?
How to take care of children?
What is meant by 'the myth of the child's innocence?'
How to understand child's psychology?
Why do babies appear cute?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .
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00:00There is another reason why kids appear so fascinating to us, it's the hormones.
00:13It's not only the human kid, the babies of even animals appear so cute.
00:22That's a ploy of Prakriti.
00:27Babies have to appear cute otherwise they are so defenseless that they would be smashed.
00:35Babies must appear cute.
00:39That does not mean that babies have something extraordinary in them.
00:43It's just that you are conditioned to find any baby cute.
00:49The baby of a pig is cute, the baby of a monkey is cute.
00:54Even little snakes you don't feel like killing.
00:58If you come across a full grown cobra, then in fear or in self-defense or in just madness
01:08you may want to kill it.
01:11But if you come across a little snakelet just emerging from the egg, you may even put it
01:18on your palm and say, oh see how nice, how cute.
01:22What do you want baby?
01:26Prakriti does it so that the snake species may survive.
01:37But this is something that we do not understand and regrettably I say that most women do not
01:44understand.
01:45They have such fascination for babies that for the sake of babies they often destroy
01:53all their life.
02:02I am not saying that men do not have that fascination.
02:06Many men also have that fascination.
02:12It doesn't matter whether it's a man or a woman.
02:16It's your responsibility to understand where that fascination is coming from.
02:23Biological, sexual.
02:29Obviously if you want to have kids, then sex becomes legitimized.
02:33Not only legitimized, sex then becomes venerable.
02:39So many strands of thought, so many religious schools have emphasized that the only rightful
02:50purpose of sex is procreation.
02:56So if you want procreation, then sex is okay.
03:01Get out of this obsession with kids.
03:08The more you obsess with kids, the more you show how body-centered, egg-centered and prakriti-centered
03:20you are.
03:26This entire planet is suffering because of man's obsession with kids.
03:41You produce kids as if the kid would forever remain a kid.
03:45You totally forget that the kid would soon, very very soon be a fully grown-up individual.
03:58But for 3 years of kuchiku, you burden the planet with 100 years of the excreta of that
04:08full-grown individual.
04:13For how many years do you get to kuchiku the kid?
04:163 years.
04:18And for how many years does that kid destroy the planet?
04:21100 years.
04:23You do not see that.
04:27After 3 years, do you pack the kid back and parcel it back to your uterus?
04:37After 3 years, you leave the kid upon the world or you say that now I am busy preparing
04:47for the next one.
04:50So this one can now go out and destroy the streets.
05:07It is very strange how religions have often said that it is violence and sinful to kill.
05:21But no one has ever emphasized that there is great violence in procreation.
05:28Today ahimsa consists less of not killing.
05:33Today the greatest act of ahimsa is not to reproduce.
05:43Violence lies less in killing.
05:46Today violence lies much more in giving birth.
05:56But if somebody is assaulting someone, you are quick to deplore.
05:59You say, oh such violence, such violence.
06:04And if you come across a pregnant woman, you suddenly become so decent, so gentle, so accommodating
06:13and so tolerant.
06:32If someone practices black magic, then you say that he is badly conditioned by centuries
06:47of rituals.
06:50If you find somebody practicing black magic, then you are quick to decry.
07:00Incredible rituals.
07:06And how old is this ritual of procreation, I ask you.
07:14And why must this continue as a ritual?
07:19Why can't there be any wisdom in the decision?
07:24Why must you habitually procreate?
07:30Why must you take it as an obligation to procreate?
07:36Why must you feel that a part of your life remains unfulfilled if you are childless?
07:44Is it not hoodoo and voodoo and black magic to believe so much in maternity and pregnancy
07:50and the fullness of the nest?
07:58But no intellectual would come forward to say that maternity today is mostly an act
08:08of great violence.
08:13We keep on talking of saving life without ever knowing the meaning of life.
08:36There would be a blood donation camp and the hoarding would read, donate blood, save
08:40a life.
08:43And you feel like asking, save what exactly?
08:47Save what?
08:48What do you mean by life?
08:54A breathing mass of flesh, that's life?
09:00What's life?
09:03Something that begins when the child emerges from the body of the mother?
09:12What is life?
09:14Do you really want to save life?
09:19Then first of all learn what life is.
09:25Then you will really be interested in life and much less interested in giving birth.