Parental Love || Acharya Prashant

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00:00 We tell ourselves stories. So, a story for example says, "Parents love their kids".

00:05 Now come on, love is a sacred word. Love is not something that you can just so easily get by virtue of having a body.

00:13 We have characters in the movies uttering absolutely stupid dialogues with great conviction.

00:20 Amitabh Bachchan spewing continuous nonsense in some family blockbuster.

00:24 That's the dream figure every North Indian patriarch wants to be.

00:30 Somebody whose authority is unquestionable.

00:33 He just gets up from the inherited family chair and declares the heavenly truth.

00:39 And the wife and the kids and the daughter-in-laws especially, they roll at his feet.

00:44 Right? Don't you get impressed?

00:46 If someone is appearing to carry a certain authority over us, surely we are vesting him with that authority.

00:53 Surely that is our own choice to empower that person with that kind of authority.