Desire of a Son? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00The fellow has been told that having a boy is very important.

00:04Unless you have a son, the family is incomplete.

00:07And if you don't have a son, then your ghost will keep roaming about.

00:10Because it is the son who has to perform the final rites when the father is gone.

00:15So the father is advent, I want a son.

00:17So one after the other, five daughters are born.

00:20And the father is still waiting for a son and ultimately the sixth one is a son.

00:23Now the son is here, alright, the father can die in peace.

00:26But how will he live in peace?

00:28He has to feed these six.

00:30And feeding these six is an economic project.

00:34Because you are spiritually bankrupt, therefore you get into economic trouble.

00:38And then you say, oh the country is so bad and the government is doing nothing for me.

00:43Why did you produce these many?

00:45Now you have great financial hardships.

00:47Don't you want to blame your financial hardships for your spiritual illiteracy?

00:52It is your spiritual illiteracy that leads to all kinds of financial, economic, worldly troubles.

00:58We do not realize that.