Origins of Human Suffering || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Every child you see that is born is born with a lot of inner ignorance.

00:06Think of a newborn child. Keep aside the fact that it looks cute and all.

00:10How intelligent is it at that moment?

00:13Can it make sense of what's going on?

00:16Does it know what is right, what is wrong, what is useful, what is not?

00:19Is it free and independent or is it totally dependent on others?

00:23Does it have language, knowledge, nothing at all?

00:26Wisdom, no, but it certainly has hunger, thirst, even anger and envy, fear, a lot of it.

00:34And misery, immeasurable, all the time wailing.

00:37Ask mothers, the kid is crying all the time.

00:40That's how we are born, with a lot of misery, lot of ignorance.

00:45So that's the reason why all the things that are related to ignorance, they keep continuing.

00:50Some part of us supports them because the ignorance that was there in the kid continues lifelong in the adult.