The Violence of Giving Birth || Acharya Prashant (2018)

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00:00And there is another reason why kids appear so fascinating to us, it's the hormones.

00:08It's not only the human kid.

00:11The babies of even animals appear so cute.

00:17That's a ploy of Prakriti.

00:21Babies have to appear cute otherwise they are so defenseless that they would be smashed.

00:30Babies must appear cute.

00:34That does not mean that babies have something extraordinary in them.

00:38It's just that you are conditioned to find any baby cute.

00:44The baby of a pig is cute.

00:45The baby of a monkey is cute.

00:49Even little snakes you don't feel like killing.

00:52If you come across a full grown cobra then in fear or in self defense or in just madness

01:03you may want to kill it.

01:06But if you come across a little snakelet just emerging from the egg you may even put it on

01:13your palm and say oh you see how nice how cute.

01:17What do you phone baby?

01:20Prakriti does it so that the snake species may survive.

01:32But this is something that we do not understand.

01:36And regrettably I say that most women do not understand.

01:40They have such fascination for babies that for the sake of babies they often destroy all

01:48their life.

01:56I am not saying that men do not have that fascination.

02:01Many men also have that fascination little babies.

02:07It does not matter whether it is a man or a woman.

02:09It is your responsibility to understand where that fascination is coming from.

02:18Get out of this obsession with kids.

02:26The more you obsess with kids the more you show how body centered, egg centered and Prakriti

02:37centered you are.

02:44This entire planet is suffering because of man's obsession with kids.

02:59You produce kids as if the kid would forever remain a kid.

03:03You totally forget that the kid would soon, very very soon be a fully grown up individual.

03:16But for three years of Kuchiku you burden the planet with hundred years of the excreta of

03:26that full grown individual.

03:30For how many years do you get to Kuchiku the kid?

03:34Three years.

03:36And for how many years does that kid destroy the planet?

03:39Hundred years.

03:41You do not see that.

03:45After three years do you pack the kid back and parcel it back to your uterus?

03:54After three years you leave the kid upon the world.

04:03Or you say that now I am busy preparing for the next one.

04:08So this one can now go out and destroy the streets.

04:26It is very strange how religions have often said that it is violence and sinful to kill.

04:37But no one has ever emphasized that there is great violence in procreation.

04:45Today ahinsa consists less of not killing.

04:51Today the greatest act of ahinsa is to not to reproduce.

05:01Violence lies less in killing.

05:04Today violence lies much more in giving birth.

05:10But if somebody is assaulting someone you are quick to deplore.

05:17You say oh such violence such violence.

05:22And if you come across a pregnant woman you suddenly become so decent so gentle so accommodating

05:31and so tolerant.

05:50If someone practices black magic then you say that he is you know badly conditioned by

06:05centuries of rituals right?

06:08If you find somebody practicing black magic then you are quick to decry.

06:17Medieval rituals.

06:24And how old is this ritual of procreation I ask you?

06:32And why must this continue as a ritual?

06:36Why can't there be any wisdom in the decision?

06:42Why must you habitually procreate?

06:48Why must you take it as an obligation to procreate?

06:53Why must you feel that a part of your life remains unfulfilled if you are childless?

07:01Is it not hoodoo and voodoo and black magic to believe so much in maternity and pregnancy and

07:09the fullness of the nest?

07:16But no intellectual would come forward to say that maternity today is mostly an act of

07:26great violence.

07:28great violence.

07:35We keep on talking of saving life without ever knowing the meaning of life.

07:50There would be a blood donation camp and the holding would read donate blood save a life.

08:01And you feel like asking save what exactly?

08:05Save what?

08:06What do you mean by life?

08:12A breathing mass of flesh, that's life.

08:17What's life?

08:21Something that begins when the child emerges from the body of the mother.

08:30What is life?

08:32Do you really want to save life?

08:36Then first of all, learn what life is.

08:43Then you will really be interested in life and much less interested in giving birth.

08:50To be continued...

09:01To be continued...

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